Comment by whimsicalism
3 hours ago
I worked in the federal government once. Unfortunately, it really is that bad. They took weeks-month just to provision me a laptop.
3 hours ago
I worked in the federal government once. Unfortunately, it really is that bad. They took weeks-month just to provision me a laptop.
That happens at literally every company I contract with (that requires I use their equipment). At my current gig I couldn't start until they had a laptop for me, and then it took another month to access to the code. Every year they auto delete contractor credentials, unless the director in charge of your contract says no. One year he missed the email and I found myself without access to the code for days while I was reinstated. Only I wasn't completely reinstated, I had been deleted from one of their systems, so I couldn't log into some systems for multiple weeks, until I got a new PKIM card, since a new card was the only way to add credentials to the right system.
So please, it's never been accurate to say the government is mismanaged while corporations aren't. The same things happens in bureaucracies of similar size.
I work in a bureaucracy of similar size and could never imagine something like that happening where I work.
Corporations might be mismanaged, but ultimately they have a variety of price signals they must be responsive to or die. No such thing among the feds and it shows.