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pistolero@p@fsebugoutzone.org (2026-07-23 06:58:35)
@SilverDeth @npc @phnt Man.  Years of my life consulting.  "Well, for what you want for your time, I could get *twelve* Bangladeshis!"  They can go on and get their twelve Bangladeshis, man, like, I'll be here when that finishes playing out.
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SilverDeth@SilverDeth@fsebugoutzone.org (2026-07-23 07:08:36)
@p @npc @phnt 

In my former life, I spend a few years working for a Contacting company - we were expensive and only hired real talent.  Rigorous testing for anyone before the job interview even took place.  We were expensive as f*ck.  Gen-X owner.  Nobody took our bids on RFP's seriously.  

Never once saw one of our bids on a project get picked up by the big boys or state government.

Not once.  They scoffed.

"We can hire 30 people from Palmer group for that!!!"
- 64 Year Old Boomer Department Head

(Palmer Group was a well known Jeet-Farm).

We were rolling in money, despite having never, once ever won a bid.

Our job was to show up after the "cheap labor" created a four-alarm fire, and fix it.  

And we charged those same 64 year old fat boomers through the nose to do it.

They'd rather pay twice - once for a shit job and then a premium to fix it - than just pay people to do good work up front.

I say it again: Fucking boomers.

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pistolero@p@fsebugoutzone.org (2026-07-23 07:37:59)
@SilverDeth @npc @phnt Shit, man.  If we were in the same region geographically, I'd be kinda surprised if we had never run into each other.