What’s it like hauling nuclear weapons across the country?

Re:What’s it like hauling nuclear weapons across the country? by wolverine876 on Monday July 19, 2021 @06:44PM (#27888143)

> Nobody does it for the money. Everyone does it for the bennies.

Is that based on experience?

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Re:What’s it like hauling nuclear weapons across the country? by throwaway0a5e on Monday July 19, 2021 @06:49PM (#27888185)

>Is that based on experience

Yeah pretty much. Ask any government worker why they're still working for the government and they'll tell you something about benefits and stability.

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Re:What’s it like hauling nuclear weapons across the country? by wolverine876 on Monday July 19, 2021 @06:56PM (#27888239)

Government workers I know seem to primarily credit reasonable hours (e.g., government coders don't get 100+ hour weeks; they go home at 5) and decent management (i.e., actual professional management, not screaming morons), but certainly stability and benefits too.

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Re:What’s it like hauling nuclear weapons across the country? by MisterBastahrd on Monday July 19, 2021 @07:26PM (#27888437)

Every government dev I know who isn't a manager will strongly disagree with the "professional management" take. People generally don't become managers of government dev shops because they're great at managing people. They become managers because they're what's left after everyone else has gone on to do other things.

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Re:What’s it like hauling nuclear weapons across the country? by vmception on Monday July 19, 2021 @10:58PM (#27889631)

+1 to this

Public sector is serious brain drain

The counterpoints are people so uninspired and risk averse that it is the same as brain drain, and a subset of them are the people that began with a “serving the public” ideal and accidentally accumulated too many obligations by the time they figured out they wanted to live in a nicer neighborhood or send their children to a good college

The good talent are people that took a plea deal for non prosecution that included public service

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Re:What’s it like hauling nuclear weapons across the country? by wolverine876 on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @04:17PM (#27898729)

Beyond insulting intelligent, motivated, highly capable people I know in public service, do you have a basis for that?

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Re:What’s it like hauling nuclear weapons across the country? by KirillPanov on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @03:13AM (#27890879)

> The good talent are people that took a plea deal for non prosecution that included public service

Wait, wat? This is a thing? Did you mean "community service" instead of "public service"? Or do you mean people like Frank Abagnale?

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