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In Atlanta, an electrical problem in a "Buss Duct" has caused the Sam Nunn Atlanta Federal Center to be closed for at least a week. 5,000 federal employees work at the center.
While many might view this as another example of The Infrastructure Crisis in the USA, it may also be another example of mismanagement at the General Service Administration (GSA), landlord for the complex.
The GSA has had many scandals and has been the subject of several Congressional Hearings, including an August 1, 2012 hearing titled "GSA: A Review of Agency Mismanagement and Wasteful Spending - Part 2". That hearing followed an $823,000 GSA employee conference in Las Vegas and a one-day-long $250,000 GSA employee conference in Crystal City, Virginia.
The closed Atlanta complex is named for Samuel Augustus "Sam" Nunn, Jr., who served for 24 years as a United States Senator from Georgia and whose daughter is the current Democratic Party nominee for a Georgia Senate seat.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Tuesday July 29 2014, @04:14PM
Yes, it's a problem. Yes, you should address it. But it's also true that your company is doing pretty well, with $50,000 million coming in the door with which to pay the $50 million in returns and plenty left over to pay for dealing with the returned boxes, so concluding that your company sucks at its job would be very incorrect.
I of course strive for perfection in government, as in everything else. I also know that we're all human, screw-ups happen, and that really really good is what is nearly always achievable in a human system. For example, the closest thing the world has to a perfect software shop [fastcompany.com] still has only 99.99% bug-free code.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.