Yep!! Not a Strategy, Most Don't Talk to Each Other
Fed, state, local, military, agency, etc. fight for power and funding (budget) between and among themselves.
This is why it takes so much time for any decisions to be made.
It has nothing to do with gender either. One organization competes with another to be recognized as having authority. The more authority your organization has, the more work your organization gets and that means you may get more money or may be able to keep more staff.
As a contractor, it was best to just sit back and let them make stupid decisions and then one of them would call and ask for help getting the work done.
Remember, these people do not do the work very often. The contractors do the work, then they approve it. Then someone else, who strongly believes he has the authority to get something done contracts with another contractor to do the same thing, but with a different objective.
The contractors make the money doing the work requested and then the project gets cancelled or shelved until more money is available to continue the work.
However, by the time the next budget it approved for the work to continue, the people in charge have been promoted or move to a new project where they can work to get promoted again.
Like I said before, we delivered a $1.5M software package and it sat under a desk for years with the new people not knowing who ordered the software and for what project it had been purchased.
Then you have competing contractor B, who criticize the work done by the other contractor A who did the job correctly and in-accordance with the design and regulations.
Then, the funding organization awards a new contract to contractor B, who screws everything up and costs the government a lot of money.
Then a new funding source contracts with contractor C, who now has contractor A's well qualified employees, to come in and fix what contractor B's unqualified people screwed up.
Ah, the world of working as a contractor for the government. Everything takes forever to get done right and costs many times more than needed.
Very few government employees can do the work, since they are hired or given a task they cannot do, due to their lack of training, education, or experience. The correct government employees are rarely allowed to do work for which they are qualified. If they were brought in to do someone's work, then that government employee may be replaced by the new qualified person.
There are government rules on hiring as well and how a person gets a government job. It is not usually the guy or lady who can do the job well who is hired for a specific job responsibility. That highly qualified person has already taken a job with Contractor A to do the job they other government employees are not qualified to do correctly.
Then another contractor is hired to fix the mess left by the contractor who play politics and forced his way in by lying about the work done by the , who has the original well qualified contractor employees to finally finish the job correctly.
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