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I have known a few people working in IT in government in Australia and it sounds like absolute hell. It takes a special kind of person to work in government. Yo
by SilverRed 6y ago
I have known a few people working in IT in government in Australia and it sounds like absolute hell. It takes a special kind of person to work in government. You either have to be extremely incompetent to the point you cant even tell that things around you are a disaster, or you have to not give a shit to the point where waiting a month for someone to press a button does not bother you and you are only focused on what you will be doing when you get home at the end of the day.
This one guy I knew told me that he had seen meetings dedicated to working out how they could spend money since they hadn't spent the whole budget yet. Services run over hundreds of servers when it could be done in one just to keep the whole team of system admins employed.
Government departments are filled with bloat to a level you wouldn't believe.
- Cederfjard 6y ago> meetings dedicated to working out how they could spend money since they hadn't spent the whole budget yet I think this is fairly common in government outside of Australia as well. With the budget it’s use it or lose it, so you better find ways to spend it, or you’ll have less margin next year when you might actually need it.
- random5634 6y agoI know about this - it’s actually worse and very serious if you underspend. Almost all the higher ups are paid out of budgets based on how much you spend- so the supervising agency gets their 15 percent admin fee, your managers are part of the indirect cost pool etc. If you spend 50% of budget it is game over upstairs. And you lose the money at year end, and future allocation is dropped. And all the budgets in long chain up get messed up. Almost nothing gets more attention and priority than this.