[carrja99]

DOGE will be an interesting case study in the years to come to say the least. A friend was contacted by them in an attempt to recruit him to help rebuild the nations aviation systems from the ground up as a 1099 contractor reporting directly to Sean Duffy. The recruiter advertised it as a side hustle on evenings and weekends paying an abmysal hourly wage. When my friend pointed out that the comp was far below what he makes, the recruiter countered with the prestige that will come with having worked for DOGE.

[pjc50]

> prestige that will come with having worked for DOGE.

This seems like a highly fragile currency. If things continue to deteriorate a future administration may end up running its own reprisals trials against DOGE staff.

[mdhb]

I mean I think it would be a fair assumption that there’s a very very real chance that havinng worked at DOGE will come with credible threats to your safety in the future. This is a team that is currently in the process of killing peoples grandparents by cutting them off from social security, building databases of immigrants and people with autism among a million other fuckups.

People aren’t going to just let that slide. I really don’t think they should expect to live in comfort and anonymity for the rest of their days if you look at how these kinds of things have played out historically with only a few counterexamples (I.e the East German Stasi come to mind as one)

[sanderjd]

The prestige of being unable to include it on your resume if you ever want to be able to work again.

[Smeevy]

Maybe they list it as "Consulting" and list vague achievements in government cybersecurity auditing?

A bunch of them seem young enough to just leave it off and say they were in school. Maybe DOGE counts as a student cybersecurity project?

[SketchySeaBeast]

Oh, I'm sure some companies admire the "move fast, break things, don't care who you hurt, just follow orders" ethos.

[roflyear]

It's a great case study of someone having no knowledge of something coming in and saying "we can save half the budget" then, oops - saying maybe they can do 5% of the original promise, lol.

I wonder how much DOGE is going to cost at the end of the day? I hope not literally billions of dollars, so maybe the $100b-200b they save will be net positive after the lawsuits, etc..

[insane_dreamer]

Rebuilding something as critical as the nations’ aviation system using underpaid 1099s working nights/weekends is certainly not the way to build a robust and fault-tolerant system. Idiots!

[dzhiurgis]

Ah yes, we should drop $20 billion dollars to some consultant instead. Who will hire incompetent people who'll do 30 minutes of actual work per day.

[dzhiurgis]

Would doing same work being contracted via big four consultant for 1/10th of the cost with 3x more meetings while moving 5x slower be more prestigious?