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Sounds like bad leadership on the part of your project. To outsiders that don’t understand the details why fire people before the actual budget cuts?
by mulmen 2y ago
Sounds like bad leadership on the part of your project. To outsiders that don’t understand the details why fire people before the actual budget cuts?
- _yb2s 2y agoIt was the policy of the granting federal agency- it was not our choice, we had to immediately start operating on the president's proposed low budget in case it were to pass, rather than spend money that might never exist. This happened because Trump's administration essentially copy and pasted Heritage Foundation materials rather than carefully think through a realistic budget.
- llamaimperative 2y agoHere’s another example: would you start building a house today knowing the price of every input material might jump 20% to 200%?
- _yb2s 2y agoIt's even worse than that: it's more like buying unrefundable materials to build a house today on an account/invoice, knowing you will likely be unemployed before the bill comes due, but after the materials are delivered. You're spending money up front that you don't have, and may never have. If you spend full budget for the first half of the fiscal year, but a final budget gets passed later that cuts your budget in half- you get no remaining money for the year, and then end up firing everyone, instead of half. This is why the federal agencies have the policy of immediately acting on the lowest proposed budget, instead of waiting to see what happens.