Not the first time they were caught.

  • Andy@slrpnk.net
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    3 days ago

    Whew.

    The thing about these incidents that I find most interesting is that they basically reveal a widely held suspicion among many people that these government contractors are over-crexentialed bullshit artists.

    This just shows what we’ve all suspected: they’ve been cutting corners, claiming underserved authority, and making up shit for years. But now some folks are checking and reporting on it.

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      3 days ago

      I think these consulting firms exist to help the upper/top management to embezzle money and to shield them from personal responsibility (“Deloitte said so, I could only follow this industry standard guidance, don’t ask me why every project has crashed, lol”).

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      3 days ago

      But they will kick back to me 30% of a fat contract. And when things go south I will blame Deloitte. So why would I change my highly lucrative for me behavior?

      I won’t.

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    2 days ago

    I hope we demand a refund and fire them.

    What a waste of money, I hate these companies and I hate that our government keeps using them.

    I get they’re all scared of fixed costs but at this point how much have we wasted on these companies? They could have hired 7-10 full time employees at $80-$100k for a year for the cost of this one report. They could have hired 4-6 highly qualified professionals for that cost. They could have hired some really good term employees.

    How many reports like this are we wasting resources on?

  • kent_eh@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    Newfoundland and Labrador is the province involved.

    Had to read far too deep into the poorly written article to find that important bit of context.