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CT: What's the deal with those guys in The Pit?

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there is a big difference between spending a lot of money on stuff with perceived consequences (board of directors wanting to juice stock prices, keep wages low, lay-offs, make more money to funnel up, etc) and the fleecing of a government budget/agency. the latter is perceived as harmless and thus ok. "but its my tax dollars" etc.
 
Individually you are talking like 50,000 here, 100,000 there. It’s that the government is fucking massive so it all adds up to a bigger scale than a private company where it also exists. It’s also why the concept of consulting makes no fucking sense, we wasted money to help you determine where we are wasting money when it’s obviously where we waste our money. No I’m not going to stop booking flights the day before for travel I knew I had months ago, let’s slash some worker benefits.
 
DeaconCav06 said:
It’s just a bad system that promotes spending just to guarantee the same amount the next year. Seems like any unused funds could go into a reserve for bigger ticket items and then use a 5 year average of spending to set the budget.
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Maybe this has already been addressed, but, A huge part of the problem with federal budgets is that congress rarely passes an annual budget but instead passes short term continuing resolutions, which means agencies and managers can’t really plan their spending and often operate on austerity. If a budget is passed in June, 8 months into the fiscal year, and less money is allocated than in previous years managers, would have to make up for over-spending in the first 8 months during the last 4 months. Most managers do their best to underspend just in case their allocation is low, but once the full year budget is passed they then spend and spend and spend to catch up. So really the problem is the timing of the allocations.
 
We hired a consultant who told us we needed to:

1. Attract bigger clients.
2. Bill more hours.
3. Hire talented lawyers.
4. Collect more revenue.

Thanks for that.
 
i suspect that if you could put all of the waste from the federal government into one company, you'd have a Fortune 10 company
 
DeaconCav06 said:
We hired a consultant who told us we needed to:

1. Attract bigger clients.
2. Bill more hours.
3. Hire talented lawyers.
4. Collect more revenue.

Thanks for that.
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You see, what we're trying to do is get a feeling for how people spend their time at work so if you would, would you walk us through a typical day, for you?
 
DeacDiggler said:
i suspect that if you could put all of the waste from the federal government into one company, you'd have a Fortune 10 company
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You don’t actually think they spend 20,000 dollars on a hammer.
 
Who would’ve ever thought that ish would’ve had a longer pro career than Teague or Johnson.
 
BarcaDeac said:
let's see what other mid-late 90s movies we can get mako to quote
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ladies and gentlemen of the jury: forget everything you've seen on television and in the movies. There's not going to be any last minute surprise witnesses, nobody's going to break down on the stand with a tearful confession, you're going to be presented with simple facts. Andrew Beckett was fired and you'll two explanations on why he was fired, ours and theirs it's up to you to sit through layer upon layer of truth until you determine for yourself which version sounds the most true. There's certain points I must prove to you: point number one: Andrew Beckett was... is a brilliant lawyer, a great lawyer, point number two: my client afflicted with a disabling disease made the understandable, the personal, and the legal choice to keep the fact of his illness to himself point number three: his employers discovered his illness and ladies and gentlemen the illness I'm referring to is AIDS point number four: they panicked and in their panic they did what most would do which is just get "it" and everybody who has "it" as far as away as possible, the behavior of my client's employers seem reasonable to you, it does to me, after all AIDS is a deadly incurable disease but no matter how you come to judge Charles Wheeler and his partners in ethical and moral and inhuman terms, the fact of the matter is when they fired Andrew Beckett because he has AIDS they broke the law.
 
mako1331 said:
You don’t actually think they spend 20,000 dollars on a hammer.
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I didn’t know that he couldn’t read until today.
 
proud to announce that I'm entering the consulting field

let me know if you want my taeks
 
could absolutely spin my comm PhD into a consulting teambuilding et al. grift tbh
 
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