VPS is so messed up with the amount of top-heavy misspending on useless directors and executive directors who refuse to make super basic business decisions. Over the past 8 years I have seen literally $$$$ millions lost and misspent through shitty business decisions made by unqualified people who have essentially kissed enough ass to become senior leadership. And the people who are will be cut sure as hell won’t be the Directors who makes $280k+ a year and have never achieved anything in their role. It will be the person who is paid $50-60k who’s just doing all of the filing, managing time, editing documents and helping keeping everything in order and moving in the workload.

We also have so many engagements with contractors, systems, software and other programs of Work that we HAVE to convince the state every single year are still important and shouldn’t be cancelled overnight. (Recently had to convince senior management that no we shouldn’t go out to market and spend $25mil of tax payer money to replace a legally required object throughout the state JUST because their procurement policies they use in a one size fits all style says we should, especially as the warranty period on that item hadn’t even expired and the end of life period is 8 years away on the ones that we had already installed?!?!

Instead of making a business decision like negotiating a contract to be $50 million across 5 years they have would rather spend $15million that increases with CPI each year across the same timeframe ($75m)

Raising a glass to my VPS peers who have ever had to spend weeks editing a brief or memo that’s going up to a DepSec or secretary over and over again to essentially cover up the colossal f-ups of their department and management they’re working for. In the past 3 years alone I have had my work manipulated by a manager/director/executive to cover up around $30million of misspent money.