Re:The Difficulties of SAML Single Logout
by Cederfjard on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @04:23AM
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> meetings dedicated to working out how they could spend money since they hadn't spent the whole budget yet
I think this is fairly common in government outside of Australia as well. With the budget it’s use it or lose it, so you better find ways to spend it, or you’ll have less margin next year when you might actually need it.
Re:The Difficulties of SAML Single Logout
by random5634 on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @09:49AM
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I know about this - it’s actually worse and very serious if you underspend.
Almost all the higher ups are paid out of budgets based on how much you spend- so the supervising agency gets their 15 percent admin fee, your managers are part of the indirect cost pool etc.
If you spend 50% of budget it is game over upstairs. And you lose the money at year end, and future allocation is dropped. And all the budgets in long chain up get messed up. Almost nothing gets more attention and priority than this.
This one guy I knew told me that he had seen meetings dedicated to working out how they could spend money since they hadn't spent the whole budget yet. Services run over hundreds of servers when it could be done in one just to keep the whole team of system admins employed.
Government departments are filled with bloat to a level you wouldn't believe.