Wow, another disgruntled KBR employee. I ahve worked with KBR for 16 months now, and I have still not understood why these contractors whine about everything. "I have to sleep in a tent. I have to sleep on a cot." Maybe they should get a kleenex company to come over here and work for KBR. All I hear is complaining. Get over it! You chose the job, close your mouth and do it. We work for the militray, so if that means they get a bed and we sleep on the floor, so be it. You are not entitled to the American standard of living.
A KBR employee whining over here is like dust in Iraq. It's everywhere and you can;t do anything about it.
KBR neds competition? Do you realize that pulling 40,000 employees out of Iraq and replacing them with a new company would be a huge mistake, money and business wise? I don't know where these complaints from Army officials are coming from claiming we aren't getting the job done. The numbers speak for themselves in that area. The bases were built by KBR. the elctricity is produced by KBR. HVAC, DFAC's, HAZMAT, CARPENTRY,. The list goes on and on! How are you continue to put down a company with so many accomplishments. I believe this is purely political and KBR will get the majority of the contracts again. Smoke and mirrors for the Liberals.
As I said, another disgruntled KBR employee. Wow, surprising. The military is over here outside the wire bsting their asses to keep us KBR employees safe back on the post, without a word. Grow up and do the damn job you signed up to do. Don't like it? Go home.
2) As for the furniture; as I wrote in my previous post: KBR intentionally carted away an entire base's living quarters furniture supposedly because it was purchased under a different contract. They stacked it up in 2 giant piles on the ground, outside a warehouse and posted guards on it. After a few weeks they banded it, loaded it on flat beds and hauled it off. The new occupants were left without furniture for months. It's not like the stuff wasn't there or in perfectly serviceable condition when it was removed.
This is just one example of KBR maleficence. The base's KBR management knew what they were doing and did it with a "F-YOU" in-your-face attitude to the base's Polish command. There are many more examples, particularly in the MNDs.
The only KBR employees I've dealt with who were worth a damn were the truck drivers. Rejecting and despising outcome-based performance standards doesn't work for them. And don't think KBR can't be replaced. Heck, most of their workers are actually sub-contracted 3rd-parties so replacing their management would be the only change. Flour-Daniels is already doing much of the facilities support on my base and they're far better than KBR. Since they took over support for our trailers we don't have to call and argue with to get our septic tanks pumped out and it's done before it floods the road. Flour Daniels will also respond within an hour to an emergency work order. They also don't pull-up the porta-johns from the pedestrian routes and cluster them together in one area -for ease of servicing no doubt. There are some very good reasons why KBR employees are nicknamed Karnies.