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[quote=Anonymous]I agree with OP and I know why, because it happened to me! Part of it is the ballooning requirements for "accountability" that PP mentioned, and the fact that we don't have admin or records management staff anymore, it's now "everyone's job" to learn every procedure, determine what is a federal record and its retention schedule, etc. It's a lot of documentation to do for every step of your *real* job.

The other part is that we don't fund the government to DO stuff anymore, we fund it to get people in the private sector to do stuff at a higher cost. I am in an SME position leading a research position. The guy in my job in the 80s and 90s did a ton of the research himself. Standards have changed, research is more complex and publication standards are higher today, and we do more of it; it's just not possible for one persin to do 20 multi-year research projects no matter how productive they are. But instead of being a PI with a research staff, the only "research" I get to do is to survey literature and gather initial data ro scope out contracts and grants to universities to do the work for us instead, because our funding is restricted and most of it can't be used for staffing  Of course it looks like I do nothing! I know I have to launch 10 projects in fiscal year 24, and am already working on preliminary research for scoping, but my name won't be on any of them in the end.[/quote]

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