DoE wins the Golden Hammer Award
For contractor expenses that were not in accord with policy, including large food and beverage bills, the award was given to DoE. It is shocking that such abuses can go on, and more shocking that they are reported to be wide spread.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/17/energy-department-pays-out-millions-for-contractor/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS
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Smwaaahhhh Open Wide, It will only hurt for a while. I promise.
Meanwhile, back at the declining DOE "for-profit" managed research labs you can't even find toilet paper in the restrooms on some days and pens & paper are rarely to be seen in the office stock rooms. Go figure.
Heck, at LANL even the cheap jugs of bottled water were disallowed several years ago and the water purifier filters were all ripped away from the drinking fountains. "Disallowed!" said the bureaucrats over at NNSA/DOE.
I don't take issue with the overall thread about waste. But there is no shortage of basic supplies at LANL or LLNL.
Let's keep it at least somewhat real.
October 22, 2013 at 12:52 PM
You must work in theemerald palace. Lackey!
Your Office Administrator is incompetent, or worse.
You picked another pension fund manager to rescue the worst but not the only- IT laydown in History.
Blundering is the price of incompetence, cause by aa or not.
How about a proven IT giant-scale project manager? Holder of the specification, the budget, the schedule, the contingency, the risk, assurances, customer and stakeholder communication and sponsor expectations.
A bull who makes decisions. What is Mara doing now? Or Van Arsdale?
Each more qualified than a pension fund manager.
Really, I've seen much less waste at LLNL in the last 15 years than my first 15 years.
Spending some bucks on Cheese and Crackers or Ice Cream is a good thing if it gets people out of their offices (and into the sunlight).
October 25, 2013 at 3:05 PM
Please no! They might start thinking of interacting, and God forbid, procreating!