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re: Latest from DOGE: Agencies often have more software licenses than employees
Posted on 2/25/25 at 9:40 am to Bard
Posted on 2/25/25 at 9:40 am to Bard
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When has the federal government closed out thousands of positions only to quickly refill them with contract workers?
The federal government fills gaps in workload with contractors every fricking day.
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Posted on 2/25/25 at 9:54 am to BigPerm30
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Most shocking part of those revelations is that Winzip is still in business
And now you know how its still in business. Big daddy gubmint keeping it going.
Posted on 2/25/25 at 9:59 am to gaetti15
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If you have more people retiring/leaving than you originally had licenses when you set up the contract. You could wind up in a spot where you are paying fir more licenses than employees using them...until the contract for the license renews.
Double??? Paying for 10K using 5K ? Really?
It's a lot more like people running a business with a bottomless pocket book and no one, I mean NO ONE concerned about expenses.
I work for a fortune 500 company and we do without software because they don't have an extra license.
Posted on 2/25/25 at 10:06 am to LSUbest
Software licenses? Sure, clean up expired licenses as required at every organization.
We’re not going to be able to balance the budget with that announcement though.
We’re not going to be able to balance the budget with that announcement though.
Posted on 2/25/25 at 10:08 am to Friedbrie
LOL, someone isnt doing their job
or
This is a good way to fund someone to push your agenda.
or
This is a good way to fund someone to push your agenda.
Posted on 2/25/25 at 10:13 am to BigPerm30
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Most shocking part of those revelations is that Winzip is still in business and someone is actually paying for those licenses.
Too many ignorant windows users.
If you're still using Windows, you should not have a computer.
Posted on 2/25/25 at 10:14 am to Friedbrie
This is one that just highlights how poorly managed everything is, in reality, there is no management.
Depending on the software, this is a pretty common practice. The red flag obviously is the level that they are above the employment numbers. Should be pretty easy to do a rolling ~5 year average of employees for a department, assume an allowable variance %, and reduce licenses down to that number.
Just shows how little ANYTHING actually gets looked at in the government. Everything is on auto-pilot if it is a system related item.
Depending on the software, this is a pretty common practice. The red flag obviously is the level that they are above the employment numbers. Should be pretty easy to do a rolling ~5 year average of employees for a department, assume an allowable variance %, and reduce licenses down to that number.
Just shows how little ANYTHING actually gets looked at in the government. Everything is on auto-pilot if it is a system related item.
Posted on 2/25/25 at 11:06 am to DisplacedBuckeye
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The federal government fills gaps in workload with contractors every fricking day.
They aren't replacing thousands of terminated positions with contractors without getting the funding for those positions reinstated (which is part of the goal behind cutting those positions in the first place). But when USAID cuts those ~10k positions, you be sure to come back and link when they refill them all with contractors.
This post was edited on 2/25/25 at 11:29 am
Posted on 2/25/25 at 11:14 am to gaetti15
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If you have more people retiring/leaving than you originally had licenses when you set up the contract. You could wind up in a spot where you are paying fir more licenses than employees using them...until the contract for the license renews.
The vast majority of software licenses are for one year. (Winzip is typically one year). This scenario would work if you really think that about 64% of the entire GSA retired in one year and hardly anybody got replaced leaving 24k unused WinZip licenses with 13k employees.
This is what happened. They got a budget. In order to keep the budget where it is (or higher), they kept rubber stamping the invoices for these software licenses every year.
Posted on 2/25/25 at 12:59 pm to Bard
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They aren't replacing thousands of terminated positions with contractors without getting the funding for those positions reinstated
Look, it's OK for you to just say that you don't have a clue how any of this works.
It's amazing how confident some of you are in these discussions, when you're talking out of your asses.
Posted on 2/25/25 at 1:22 pm to gaetti15
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If you have more people retiring/leaving than you originally had licenses when you set up the contract. You could wind up in a spot where you are paying fir more licenses than employees using them...until the contract for the license renews.
No, you fricking reassign them
Posted on 2/25/25 at 3:19 pm to DisplacedBuckeye
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Look, it's OK for you to just say that you don't have a clue how any of this works.
My dear, winter child.
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It's amazing how confident some of you are in these discussions, when you're talking out of your asses.
I'm confident because this is part of what I have been doing for a living for over a decade and a half. How about you? Other than flinging short, glib answers, you've provided nothing to support your claim.
Prove me wrong though, prove to me how they'll cut the job positions, cut the funding for them, but magically fill the non-existent positions and pay for them with non-existent funds.
Posted on 2/25/25 at 3:40 pm to Friedbrie
They should call rocket mortgage.
Posted on 2/25/25 at 4:07 pm to Friedbrie
Even allowing for licenses on computers used as backups (they do fail from time to time, I've had it happen to me), the ratio of licenses/employees is ridiculous.
And not every employee needs WinZip.
And not every employee needs WinZip.
Posted on 2/25/25 at 5:30 pm to Bard
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I'm confident because this is part of what I have been doing for a living for over a decade and a half. How about you?
I'm confident because this is what I've been doing for over two decades.
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Prove me wrong though, prove to me how they'll cut the job positions, cut the funding for them, but magically fill the non-existent positions and pay for them with non-existent funds.
Sorry, but I have to call bullshite on your claim that you've been "doing this" for any amount of time.
Posted on 2/25/25 at 5:33 pm to cubsfan5150
It’s disgusting that you don’t find waste noteworthy. Liberal scum
Posted on 2/25/25 at 6:16 pm to DisplacedBuckeye
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Sorry, but I have to call bullshite on your claim that you've been "doing this" for any amount of time.
You can call it all you want, but it's not answering.
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I'm confident because this is what I've been doing for over two decades.
Posted on 2/25/25 at 6:29 pm to Friedbrie
How are they finding this stuff so quickly? Nee releases every day.
Posted on 2/25/25 at 6:38 pm to Bard
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You can call it all you want, but it's not answering.
I've answered just as much as you have.
Sorry to smack your "trust me, bro" into the ground where it belongs.
Good talk, though.
Posted on 2/25/25 at 6:41 pm to DisplacedBuckeye
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I'm confident because this is what I've been doing for over two decades.
Are you a government contractor?
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