[djray]

The problem is that this is the first time any of us are hearing of these inefficiencies. Were these concerns raised with the author's state representative? The oversight committee? Why was the press not informed if lives were at risk? Why was pressure not heaped upon senior management and the powers that be to effect actual change years ago when the problems were first observed? Merely griping about how frustrating your job was categorically does no fucking good, and neither does writing about it after the fact. You may think you're fighting the good fight, but this isn't a grassroots protest if the only people you were complaining to were your manager and/or your colleagues.

Yes, inefficiency and bureaucracy suck. No, the answer is not to scrap it all without knowing what the hell you're doing and "just wing it", which is exactly what Musk and co are doing. Strangely enough, the solution is probably a compromise. Compromise takes two sides actually talking to each other, with people familiar with the matter present, and an acceptance that the goal is to make the process better without negatively impacting important things like security, safety and data integrity.

Please forgive the tone of this message, but I can't help wonder how many thousands of people are going to die because of the effective abolishment of USAID and other programmes.

[jazzyjackson]

If it's your first time hearing about it you haven't been paying attention. The healthcare.gov debacle was headline news, and the USDS that DOGE subsumed was established to address these problems but was ineffectual. The American people voted for effects, for better or worse.

[marcus0x62]

> The problem is that this is the first time any of us are hearing of these inefficiencies.

If this is the first time you’ve heard of inefficiencies of this kind, you’re in a filter bubble.

[djray]

To be clear, I meant the specific issues the OP was talking about in the article, not the overall inefficiencies. I was speaking to the fact that the author had not seemed to have raised the matters with anyone who was actually in a position to do something about it. I apologise for the lack of clarity.

[marcus0x62]

From the article:

> The White House got involved, requiring months of in-person mediation meetings. I was never able to get the domain back

[insane_dreamer]

> The problem is that this is the first time any of us^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H I are^H^H^H am hearing of these inefficiencies.

fixed it for you

[insane_dreamer]

Also these types of -- very valid -- frustrations, are common in any very large organization, private or public.