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> Can someone please explain to me how this isn't extortion and bribery? Easy: it's part of the "pay per use" idea that a lot of people seem to think that gove
by techsupporter 9y ago
> Can someone please explain to me how this isn't extortion and bribery?
Easy: it's part of the "pay per use" idea that a lot of people seem to think that government should have. Just like express toll lanes or a $7 express bus along side a $3.25 local with three times as many stops, if you want something and don't care how long it takes, choose the low- or no-cost option. If you want it RIGHT DANG NOW, choose the high-cost option.
It's not bribery, it's just business...and people seem to think that government should operate like a business, so we get this fee-for-service setup.
- nickthemagicman 9y agoWell then there should be competition. Lol. We could write software that would probably handle that way more efficiently.
- chillydawg 9y agoAnd it would never get deployed as you'd get union'd into nothingness.
- curiousgal 9y ago>It's just business It would be that if your tax money wasn't already paying for the guy's job. I see it as blatant bribery.
- xapata 9y ago> paying for the guy's job The taxes pay for a certain pace of work. Faster work requires more parallelism (more employees or better software) and thus more taxes.
- dragonwriter 9y agoTax dollars are paying for the regular work on the FIFO queue; satisfying the expedite request without impacting the regular work on the FIFO queue requires additional hours of work to be done in the same time, which costs money that the taxpayers, through representatives, have elected not to pay for. Rather than prohibiting such extra work outright, they permit it to be done, at the requesters expense. It's a two-tiered system that favors those with more resources to expend, but it's not bribery.
- jjeaff 9y agoI'll be very surprised if anyone is actually pulling overtime to get your paperwork done. My guess is they just put it to front of the line and work continues as usual, overtime or not.
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 9y agoEven a business won't allow that. We are not talking about a business or a government agency charging more for expedited service. We are talking about individual employees doing it. You think a company will allow the sysadmin to personally charge people $500 extra to get their work done faster? They would be fired immediately.
- xapata 9y agoBut a sysadmin who frequently upsells customers for a $500 higher-tier service agreement might get a raise. To wit: "Would you like fries with that?"