[sandworm101]

I'm a government employee. I work with a few dozen people across multiple locations doing actual work. Not one of us is a contractor. Zero contactors are involved in any real work. The few we have are in support positions. We have some contracted IT people who manage some of our computer systems but don't have any access to what those computers actually do. We have contacted security guards at the front gate. And I think the cleaners are contracted out but as they have NEVER cleaned my office I don't see them much.

I think there is some observational bias going on in this thread.

[JackFr]

When I was a defense contractor it always struck me as weird that the guardhouse at USMC HQ at the Navy Annex was staffed by $12/hr private security guards.

On the other hand the commander of the group I was doing work for pointed out that a fully trained Marine private was far to costly an asset to waste checking visitor ids.