[katbyte]

sounds very much like security at the vancouver 2010 olympics and the G8/G10 summit. i worked as security doing airport screening of people (x-ray & mag) and oh boy i have plenty of stories. There was so much waste, gaming the contract/system so the government would pay for far more man hours of under qualified under trained workers. Like keeping 40 people on the clock when 5 would have been sufficient. Granted the police were not much better.

I had never worked security before, nor have I science.

[jacoblyles]

When you have profit maximizing contractors for an organization spending lots of Other People's Money, that creates all kinds of bad incentives.