Unions promote laziness and lowest-bidder performance at top-shelf prices?
That would still be better than what government contracts seem to be producing. One of my last trips before getting laid off, I was sent to a site to conduct testing.
The site was not complete or near ready for testing when I arrived.
Testing and troubleshooting revealed that wiring had been improperly configured and installed due to faulty cable run sheets.
My team was told that the run sheets were correct and we were not allowed to consult equipment documents again.
The testing and training events were complete washes due to managerial and engineering incompetence, which I pointed out a bit more than bluntly in a conference call.
They tried to disprove me for a month before sending a team to correct the problem I identified in the first few hours of testing.
This was done at a cost to the government of $60,000.
In my last few weeks at the company, I volunteered to manage a project that our contract people had messed up. Our guaranteed profit was to be smaller than our standard contract. My bosses made the decision to refuse the contract. I looked around the table at that point and ralized that all of the guys I had "grew up with" and built the organization with had been pushed out. At that point, I knew I was done.
