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Re:Nelson testifies cost-plus contracts have been a “plague”... by krapht on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @06:28PM (#31266684)
You must be somebody who's never had to remove an underperforming colleague on a public project.

What happens is that they get promoted to another team, or put on a project that has absolutely no future, and everyone knows it.

Why is it difficult to remove people? Because in the old days, newly elected executives would clear out the civil service and hire or contract with people that supported their election campaign.

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Re:Nelson testifies cost-plus contracts have been a “plague”... by ClumsyPilot on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @09:01PM (#31268072)
Underperforming colleague is a different problem - the cost differences we are talking about here are not 50%, they are 5X, those only come from structural problems, not 'this one guy only works 5 hours a day"
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