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croes 14 days ago

They got trained in all the department activities and laws they now work in?

How many years of training were that?

pc86 14 days ago | parent | next [-]

You seem to think that every government agency does highly specialized incredibly specific work that you couldn't possibly have any idea how to manage. That's absolutely not the case. Sure there are absolutely certain jobs etc. where that may be the case - certain engineering departments in perhaps DOE come to mind, that sort of thing.

99% of the government is not that. It's paperwork, databases, forms. Not saying it's not important work, I'm saying it doesn't take a genius to look at the workflow for the vast majority of the government and understand it, and see opportunities for better efficiency.

rbanffy 14 days ago | parent [-]

> It's paperwork

Paperwork, with a mind-numbing set of rules you need to pay attention to, that can affect people's lives in very serious ways. Just a couple days back a guy with protected status was deported to a gulag in El Salvador by a "clerical error".

pc86 14 days ago | parent [-]

Can you explain how DOGE and deportations are related?

rbanffy 13 days ago | parent [-]

Deportations of people with protected status happen when someone doesn’t pay the attention needed while doing paperwork.

The point being DOGE people are incompetent to assess the work of a government they have zero knowledge about.

blatantly 14 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I lost the thread a bit. Are we talking about Doge? Yes that is a abysmal. No defence for that.

But in general people need to learn some stuff on the job. E.g. hire an 18 year old hacker and by 20 they are leading projects, debugging code, preparing for SOC compliance etc. Is possible.