Just got a public sector job and

[jediuser598]

Damn guys, you don't do shit. I actually work both private and public right now and the contrast is rather striking. I'd get fired from my private sector job if I worked at that pace.

[Okeefenokee]

having second thoughts about taxes now?

[jediuser598]

having second thoughts about taxes now?

Nah, I still believe in libraries, public parks, national parks, the police (with some caveats), the military, universities, NASA, and a bunch of other public works, but the waste and abuse could do with some reform. I know if I did half the shit I saw, I'd be charged with theft of time in the private sector.

[Okeefenokee]

having second thoughts about taxes now?

Nah, I still believe in libraries, public parks, national parks, the police (with some caveats), the military, universities, NASA, and a bunch of other public works, but the waste and abuse could do with some reform. I know if I did half the shit I saw, I'd be charged with theft of time in the private sector.

Forgive me for trying to contain myself.

Hey dude, the end of the fiscal year is coming. Do you know what that means? In every office of every government department around the world, someone is going to come around to explain that if all of the years budget isn't spent, next year you won't get as much money, so you'd best come up with an excuse to spend that money, lest next year's budget decrease.

All that waste you're seeing is gonna be propped up as absolutely essential to the continuance of the free world. Are you going to be another enabler of the misuse of taxpayer funds? It's coming.

Those libraries and parks you love are in competition with the waste that is coming from a department near you. Welcome to the shit show that is spending other people's money. It's gonna be a fun ride.

This is the primary reason I'm in favor of mandatory public service. If there's anything that will open the eyes of the nation to the gross misuse of public funds, it's seeing it up front.

I got into this conversation today about updating the computers where I work. We have dozens of computers that never get used. I said downsize the machines by number, but upgrade their capacity. Absolutely haram. Can't lower the number of machines, even if they never get used.

The guy I was talking to knew I was right, but he wasn't going to be the one to do it.

That's what my tax dollars are paying for. Dozens of computers in a back room that no one ever uses and no one even knows about. And if you suggest that they should be done away with, you're an infidel.

On my campus, we have a math lab, and a math emporium, and a math tutoring center, and another math tutoring center, and math professors, and a federal math tutoring center, and another federal math tutoring center.

Seven separate departments devoted to math alone. When one of these departments, with two dozen computers that never, ever, get used gets faced with the prospect of reducing their budget, they scream like they're being mauled.

Welcome to government work. It's a blast.

[jediuser598]

Welcome to a republic. Start convincing your fellow citizens to pass legislation in order to affect the change you want. What's funny is that even though you bitch and moan about it all, you're still on the take.

[Okeefenokee]

Welcome to a republic. Start convincing your fellow citizens to pass legislation in order to affect the change you want. What's funny is that even though you bitch and moan about it all, you're still on the take.

Like your lilly white, shitty credit ass knows the first thing about the property taxes I pay.

Still on the take.

Get back to me when you're dropping thirty grand a year on military school.

[Ex-California]

I work in the private sector

I do actual work about once a week

[TheReal_ND]

I want a cushy public sector job...

[Ex-California]

having second thoughts about taxes now?

Nah, I still believe in libraries, public parks, national parks, the police (with some caveats), the military, universities, NASA, and a bunch of other public works, but the waste and abuse could do with some reform. I know if I did half the shit I saw, I'd be charged with theft of time in the private sector.

Forgive me for trying to contain myself.

Hey dude, the end of the fiscal year is coming. Do you know what that means? In every office of every government department around the world, someone is going to come around to explain that if all of the years budget isn't spent, next year you won't get as much money, so you'd best come up with an excuse to spend that money, lest next year's budget decrease.

All that waste you're seeing is gonna be propped up as absolutely essential to the continuance of the free world. Are you going to be another enabler of the misuse of taxpayer funds? It's coming.

Those libraries and parks you love are in competition with the waste that is coming from a department near you. Welcome to the shit show that is spending other people's money. It's gonna be a fun ride.

This is the primary reason I'm in favor of mandatory public service. If there's anything that will open the eyes of the nation to the gross misuse of public funds, it's seeing it up front.

I got into this conversation today about updating the computers where I work. We have dozens of computers that never get used. I said downsize the machines by number, but upgrade their capacity. Absolutely haram. Can't lower the number of machines, even if they never get used.

The guy I was talking to knew I was right, but he wasn't going to be the one to do it.

That's what my tax dollars are paying for. Dozens of computers in a back room that no one ever uses and no one even knows about. And if you suggest that they should be done away with, you're an infidel.

On my campus, we have a math lab, and a math emporium, and a math tutoring center, and another math tutoring center, and math professors, and a federal math tutoring center, and another federal math tutoring center.

Seven separate departments devoted to math alone. When one of these departments, with two dozen computers that never, ever, get used gets faced with the prospect of reducing their budget, they scream like they're being mauled.

Welcome to government work. It's a blast.

While I am well-aware of the massive amount of government waste, the same thing happens in large private corporations. A section gets its budget for the year, and if they don't spend that much this year, they won't have it to spend again next year.

Its a bureaucratic game of waste and spending, both in the private and public sectors.

It doesn't make me hate taxes anymore, but its cries out that there is a bigger problem with accounting and middle management. Its probably all just people who don't care about working and who are showing up for a paycheck

[jediuser598]

Welcome to a republic. Start convincing your fellow citizens to pass legislation in order to affect the change you want. What's funny is that even though you bitch and moan about it all, you're still on the take.

Like your lilly white, shitty credit ass knows the first thing about the property taxes I pay.

Still on the take.

Get back to me when you're dropping thirty grand a year on military school.

I feel bad that you own, what is it? Three houses? Oh yes sir, that's just awful. And you're talking shit about my credit when you know that that's entirely not my fault.