Comment by arealaccount
20 hours ago
Many of the people they cut were able to negotiate a full year severance, then were hired back as contractors effectively earning double pay.
20 hours ago
Many of the people they cut were able to negotiate a full year severance, then were hired back as contractors effectively earning double pay.
consulting company i work at hired a grip of these people for construction and public land projects. struggle with guilt that our success is the result of capitalizing on incompetence and lies
we certainly charge at least 3x cost for gov to employ them on top of whatever severance they might have received. the work still needs to be done and specific people know how to do it. sort of becoming a staffing agency because theres so much profit in it. makes my stomach sick writing this out
If you're seeing that much money, imagine how much is flowing to the big preexisting staffing firms...
Almost enough to make you think that gutting then offering employees back at higher cost and pocketing part of the difference was the goal.
McKinsey and other consulting firms are built on this principle. Lobby for “retiring” or deskilling people in organisation and then replace them with your own contractors once problems arise.
Good for them.
Not so good for taxpayers.
Basically irrelevant to taxpayers. Their salaries or triple their salaries will add up to a difference of a couple dollars on the average tax bill. Doge didn't actually cut any of the big expenses. It was only intended to cut the effective things.
It was never about saving money for the tax payers! They voted for this.
Meh, false; the cost of the disruption will almost certainly be comparable, if not outweigh, the money paid.
Which is also them
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They will also be paying somewhere around 50k a year soon for heath insurance because contractors don't get benefits. Fun!
I work in state government and while contractors don’t get benefits that FTEs receive, they are usually paid close to double in salary.