BOP
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He needs to get his money back from where ever he went to college.
Of course, he's a football player; what are the chances he even went to class, and still passed?
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He needs to get his money back from where ever he went to college.
Of course, he's a football player; what are the chances he even went to class, and still passed?
BOP
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It's a shame that Kelly is a veteran. It baffles me how any veteran can be such a flaming liberal.
BOP
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EXCLUSIVE: A left-wing advocacy group is potentially committing election bribery by paying liberals for each friend and family they get to vote for George Soros-backed candidate Susan Crawford in this April's Wisconsin Supreme Court election.
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He spelled "...funded by the tax-payers..." incorrectly.
BOP
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I can see what my friends who are still working at the DoD are talking about. If I'd have gotten an email like that, I would have assumed that it was a phishing attempt, and would have reported it. "HR@OPM.GOV" I'd have been "Riiiight. Big HR is sending out an email, and on a Saturday. Yeah, that sounds EXACTLY like a phishing expedition."
All federal employees, contractor personnel, and military are required to take federally mandated training every year. Additionally, some employees (including military) such as contracting officer representatives (which I was for 15 years), contracting officers, and contract specialists are also required to take further training in certain subjects.
Among that training is
IT Security Awareness
Ethics Awareness
Insider Threat Awareness Training
As well as other federally and agency-mandated training.
DCPAS
The Defense Civilian Personnel Advisory Service (DCPAS) develops and oversees civilian human resource plans, policies, and programs for more than 900,000 Department of Defense employees worldwide.
She does make a good point, which I have made, which is that everything flows through the respective agencies' chain of command.
Not only that, but how someone managed to get an email to go from "HR@OPM.GOV" to over 2M people when the rest of us got our emails bounced back for "having too many addressees." They never defined exactly what that number was. Kind of like FB and its community standards.
And gods help the people who are on leave - although I didn't know anyone who didn't take their laptops with them on leave - out sick, having babies, taking care of sick or ill relations, transferred, or any number of things they could be out for. Elon is supposed to be a genius, but this move sounds like something a Gen Z would come up with, having little to no life experience or awareness.
BOP
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The Postal Service is at best a quasi Government agency. At best.
As for the rest, I'm not sure what he means by "the basics of a civilized society."
If he means the common defense, roads, things like that, he's absolutely correct. That pesky Constitution thing again.
The Government is spending tax-payer dollars (including, presumably, their own), and therefore have a duty to be good stewards of that money; to get the best bang for the buck, for whatever they spend the money on.
The problem with the general public talking out their asses, as they are wont to do, is that they have no conception of the processes, procedures, standards, and guidelines - let's face it, miles and miles of red tape regulations - that everyone that works for the government is theoretically constrained by.
The BLUF is that EVERY GD THING has a cost to it. Want to move your desk over there? There's a cost to that. Want to buy supplies? There's a cost to that. With few exceptions, you can't just go down to Wally World and buy sh*t. Want to have a program on your computer that EVERYBODY doesn't have (such as Project)? There's a cost for that. New laptops cost money. Monitors cost money. If you can imagine it, it cost money.
Not only that, but everything costs MORE money than a similar thing at Office Depot, or where ever. Everything has to be modified to meet Government criteria. You can't just take a box of Windows 10, or 11 and stick it on people's computers. It has to be modified to suit the specific needs of the Agency. Much of it, probably most of it has to do with security. They always talk about COTS, which is Commercial Off-the-Shelf items, but for Government agencies, there is no such thing. It all has to be modified for government use.
Even the credit card buys for things like office supplies (that don't have to be modified), at least in the DoD have very specific and narrow guidelines. Remember those crappy ball point pens that we used in the military? The ones that say "U.S. Government" on the barrels? The ones that didn't work half the time? Guess what? Those are made by industry for the blind, or whatever it's called, and government agencies are REQUIRED to buy a certain amount of them before they're allowed to go to Staples and credit card pens that actually work. It's so much fun running out of pens (because people tend to hoard them) and having to use those old things.
And amazing how many failed it.
BOP
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I had a supervisor almost stroke out with one of those "we're going to arrest you" phone calls. Thankfully, a retired Master-at-Arms Chief who was our security guy was right there to tell the guy to piss off and to talk her off the ledge.
Yeah ... such simple things especially if you DO NOT use your work email for personal business
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