Federal contractors, how have EOs affected you so far?

[Anonymous]

I am a federal contractor who was randomly called in five days a week.

Today I had to spend an hour on the clock listening to my client go on about his personal life. Total waste of time. But hey, if I have to be in here, I’m not working from home. And I’m actively looking for a new job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thrilled DEI is toast!

I know, mediocre white men really need more chances in life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thrilled DEI is toast!

I know, mediocre white men really need more chances in life.

Plus it’s great red meat for the base while we cut their Medicaid to pay for billionaires’ tax cuts.

[Anonymous]

Initially it'll depend on the contract language and their the task monitor and likely vary agency to agency and probably within an agency, particular for larger ones.

Eventually, they will all likely align with the feds.

[Anonymous]

Affirmative Action spread into the corporate world via Federal contracting requirements mandating set asides and the auditing of your compliance with the set asides. If that disappears, it will have enormous ramifications across the corporate world and HR departments because people will no longer need to track racial data.

AA, and the subsequent MBE set aside in contracting requirements, was initially set up to promote the contracting of black owned businesses and eventually ended up being a vehicle primarily used by non black firms (mostly Asian and South Asian), so from a pragmatic perspective removing MBEs from contracting won't change much as they'll all just be considered the equivalent SBE set asides.

I do think we are in a bold new post-racial era and it needed to happen sooner or later.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thrilled DEI is toast!

You’re thrilled to get rid of sign language interpreters? Tell me more.

[Anonymous]

No more Veterans preference ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No more Veterans preference ?

In glancing at the EOs, Veterans preference is not being touched.

[Anonymous]

Not one bit.

[Anonymous]

It’s looking we might start working from home because they don’t have office space for all of the federal employees with us here. No final decisions announced yet, but that’s the rumor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Affirmative Action spread into the corporate world via Federal contracting requirements mandating set asides and the auditing of your compliance with the set asides. If that disappears, it will have enormous ramifications across the corporate world and HR departments because people will no longer need to track racial data.

AA, and the subsequent MBE set aside in contracting requirements, was initially set up to promote the contracting of black owned businesses and eventually ended up being a vehicle primarily used by non black firms (mostly Asian and South Asian), so from a pragmatic perspective removing MBEs from contracting won't change much as they'll all just be considered the equivalent SBE set asides.

I do think we are in a bold new post-racial era and it needed to happen sooner or later.

Anyone who is a small business (SB), WOSB, VOSB, MOSB should be worried. Preference was given to them with many contracts. Lots of contracting specifically created just for WOSB/VOSB/MOSB only. Without those protections and stipulations, do you think the Gov is going to award them contracts over the big guys? Pfft.

I work for a WOSB who definitely cannot compete with the big guys in our space for contracts without preference given. We'll see what happens. I have my own side consulting gig, so I'll be ok if things go to shit.

[Anonymous]

I'm a non-DOD contractor and do a lot of work for a targeted agency. The EOs will significantly hamper my work and will likely stop it altogether in some cases. I'm just really sad about it because I truly believe in the work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Affirmative Action spread into the corporate world via Federal contracting requirements mandating set asides and the auditing of your compliance with the set asides. If that disappears, it will have enormous ramifications across the corporate world and HR departments because people will no longer need to track racial data.

AA, and the subsequent MBE set aside in contracting requirements, was initially set up to promote the contracting of black owned businesses and eventually ended up being a vehicle primarily used by non black firms (mostly Asian and South Asian), so from a pragmatic perspective removing MBEs from contracting won't change much as they'll all just be considered the equivalent SBE set asides.

I do think we are in a bold new post-racial era and it needed to happen sooner or later.

Anyone who is a small business (SB), WOSB, VOSB, MOSB should be worried. Preference was given to them with many contracts. Lots of contracting specifically created just for WOSB/VOSB/MOSB only. Without those protections and stipulations, do you think the Gov is going to award them contracts over the big guys? Pfft.

I work for a WOSB who definitely cannot compete with the big guys in our space for contracts without preference given. We'll see what happens. I have my own side consulting gig, so I'll be ok if things go to shit.

Small business likely won't be touched.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Affirmative Action spread into the corporate world via Federal contracting requirements mandating set asides and the auditing of your compliance with the set asides. If that disappears, it will have enormous ramifications across the corporate world and HR departments because people will no longer need to track racial data.

AA, and the subsequent MBE set aside in contracting requirements, was initially set up to promote the contracting of black owned businesses and eventually ended up being a vehicle primarily used by non black firms (mostly Asian and South Asian), so from a pragmatic perspective removing MBEs from contracting won't change much as they'll all just be considered the equivalent SBE set asides.

I do think we are in a bold new post-racial era and it needed to happen sooner or later.

Anyone who is a small business (SB), WOSB, VOSB, MOSB should be worried. Preference was given to them with many contracts. Lots of contracting specifically created just for WOSB/VOSB/MOSB only. Without those protections and stipulations, do you think the Gov is going to award them contracts over the big guys? Pfft.

I work for a WOSB who definitely cannot compete with the big guys in our space for contracts without preference given. We'll see what happens. I have my own side consulting gig, so I'll be ok if things go to shit.

Many of these programs are required by statute. All of them are in federal regulations that would need to be repealed thru notice and comment rule making.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Affirmative Action spread into the corporate world via Federal contracting requirements mandating set asides and the auditing of your compliance with the set asides. If that disappears, it will have enormous ramifications across the corporate world and HR departments because people will no longer need to track racial data.

AA, and the subsequent MBE set aside in contracting requirements, was initially set up to promote the contracting of black owned businesses and eventually ended up being a vehicle primarily used by non black firms (mostly Asian and South Asian), so from a pragmatic perspective removing MBEs from contracting won't change much as they'll all just be considered the equivalent SBE set asides.

I do think we are in a bold new post-racial era and it needed to happen sooner or later.

Anyone who is a small business (SB), WOSB, VOSB, MOSB should be worried. Preference was given to them with many contracts. Lots of contracting specifically created just for WOSB/VOSB/MOSB only. Without those protections and stipulations, do you think the Gov is going to award them contracts over the big guys? Pfft.

I work for a WOSB who definitely cannot compete with the big guys in our space for contracts without preference given. We'll see what happens. I have my own side consulting gig, so I'll be ok if things go to shit.

Small business likely won't be touched.

Why can’t you compete? Maybe your WOSB needs to improve itself.