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> The California High-Speed Rail Authority has long wrestled with its dependence on consultants and outside experts, with a 2018 state audit faulting the agency
by baybal2 6y ago
> The California High-Speed Rail Authority has long wrestled with its dependence on consultants and outside experts, with a 2018 state audit faulting the agency for being overly reliant on these private interests.
This is what I don't like with American big business: everybody hires consultants, who then subcontract consultants, who then subcontract consultants, who then subcontract consultants.
And in the end it comes to nobody knows anything, despite n-times of my annual salary being spent every few weeks.
Where are those experts really, why they are not being hired instead of the type of "experts" whose only competence is to hire another consultant?
- mschuster91 6y ago> Where are those experts really At the bottom of the ladder in the chain. > why they are not being hired instead of the type of "experts" whose only competence is to hire another consultant? Because the actual experts don't have experience in how to properly react to government tenders or the political connections to have tenders written so that only a specific company or two match it, and because public sector HR does not have any way of actually evaluating experts (as the historical knowledge of senior employees all got removed).