Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:There a lots of fed jobs that don't require college. Facilities jobs and laborers. At my old agency, non-college facilities workers on 3d shift make >$100k/year. And good for them. You want to maintain elevators on the 11 pm - 7 a.m. shift?
There are very few facilities workers who are federal employees. Those jobs have been contracted out almost everywhere.
This is completely inaccurate. It's hard to contract out facilities jobs because contractors cannot be in charge of procuring other contractors. In facilities, a variety of issues arise (specialized maintenance, replacing systems like HVAC, etc) that require purchasing. Contractors can't do that by law, they can't commit government funds.
There’s are contractors running all the O&M on every military base we have. This can be and is contracted out.
Example:
https://usfcr.com/search/opportunities/?oppId=efc5f91540ac43a28b8f61f61f51200a
The Mission and Installation Contracting Command-Installation Readiness Center on behalf of the Mission and Installation Contracting Command-Fort Carson, is issuing a solicitation for a contractor to provide Base Operations Support Services at the U.S. Army Fort Carson, CO.Description of Services:The Contractor shall provide all personnel, equipment, supplies, tools, materials, supervision, and other items and non-personal services necessary as defined in this PWS. Work includes all required maintenance, labor, materials and repairs to facilities, structures, buildings, and utilities that are classified as real property, and Army Training and Evaluation Center non-real properties, unless otherwise stated in this contract, to include installed building equipment as defined in Army Regulation (AR) 420-1, Army Facilities Management. The following is a list of Common Level of Services (CLS) that will be included in this acquisition:
That's work that probably could be done for much cheaper by federal employees but thanks to A-76 everything that can be outsourced is forced to be outsourced, and it's Republicans who have pushed for all of that privatization and outsourcing so that companies can profit.
TY!
Some folks believe that outsourcing = job done at lower cost and that is a hell no. Private companies are not offering to do this work for less, they are in it solely for profit.
Anonymous wrote:Looks like Vivek is getting voted off the island. He's been told to be the temp Senator to take Vance's place. Guess jos little - white MAGA too lazy & coddled to have good paying jobs was too much. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/15/vivek-ramaswamy-ohio-senate-trump/
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:There a lots of fed jobs that don't require college. Facilities jobs and laborers. At my old agency, non-college facilities workers on 3d shift make >$100k/year. And good for them. You want to maintain elevators on the 11 pm - 7 a.m. shift?
There are very few facilities workers who are federal employees. Those jobs have been contracted out almost everywhere.
This is completely inaccurate. It's hard to contract out facilities jobs because contractors cannot be in charge of procuring other contractors. In facilities, a variety of issues arise (specialized maintenance, replacing systems like HVAC, etc) that require purchasing. Contractors can't do that by law, they can't commit government funds.
There’s are contractors running all the O&M on every military base we have. This can be and is contracted out.
Example:
https://usfcr.com/search/opportunities/?oppId=efc5f91540ac43a28b8f61f61f51200a
The Mission and Installation Contracting Command-Installation Readiness Center on behalf of the Mission and Installation Contracting Command-Fort Carson, is issuing a solicitation for a contractor to provide Base Operations Support Services at the U.S. Army Fort Carson, CO.Description of Services:The Contractor shall provide all personnel, equipment, supplies, tools, materials, supervision, and other items and non-personal services necessary as defined in this PWS. Work includes all required maintenance, labor, materials and repairs to facilities, structures, buildings, and utilities that are classified as real property, and Army Training and Evaluation Center non-real properties, unless otherwise stated in this contract, to include installed building equipment as defined in Army Regulation (AR) 420-1, Army Facilities Management. The following is a list of Common Level of Services (CLS) that will be included in this acquisition:
That's work that probably could be done for much cheaper by federal employees but thanks to A-76 everything that can be outsourced is forced to be outsourced, and it's Republicans who have pushed for all of that privatization and outsourcing so that companies can profit.
Anonymous wrote:My agency recently gave up multiple buildings, a lease to parking garage, and plans to offload another building in the future. Current guidance command freeing up real estate when occupancy is below certain levels. And we’ve saved a lot of money getting rid of space.
Relatedly, we finalized new CBAs that enshrined remote work for a big percentage of our workforce. And our other programs are statutory AND predated Covid.
So it would be uphill for them to revoke remote work.
As far as AI- it’s not permitted to be used in our agency. Full stop.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:This thread is just proving their points. You feds live in a bubble and are completely disconnected from reality.
So is MAGA if you believe firing the government makes for a stronger nation.
Yes they need to work in the private sector and pay more taxes than they take
36 trillion in debt needs more tax money and less spending
No problem, we’ll just take away your social security and Medicare.
You could fire every single federal employee and not fix this. To balance the budget defense needs to be cut, it's out largest expense. Next is social security and Medicare. Cut all that and you can balance the budget without firing anyone.
Use AI to take the place of all FEDs working from home.
Big savings.
Then when they work in the private sector they are contributing instead of taking
Hah! You don't know much about how AI works. It's GIGO. If you want it to work perfectly it needs to be fed cleaned-up data or it will repeat all the human errors and foibles it learns.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:This thread is just proving their points. You feds live in a bubble and are completely disconnected from reality.
So is MAGA if you believe firing the government makes for a stronger nation.
Yes they need to work in the private sector and pay more taxes than they take
36 trillion in debt needs more tax money and less spending
No problem, we’ll just take away your social security and Medicare.
You could fire every single federal employee and not fix this. To balance the budget defense needs to be cut, it's out largest expense. Next is social security and Medicare. Cut all that and you can balance the budget without firing anyone.
Use AI to take the place of all FEDs working from home.
Big savings.
Then when they work in the private sector they are contributing instead of taking
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:There a lots of fed jobs that don't require college. Facilities jobs and laborers. At my old agency, non-college facilities workers on 3d shift make >$100k/year. And good for them. You want to maintain elevators on the 11 pm - 7 a.m. shift?
There are very few facilities workers who are federal employees. Those jobs have been contracted out almost everywhere.
This is completely inaccurate. It's hard to contract out facilities jobs because contractors cannot be in charge of procuring other contractors. In facilities, a variety of issues arise (specialized maintenance, replacing systems like HVAC, etc) that require purchasing. Contractors can't do that by law, they can't commit government funds.
There’s are contractors running all the O&M on every military base we have. This can be and is contracted out.
Example:
https://usfcr.com/search/opportunities/?oppId=efc5f91540ac43a28b8f61f61f51200a
The Mission and Installation Contracting Command-Installation Readiness Center on behalf of the Mission and Installation Contracting Command-Fort Carson, is issuing a solicitation for a contractor to provide Base Operations Support Services at the U.S. Army Fort Carson, CO.Description of Services:The Contractor shall provide all personnel, equipment, supplies, tools, materials, supervision, and other items and non-personal services necessary as defined in this PWS. Work includes all required maintenance, labor, materials and repairs to facilities, structures, buildings, and utilities that are classified as real property, and Army Training and Evaluation Center non-real properties, unless otherwise stated in this contract, to include installed building equipment as defined in Army Regulation (AR) 420-1, Army Facilities Management. The following is a list of Common Level of Services (CLS) that will be included in this acquisition:
That's work that probably could be done for much cheaper by federal employees but thanks to A-76 everything that can be outsourced is forced to be outsourced, and it's Republicans who have pushed for all of that privatization and outsourcing so that companies can profit.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:So funny that MAGA is in the tank for a foreigner and an anchor baby after all of their blather about immigrants. They can start their mass deportations with these two clowns.
And I think they fall into two camps - 1. the really dumb MAGAs who just go along with their favored lines of propaganda never questioning it and totally self-unaware and clueless to how inconsistent it is and 2. the less dumb ones who think they are smarter than the rest of us by thinking they can fool us with their bizarre and convoluted rationalizations about how it's not at all hypocritical or inconsistent - sorry but we see it for what it is.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:There a lots of fed jobs that don't require college. Facilities jobs and laborers. At my old agency, non-college facilities workers on 3d shift make >$100k/year. And good for them. You want to maintain elevators on the 11 pm - 7 a.m. shift?
There are very few facilities workers who are federal employees. Those jobs have been contracted out almost everywhere.
This is completely inaccurate. It's hard to contract out facilities jobs because contractors cannot be in charge of procuring other contractors. In facilities, a variety of issues arise (specialized maintenance, replacing systems like HVAC, etc) that require purchasing. Contractors can't do that by law, they can't commit government funds.
There’s are contractors running all the O&M on every military base we have. This can be and is contracted out.
Example:
https://usfcr.com/search/opportunities/?oppId=efc5f91540ac43a28b8f61f61f51200a
The Mission and Installation Contracting Command-Installation Readiness Center on behalf of the Mission and Installation Contracting Command-Fort Carson, is issuing a solicitation for a contractor to provide Base Operations Support Services at the U.S. Army Fort Carson, CO.Description of Services:The Contractor shall provide all personnel, equipment, supplies, tools, materials, supervision, and other items and non-personal services necessary as defined in this PWS. Work includes all required maintenance, labor, materials and repairs to facilities, structures, buildings, and utilities that are classified as real property, and Army Training and Evaluation Center non-real properties, unless otherwise stated in this contract, to include installed building equipment as defined in Army Regulation (AR) 420-1, Army Facilities Management. The following is a list of Common Level of Services (CLS) that will be included in this acquisition:
Anonymous wrote:So funny that MAGA is in the tank for a foreigner and an anchor baby after all of their blather about immigrants. They can start their mass deportations with these two clowns.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:There a lots of fed jobs that don't require college. Facilities jobs and laborers. At my old agency, non-college facilities workers on 3d shift make >$100k/year. And good for them. You want to maintain elevators on the 11 pm - 7 a.m. shift?
There are very few facilities workers who are federal employees. Those jobs have been contracted out almost everywhere.
This is completely inaccurate. It's hard to contract out facilities jobs because contractors cannot be in charge of procuring other contractors. In facilities, a variety of issues arise (specialized maintenance, replacing systems like HVAC, etc) that require purchasing. Contractors can't do that by law, they can't commit government funds.
There’s are contractors running all the O&M on every military base we have. This can be and is contracted out.