Contractor Cuts: Booz, Deloitte, Leidos, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:we are screwed. Our contract is about to expire and were hoping to be renewed. IDK what we are going to do.

Same. And I’m on a long-term, stable contact - it’s just crappy timing. The contract I’m on fills a critical national security gap, and no one in govt or the private sector does it or can/could do it without years and tens of millions of dollars in new investments. The public doesn’t know what my co-workers and I do — they’ve never even heard of us. And that’s a good thing, because our job is to keep them safe and to protect this country, so not knowing about us means we are accomplishing our mission. But we could be gone in a few weeks… we don’t know yet.

Even before reading this post I've been thinking we'll have a terrorist attack on our soil within the next 4 years.

This would not surprise me either. They are making things very difficult for our intelligence agencies to do their jobs.

[Anonymous]

There was an EO a couple of days ago telling all agencies to cut back on all contracts. Are other contracts besides the “big 10” hearing about more stop work orders?

[Anonymous]

Lots of service support contractors are being cut. Deloitte has a lot and also charge heavy overhead.

[Anonymous]

There is a lot of bloat with the support contractors. OSD has 10s of thousands of them and a lot of them are needed as a warm body to increase the head count.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is a lot of bloat with the support contractors. OSD has 10s of thousands of them and a lot of them are needed as a warm body to increase the head count.

That's nice, too bad auditors weren't sent in to actually find this waste.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There was an EO a couple of days ago telling all agencies to cut back on all contracts. Are other contracts besides the “big 10” hearing about more stop work orders?

Yes.

[Anonymous]

I didn't read this entire thread - just hit the highlights. Does no one think a Ketamine addicted South African shouldn't be making these cuts with his prepubescent ghouls?

Anyone going along with this sincerely needs to have their head examined.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:we are screwed. Our contract is about to expire and were hoping to be renewed. IDK what we are going to do.

Same. And I’m on a long-term, stable contact - it’s just crappy timing. The contract I’m on fills a critical national security gap, and no one in govt or the private sector does it or can/could do it without years and tens of millions of dollars in new investments. The public doesn’t know what my co-workers and I do — they’ve never even heard of us. And that’s a good thing, because our job is to keep them safe and to protect this country, so not knowing about us means we are accomplishing our mission. But we could be gone in a few weeks… we don’t know yet.

Even before reading this post I've been thinking we'll have a terrorist attack on our soil within the next 4 years.

This would not surprise me either. They are making things very difficult for our intelligence agencies to do their jobs.

Calling civil servants "deep state", accusing them of having orchestrated the January 6 MAGA terrorism and calling them dishonest is a pretty good way to get the best people at the FBI and CIA to quit. I have friends there, and I'm so horrified at how Republicans are treating those agencies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:we are screwed. Our contract is about to expire and were hoping to be renewed. IDK what we are going to do.

Same. And I’m on a long-term, stable contact - it’s just crappy timing. The contract I’m on fills a critical national security gap, and no one in govt or the private sector does it or can/could do it without years and tens of millions of dollars in new investments. The public doesn’t know what my co-workers and I do — they’ve never even heard of us. And that’s a good thing, because our job is to keep them safe and to protect this country, so not knowing about us means we are accomplishing our mission. But we could be gone in a few weeks… we don’t know yet.

Even before reading this post I've been thinking we'll have a terrorist attack on our soil within the next 4 years.

This would not surprise me either. They are making things very difficult for our intelligence agencies to do their jobs.

Calling civil servants "deep state", accusing them of having orchestrated the January 6 MAGA terrorism and calling them dishonest is a pretty good way to get the best people at the FBI and CIA to quit. I have friends there, and I'm so horrified at how Republicans are treating those agencies.

Why do people say civil servants?

My friends that work at Commerce call it middle class welfare.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:we are screwed. Our contract is about to expire and were hoping to be renewed. IDK what we are going to do.

Same. And I’m on a long-term, stable contact - it’s just crappy timing. The contract I’m on fills a critical national security gap, and no one in govt or the private sector does it or can/could do it without years and tens of millions of dollars in new investments. The public doesn’t know what my co-workers and I do — they’ve never even heard of us. And that’s a good thing, because our job is to keep them safe and to protect this country, so not knowing about us means we are accomplishing our mission. But we could be gone in a few weeks… we don’t know yet.

Even before reading this post I've been thinking we'll have a terrorist attack on our soil within the next 4 years.

This would not surprise me either. They are making things very difficult for our intelligence agencies to do their jobs.

Calling civil servants "deep state", accusing them of having orchestrated the January 6 MAGA terrorism and calling them dishonest is a pretty good way to get the best people at the FBI and CIA to quit. I have friends there, and I'm so horrified at how Republicans are treating those agencies.

Why do people say civil servants?

My friends that work at Commerce call it middle class welfare.

Well is it middle class welfare or the deep state? Is it underqualified time wasters or a permanent bureaucracy that undermines the elected executive? Make up your minds. Oh wait….

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The grift is over, folks.

Shouldn’t you be out burning a cross somewhere, comrade?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:we are screwed. Our contract is about to expire and were hoping to be renewed. IDK what we are going to do.

Same. And I’m on a long-term, stable contact - it’s just crappy timing. The contract I’m on fills a critical national security gap, and no one in govt or the private sector does it or can/could do it without years and tens of millions of dollars in new investments. The public doesn’t know what my co-workers and I do — they’ve never even heard of us. And that’s a good thing, because our job is to keep them safe and to protect this country, so not knowing about us means we are accomplishing our mission. But we could be gone in a few weeks… we don’t know yet.

Even before reading this post I've been thinking we'll have a terrorist attack on our soil within the next 4 years.

This would not surprise me either. They are making things very difficult for our intelligence agencies to do their jobs.

Calling civil servants "deep state", accusing them of having orchestrated the January 6 MAGA terrorism and calling them dishonest is a pretty good way to get the best people at the FBI and CIA to quit. I have friends there, and I'm so horrified at how Republicans are treating those agencies.

Why do people say civil servants?

My friends that work at Commerce call it middle class welfare.

Nobody believes you have friends.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:we are screwed. Our contract is about to expire and were hoping to be renewed. IDK what we are going to do.

Same. And I’m on a long-term, stable contact - it’s just crappy timing. The contract I’m on fills a critical national security gap, and no one in govt or the private sector does it or can/could do it without years and tens of millions of dollars in new investments. The public doesn’t know what my co-workers and I do — they’ve never even heard of us. And that’s a good thing, because our job is to keep them safe and to protect this country, so not knowing about us means we are accomplishing our mission. But we could be gone in a few weeks… we don’t know yet.

Even before reading this post I've been thinking we'll have a terrorist attack on our soil within the next 4 years.

This would not surprise me either. They are making things very difficult for our intelligence agencies to do their jobs.

Calling civil servants "deep state", accusing them of having orchestrated the January 6 MAGA terrorism and calling them dishonest is a pretty good way to get the best people at the FBI and CIA to quit. I have friends there, and I'm so horrified at how Republicans are treating those agencies.

Why do people say civil servants?

My friends that work at Commerce call it middle class welfare.

Civil servants are those who work in the civil service.
Civil service is the English name for non-military, non-political jobs in government. Even if you don't like civil servants, it is the correct name. I hope this helps you understand our culture better.

Also, you need better friends.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I really wanted kids, too. I despise everyone who voted for this who has taken that away from me. I will never get to have a family thanks to this administration. It’s horrible.

I say this with much kindness. Please take a deep breath and consider talking through your feelings with a therapist. If you really wanted children and have limited time, don’t make the decision not to have them, or even just one, because of Trump. Children were born even during the Great Depression and World War 2. I had my son just before I got too old, and while he has been a difficult child in some ways, he has also brought much joy. I think he makes our small corner of the world a better place.

Ironic, too, since Vance is pushing for people to have more kids, not just one.

But, yea, having kids on one salary and saving for college and retirement in a hcol is very difficult. And if both are feds on the chopping block.. forget it. Or are you advocating for people to have kids while they are unemployed, with Mump gutting social welfare?

--fix quote

As feds, we didn't make enough to fund IVF or to pursue adoption, so we just gave up that dream of having kids, since I couldn't conceive naturally.

This is the first time I've actually been happy about not having kids, there is no way we could afford to live in the area, have one person unemployed and still feed ourselves if we had kids.

This is such bullshit. Two GS-9 Feds can make $150K combined. That's early career salaries.

I paid for IVF as a full time student with health insurance that only covered my bloodwork. Check out CNY - their whole point is to make IVF affordable. I got meds on the "black market" and friends who didnt need them, or imported from Turkey and Israel... if you want to do it, you can make it happen even if it feels overwhelming!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:we are screwed. Our contract is about to expire and were hoping to be renewed. IDK what we are going to do.

Same. And I’m on a long-term, stable contact - it’s just crappy timing. The contract I’m on fills a critical national security gap, and no one in govt or the private sector does it or can/could do it without years and tens of millions of dollars in new investments. The public doesn’t know what my co-workers and I do — they’ve never even heard of us. And that’s a good thing, because our job is to keep them safe and to protect this country, so not knowing about us means we are accomplishing our mission. But we could be gone in a few weeks… we don’t know yet.

Even before reading this post I've been thinking we'll have a terrorist attack on our soil within the next 4 years.

This would not surprise me either. They are making things very difficult for our intelligence agencies to do their jobs.

Calling civil servants "deep state", accusing them of having orchestrated the January 6 MAGA terrorism and calling them dishonest is a pretty good way to get the best people at the FBI and CIA to quit. I have friends there, and I'm so horrified at how Republicans are treating those agencies.

Why do people say civil servants?

My friends that work at Commerce call it middle class welfare.

Civil servants are those who work in the civil service.
Civil service is the English name for non-military, non-political jobs in government. Even if you don't like civil servants, it is the correct name. I hope this helps you understand our culture better.

Also, you need better friends.

Thank you for explaining it to our Russian comrades.