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		_JamesA_ 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pentagon to terminate $5.1B in IT contracts with A... The big 3 get hired to protect managers. Hire a smaller consulting firm and the project goes sideways you both get fired. Hire a big firm and it goes sideways they get fired - until the next project.

pmontra 7 months ago | [–]

Or: you both get fired but they hire you because of all the money they made anyway.

franktankbank 7 months ago | [–]

Sounds like the contracts are not written correctly then.

arbor_day 7 months ago | [–]

Yup, sort of the whole point. There's a lot of cost plus contracts floating around here, which is a terrible incentive.

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