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by squidfood 4054 days ago
If you work in an agency, you have to deal with the fact that (for example), every separate Intranet web service was built by a separate low bidder.

So I log into one insane and poor system to do travel, a different one for purchases, a different one for HR forms, etc. etc. and they're all ugly, hideous and broken (and let's not get started on the 20 passwords with different complexity rules and change schedules).

Regardless of politics, there are people working for the government doing approved-of things who need better organizational support from the top.