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Karrick t1_jacddq8 wrote

Reply to comment by nim_opet in Consultants Gone Wild by ToffeeFever

Thank you. People don't understand what losing a significant part of your civil service actually means. Then they turn around and ask why the city takes so long to do shit.

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nim_opet t1_jacdqr3 wrote

There was a time when America was proud of its city halls and its governments; about the same time it was building infrastructure. But then certain political party….

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Louis_Farizee t1_jacn1kh wrote

The last time New York was proud of its government was the early Sixties. Things started going to hell under John Lindsay.

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Karrick t1_jacejrt wrote

Bloomberg was a disaster for the very concept of civil service in this city.

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Financial-Current289 t1_jacpqt0 wrote

Yes, the famously powerful republican party of new york city is consistently defunding the civil service, thank you for speaking about this.

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nim_opet t1_jacq34a wrote

Note I wrote about American society at large. New York is in America. I know reading is hard.

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Unlucky_Lawfulness51 t1_jacrbl4 wrote

It's a double edge sword. People in the agencies abuse their position and create inefficient bureaucracies. Being on the consultant side for public projects, they start and restart a hundred times over. A normal project that should take a year to build out last for 5 years. For this reason you have to bake in triple your fee because you are going to need to support a project for a signicantly long duration. Not seeing work completed can be draining.

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