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I can kinda sympathize with the guy, as I got fucked over in Defense contracting in a not-dissimilar fashion a lifetime ago. These companies reel you in with d

I can kinda sympathize with the guy, as I got fucked over in Defense contracting in a not-dissimilar fashion a lifetime ago. These companies reel you in with decently-sized (or even outrageously-large) pay packages and promises of doing “good work”, bleed you of your energy and time for their profits, then shove you out the door and blame you for anything that went wrong (especially if you try to act honestly and report wrongdoing - that’s a one-way ticket out the fucking door and into blackball territory). Nobody should be doing work for these scumbags, but people will always fall for their spiels and grifts, unfortunately, out of some naive sense of “doing good” or “getting the bad guys”. It’s always just “leopards ate my face”, though.

cindyllm 1y ago
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spelk 1y ago
Enlist and get your top secret clearance managing LANs and teaching officers how to add images into PowerPoints, they said. You’ll never be unemployed. Then you realize the “job” mostly involves being a disposable cog in some ex-colonel’s endless PowerPoint war. Every meeting feels like a high-stakes reenactment of “Yes, sir,” where accountability is optional and speaking up is career suicide. Billion-dollar mistakes are brushed off as “lessons learned,” while you get a lecture about integrity. It’s the world’s most expensive game of “the emperor has no clothes,” except everyone’s wearing lanyards and classified guilt.