The government buys all the software, hardware, and pays for any training we need to bring our skills up to date to effectively do our jobs
The government buys software licenses and hardware, but those remain the property of the government. The government does not pay for any training. That is why they pay so much - they expect us to be already trained.
government employees serve as supervisors. In fact, it’s policy in our department that government employees supervise the contractors directly.
That is either a blatant lie or a massively illegal operation.
I had to explain what I had been working on for the past year and why I deserved a raise
Don't spend that 2.6% all in one place now!
I quit a few months after I saw the numbers
You quit your six figure job as a senior software engineer because you "saw the numbers" and were offended at the waste?
When I confronted management about what I considered fraud and demanded solutions, the answer was we will not pay for training
Didn't the author say that the government paid for training?
Sorry Slashdotters, this is a work of fiction.
The next day, October 9, 2010, Swartz used both the “ghost laptop” and the “ghost macbook” to systematically and rapidly access and download an extraordinary volume of articles from JSTOR. The pace was so fast that it brought down some of JSTOR’s computer servers.
Perhaps the Acer didn't have gigabit ethernet like the Mac does. That comes in handy when you break into the wiring closet and connect directly to the switch.
I wonder if we could work more closely with Europe and Japan so together we'd get all the data we need without having to foot the whole bill.
We already do that. One of the key instruments on NASA's Terra satellite is Japan's ASTER. Terra is on year 11 of a 5 year mission. But Japan's funding in this area is much smaller than that of the US.
Does anyone know anything about how the US network integrates with it's foreign equivelants?
There are no foreign equivalents. There is collaboration, but US funding and capabilities dwarf those of other countries. Foreign governments do not fund much space activities other than subsidizing industry satellites, but those aren't very useful for science.
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