Talk about a super obvious conflict of interest. Wow.
I worked at GSA as a Manpower temp in 1988. I was on a 300 programmer project to automate the fedgov's real estate tracking - which had no central system at the time. After about 3 months, the Mooney newspaper, The Washington Times, ran an article calling it a "$278 million typewriter" and the project was killed in ONE WEEK.
We were instructed to go to a hotel for a nice luncheon on Monday. White tablecloths, the works. After we ate, our project manager (making $120,000 a year and just promised everyone at an all hands meeting two weeks before that the staff would have 90 day notice if the contract status was going to change), told us not to come back tomorrow... We nicknamed it "The Last Supper."
I tagged along with the Unisys employees who were taking the buy out just to see what happened to them. Nobody objected to a temp employee with no relationship to Unisys whatsoever, hanging out while the Unisys HR did their dog and pony show. Today that would never happen. Compared to what happens to laid off Corporate employees today, they did OK. Five years later, I got to watch the same process from within IBM.
The GSA headquarters is so big that employees get lost in it. I sure did. When you look down the hallways to the very end, the people down there are about an inch high. It was a VERY sick building. It took me 3 weeks to acclimate to the poison in that building. I was young, so I was able to survive it. Today, I wouldn't last an hour.
Talk about a super obvious conflict of interest. Wow.
I worked at GSA as a Manpower temp in 1988. I was on a 300 programmer project to automate the fedgov's real estate tracking - which had no central system at the time. After about 3 months, the Mooney newspaper, The Washington Times, ran an article calling it a "$278 million typewriter" and the project was killed in ONE WEEK.
We were instructed to go to a hotel for a nice luncheon on Monday. White tablecloths, the works. After we ate, our project manager (making $120,000 a year and just promised everyone at an all hands meeting two weeks before that the staff would have 90 day notice if the contract status was going to change), told us not to come back tomorrow... We nicknamed it "The Last Supper."
I tagged along with the Unisys employees who were taking the buy out just to see what happened to them. Nobody objected to a temp employee with no relationship to Unisys whatsoever, hanging out while the Unisys HR did their dog and pony show. Today that would never happen. Compared to what happens to laid off Corporate employees today, they did OK. Five years later, I got to watch the same process from within IBM.
The GSA headquarters is so big that employees get lost in it. I sure did. When you look down the hallways to the very end, the people down there are about an inch high. It was a VERY sick building. It took me 3 weeks to acclimate to the poison in that building. I was young, so I was able to survive it. Today, I wouldn't last an hour.
This being the self-same Grok that only recently claimed to be MechaHitler!?
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