.. Are you speaking from personal experience of selling things and services to the government here? Because if the answer to that is “No” you may, possibly, want to check if you remembered to remove those ideological blinders I mentioned.
The main point of the paperwork vendors to the state have to do is to make sure that crony capitalism doesn’t happen. If the process is very badly designed, that fails, but I’ve never worked anywhere that found it more obnoxious to do business with the government than with any other large customer. Usually it is less so.. The USG can’t be that much worse than the nordic countries. It’s still a first world state.
I can speak from personal experience. An executive for the contractor I work for was caught with a massive undisclosed conflict of interests.
This had two main effects: we must now listen to an annual mandatory ethics briefing, in addition to all the briefings and paper work inflicted on us from previous misbehavior. (Note the things talked about during said briefing generally have nothing to do with what the executive was caught doing.) Second, the executive was summarily fired and managed to fall upward into a high level job with the agency we contract with.
.. Are you speaking from personal experience of selling things and services to the government here? Because if the answer to that is “No” you may, possibly, want to check if you remembered to remove those ideological blinders I mentioned. The main point of the paperwork vendors to the state have to do is to make sure that crony capitalism doesn’t happen. If the process is very badly designed, that fails, but I’ve never worked anywhere that found it more obnoxious to do business with the government than with any other large customer. Usually it is less so.. The USG can’t be that much worse than the nordic countries. It’s still a first world state.
I can speak from personal experience. An executive for the contractor I work for was caught with a massive undisclosed conflict of interests.
This had two main effects: we must now listen to an annual mandatory ethics briefing, in addition to all the briefings and paper work inflicted on us from previous misbehavior. (Note the things talked about during said briefing generally have nothing to do with what the executive was caught doing.) Second, the executive was summarily fired and managed to fall upward into a high level job with the agency we contract with.