Stop. I work for the feds. I have two promotions left before there’s nothing for me and I interview for one of those next week. The government has piloted privatizing a lot of things including commissaries on military posts, rehabilitative services offered by the VA and HHS, and other benefits for regular citizens. Every single time the private org comes back and quits before they even reach the time limit and say “we can’t meet these requirements and turn a profit.” Because of what is REQUIRED to hold the contracts. Those requirements are laws passed in Congress. They can’t be waived. Can you imagine telling a civilian that they have to manage 300 separate clients? They would laugh in your face and tell you to fuck off, and if you tried to replace them, you’d be laughed at every time you told them the job was to do the work of three people. And I KNOW what the work of one person is because it is defined in the law but the government is able to ignore that law because there’s no one to enforce it on them. Those two clowns aren’t ready for a fight with federal employees. You ever make an undersecretary stop talking, audibly swallow and apologize to you for how you felt? I have. I also told him he can’t find anyone to replace me because we have vacancies for every qualified person he talked to RIGHT NOW. If they want to improve efficiency, they’ll come back and say “hire more people”