Miscellaneous from references

Chapter 1 - Ref. 1: German military

Here's some insight into one of these bullshit jobs, the one I'm doing right now to pay for uni, two days a week.

The Germany military has a subcontractor that does their IT work.

The IT firm has subcontractor that does their logistics.

The logistics firm has a subcontractor that does their personell management and I work for that company.

Let's say soldier A moves to an office two rooms further down the hall.

Instead of just carrying his computer over there, he has to fill out a form.

The IT subcontractor will get the form, people will read it and approve it and forward it to the logistics firm.

The logistics firm will then have to approve the moving down the hall and will request personell from us.

The office people in my company will then do whatever they do and now I come in.

I get an email, be at barracks B at time C. Usually these barracks are 100 to 500 kilometres away from my home, so I will get a rental car. I take the rental car, drive to the barracks, let dispatch know that I arrived, fill out a form, unhook the computer, will load the computer into a box, seal the box, have a guy from the logistics firm carry the box to the next room, where I unseal the box, fill out another form, hook up the computer, call dispatch to tell them how long I took, get a couple of signatures, take my rental car back home, send dispatch a letter with all of the paperwork and then get payed.

So instead of the soldier carrying his computer for five meters, two people drive for a combined 6-10 hours, fill out around 15 pages of paperwork and waste good 400 € of taxpayers' money.