I've worked onsite at a federal customer as a contractor (software developer). There appears to have been a big push over the last few years to replace contrac

I've worked onsite at a federal customer as a contractor (software developer). There appears to have been a big push over the last few years to replace contract sysadmins with civil servants (wonder why). So all of the good ones left for better paying jobs elsewhere, while the slugs converted into government employees. At first I thought the sysadmins were deliberately slow-rolling all of my requests, many of which amounted to running a single UNIX command... turns out they honestly didn't know what they were doing (I asked you to fix the permissions on this directory - 6 weeks ago). We've gone from: Me: Can I have sudo privileges so I don't have to bother you? Them: No to Me: Can I have sudo priviliges so I can fix it myself? Them: What's soo dough? I'm actually shocked when I encounter a competent sysadmin these days. "Oh, you made it work. You didn't break something else in the process. Wow." but it makes me sad because I know they won't be around long, as some company willing to pay for competent staff will eventually poach them.