Every tech person I know who tried to work in NYC government burned out rather quickly. The government is so sclerotic and shackled to laws meant to break up the Tammany Hall machine that its impossible to do anything good or fast.

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steveBK123 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

A lot of stuff gets bid out, and the procurement process is overly burdensome...

Which results in a limited number of qualified bidders collecting rents, and then subbing out the work to subs who then sub it out further.. such that its all done offshore for peanuts while we pay real money to some schmuck who ticked the right boxes in order to collect said rents.

	▲	ch4s3 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Briefly in the mid 2010s the NYC Department of City Planning tried to build some stuff in house and hired some good people, but the old ghouls in the city ruined it by obstruction and everyone left by the end of 2017. City government in most US cities is so fucked, it's really wild. Another guy I know who graduated from NYU Wagner as a planner got hired by the city to do some mapping work but his boss miscoded his job in a way that precluded him from ever being promoted, so he quit. As of 2023 at least there were people working in city planning who didn't have computers and refused to use them, professional staff.

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indoordin0saur 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Sort of off-topic but fun fact: Tammany Hall is now a dogfood and kitty litter store!

Source: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Petco/@40.7364792,-73.9890...

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GauntletWizard 4 hours ago | parent [-]

That's their post breakup HQ - they moved in there in 1929. The Boss Tweed days were in 190 Nassau Street and 141 East 14th Street (demolished)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammany_Hall#Headquarters

190 Nassau Street - https://maps.app.goo.gl/3zjkd2mC6PwAYVB26?g_st=ac

	▲	indoordin0saur 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Well it was after Boss Tweed but pre-breakup