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posted by martyb on Monday December 17 2018, @07:37AM   Printer-friendly
from the Meet-your-goals-by-moving-the-goalposts dept.

From NPR:

The audit found that as of Oct. 1 CBP had paid Accenture Federal Services approximately $13.6 million of a $297 million contract to recruit and hire 7,500 applicants, including Customs and Border Protection officers, Border Patrol agents, and Air and Marine Interdiction agents. But 10 months into the first year of a five-year contract Accenture had only processed "two accepted job offers," according to the report.

[...] When it became clear the company would miss a 90-day deadline to reach the "full operation phase" outlined in the agreement, the agency modified the contract granting Accenture another three months to ramp up operations to meet the terms of the contract.

CBP also allowed the company to use the government agency's applicant tracking system when Accenture failed to deploy its own, leading to another contract revision.


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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 17 2018, @09:14AM (18 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 17 2018, @09:14AM (#775327)

    I worked at a government agency where they tried to issue new ids. It required everyone to visit three different buildings sprawled throughout the campus to fill out various forms and wait in lines, a process that wasted 1-3 workdays of each employee.

    Then you got to the "last line" to get your new id photo taken and it processed like 1 person an hr. Looking at what the holdup was, it was nothing. The people supposed to be doing id stuff were literally sitting silently in chairs doing nothing. Not working, not messing around, not smoking, not reading, just sitting and looking at their shoes. So eventually you gave up and never got the id. When I left the old ids were still in use after like 4 years of trying to introduce the new ones.

    Just as a guestimate say there were 10k employees making an avg of $50/hr who wasted two days each: 10k x 50 x 8 x 2 = $8 million. And that doesnt include whatever they paid for the new id machines, etc.

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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 17 2018, @10:20AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 17 2018, @10:20AM (#775341)

    Now that I think about it Im not sure about the one person per hour, the line was probably mostly moving due to people giving up rather than getting processed.

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Monday December 17 2018, @07:16PM (16 children)

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Monday December 17 2018, @07:16PM (#775497) Journal

    And as we all know it would be completely impossible for a private entity have an equally screwed process.

    Last time I had a problem with Verizon it totally didn't take waiting in several different queues to talk to several different people on several different continents.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 17 2018, @09:03PM (14 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 17 2018, @09:03PM (#775554)

      And as we all know it would be completely impossible for a private entity have an equally screwed process.

      Who argues this? The difference between the two is the government doesnt go bankrupt unless its in a war or other awful event.

      PS: Like usual, the "left" talking points I come across are against a strawmen. It never fails, so interesting that the rise in NHST happened with the rise in that political view throughout academia. There is something about that mindset that just can't grasp the problem with using strawman arguments.

      • (Score: 3, Insightful) by PartTimeZombie on Monday December 17 2018, @09:26PM (13 children)

        by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Monday December 17 2018, @09:26PM (#775566)

        And as we all know it would be completely impossible for a private entity have an equally screwed process.

        Who argues this?

        Usually the Republican pretending they are against "big government" but who is actually trying to get his campaign backers some of those nice juicy tax cuts that wind up being paid for by the poor and middle classes.

        Sometimes it's the Republicans' useful idiots, the libertarians, who love magical thinking.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 17 2018, @09:52PM (12 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 17 2018, @09:52PM (#775583)

          Usually the Republican pretending they are against "big government"

          First, the "Republicans" are obviously "left" (for government having a huge budget and doing all sorts of interfering in peoples lives) despite whatever they say to people.

          But still, I have never heard this. Can you find one example?

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 17 2018, @10:25PM (1 child)

            by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 17 2018, @10:25PM (#775596)

            Ron Paul is literally a shape shifter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOjxI94OX4E [youtube.com]

          • (Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Monday December 17 2018, @11:52PM (9 children)

            by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Monday December 17 2018, @11:52PM (#775630)

            Can you find one example?

            How hard can it be? Try searching for "Kansas budget crisis" it's a textbook example of exactly what I described. Namely tax cuts (for the rich, of course) will stimulate growth.

            Surprise! It didn't and who bailed the stupid Republicans out? Those nice Democrats in California and New York, like they always do when ignorant Republicans screw the US economy up.

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 18 2018, @12:09AM (8 children)

              by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 18 2018, @12:09AM (#775639)

              How hard can it be?

              SIgh... over and over again with the same tactics. I am 100% confident you don't have one now, or else you would have posted it.

              Maybe your next step will be a link to some 500 page book for $30 dollars I am supposed to read all the way through. Or will it be a link to some random page you have never read before that doesn't contain support for the original claim?

              So, lets skip to the end so you don't get to accuse me of" moving the goalposts": Post a link and quote the exact part you think shows a "republican" claiming: "it would be completely impossible for a private entity have an equally screwed process."

              • (Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday December 18 2018, @12:35AM (7 children)

                by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Tuesday December 18 2018, @12:35AM (#775660)

                I'm equally sure you have absolutely no faith in your position, as you refuse to even log in to identify yourself.

                Or debate in good faith.

                • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 18 2018, @12:47AM (6 children)

                  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 18 2018, @12:47AM (#775666)

                  My position is that NO ONE ("republican" or not) has ever claimed: "it would be completely impossible for a private entity have an equally screwed process."

                  Go ahead, you can disprove it with one counter example.

                  • (Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday December 18 2018, @01:11AM (5 children)

                    by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Tuesday December 18 2018, @01:11AM (#775674)

                    And my position is the Republicans have always argued that governments always do things so badly that they should get out of the way of private enterprise, who always do things better.

                    Even though it is untrue.

                    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 18 2018, @01:15AM (3 children)

                      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 18 2018, @01:15AM (#775676)

                      So your position has nothing to do with the original claim, which was a strawman. Yes, good we are in agreement.

                      • (Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday December 18 2018, @01:30AM (2 children)

                        by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Tuesday December 18 2018, @01:30AM (#775681)

                        Nope.

                        My position is that the original claim is hyperbole.

                        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 18 2018, @01:53AM (1 child)

                          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 18 2018, @01:53AM (#775689)

                          Your position just changed three times in the last hour or so?

                    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 23 2018, @07:02PM

                      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 23 2018, @07:02PM (#777877)

                      When they are too inept to run their own business, but don't feel anyone else deserves the benefits of the government jobs and if they really wanted them they should start their own business or come and work for the government too, but only if they are below them on the pecking order. Nothing like a filthy liberal in a position of power.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 18 2018, @09:51AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 18 2018, @09:51AM (#775770)

      Try applying for a mobile phone in Australia. They ask you to scan your license, cards etc, enough ID to steal your identity, and upload it to a server in another country so someone on the other side of the world can verify that you are you.
      Just to get a mobile phone account.