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You don't want to know how many of your taxpayer dollars went to pay me for helping to shepherd purchase orders through the JPL bureaucracy. :-(
by js2 9y ago
You don't want to know how many of your taxpayer dollars went to pay me for helping to shepherd purchase orders through the JPL bureaucracy.
:-(
- maxxxxx 9y agoWorking the bureaucracy is often much more difficult than the engineering part. In my company the tech leads spend more on figuring out what documentation to produce and how to store it than either writing documentation or producing software.
- js2 9y agoIt was the OP who wrote he "spent the next three years getting paid for doing nothing, and getting pretty depressed about it." I would feel all the worse knowing my pay was taxpayer funded.
- gadders 9y agoThat's why you have project managers. They (or at least good ones) handle the process and the politics and clearing the runway for the devs to do what they are good at.
- antonvs 9y agoThe same thing happens in most big organizations, government or not.