Dept of Interior handed over to DOGE

[np307]

As opposed to useful waste?

Chickens make useful waste

 

[NR_Hunter]

Have their been any arrests yet due to fraud?

 

[MTGomer]

You should stop using anything MSFT. I used to think the government was inefficient, but MSFT has dominated my job for the last 4 years, and it has completely changed my outlook on what acceptable baseline efficiency is. The metaphor one of their own consultants used was "imagine a wagon slowly rolling across the prairie, it can only go so fast, that is the speed at which a data center is constructed. Now imagine a large herd of riders on horseback, sprinting around it in circles, shooting at each other. Those are the contractors and consultants. Occasionally, they miss each other and hit the wagon, slowing it down for repairs." I tend to think a hurricane is more apt, all of the energy in a hurricane is in the rotational energy, not in the more linear travel path of the eye, same roles as above. Here's an example, one of those riders installed a water service in the way of a cooling water main, because they were trying to go so fast they didn't have time to plan. We had two meetings, with upwards of 20 people, and a cumulative billing rate well in excess of 5k/hr to determine that they refused to move the temp water service and I needed to pay my contractor to work around it. The temp water service would have cost them 3k to move. I paid my contractor 8k for structural shoring to go under it. So someone went too fast and caused a problem, then they spent an obscene amount of time to land the most complicated and expensive solution. That is just one small example from last week.

So you'd better ditch Office and Windows entirely, because if you continue to those those products you are knowingly funding a metric shitton of waste.

I bought a surface that’s been tits up from the start.

The amount of trouble shooting BS they tried to put me through after our IT guy looked at it and said “it’s toast, send it back” was unbelievable.

I probably used a surface’s value worth of time just trying to get it exchanged. Would have been 3 surfaces worth of time to go through their rigmarole

 

[MTGomer]

and the coolest part is that your brand new surface has a one year warranty but if it didn’t work, you get a rebuilt one with a 90 day warranty.

 

[Huntin' Fool]

Been waiting for the arrests of folks cashing 150 year old's SS checks. Trump said there were 20 million.