[OftheOhio]

Excellent article and it explains a great deal. It should be mandatory reading for any young engineer. Your skills are not appreciated, you’re just another slave.

This has been happening at Wright Patterson for decades. I remember getting an award from the commander of Wrigt Laboratory as a contractor and that was a BFD at the time. I got a dime an hour pay cut and saw my “company” health insurance contribution increase 160 dollars a month. AMF, lol.

[Reily]

And they promote a work culture where the work goal is a “process” not outcome. This is now true for all technical work in government.

Example:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/nasas-new-mission-and-the-cult-of-management-155873900/#:~:text=Working%20for%20NASA%20means%20being%20involved%20in%20the,evident%20as%20one%20ascends%20the%20chain%20of%20command.