[Milsurplus] Your Tax Dollars At Work, part nnnnnn

[Hubert Miller]

Well, the peacetime military’s only task is readiness and training, so i don’t understand “lack of time”.  They have nothing but time.
Well, maybe i’m too hard on them. This may be the same wastage in public sector industry, but writ large, same kind of brainlessness
but with more expensive things to waste. I certainly saw waste in the industry i worked in. Maybe it’s unfamiliarity with real-world prices
and values. I recall when i was working in telecom, a fellow worker was cleaning out an old switching system area, and he was packing
a waste paper box with Tektronix manuals. No clue about the outside world. I had to put a new-condition Tek 485 scope in a bin with
junk instruments, metal and canvas bags. There was no alternative procedure; harder to change anything than make an amendment to
the Constitution.
-Hue

From: Nick England [mailto:navy.radio at gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2017 2:29 PM
To: Hubert Miller <Kargo_cult at msn.com>; Military Surplus Mail List <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>; armyradios at yahoogroups.com; tetrode at googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Your Tax Dollars At Work, part nnnnnn

Why?
Because no one who works for the govt.  will get any credit, time, pay, or atta-boys for doing anything else. Instead, the tech who fills out a surplus equipt form will get yelled at for wasting time instead of working on other stuff that is really needed. The person who has to take them to the surplus depot should probably be doing something else and is just hauling scrap metal. The surplus warehouse folks are just piling scrap metal onto pallets. The person in charge of surplus sales is just trying to move scrap metal through the warehouse. Nobody in the chain gets any credit for doing anything to keep the gear from being treated like scrap metal. So the surplus dealer bidding on that pallet gets scrap metal at scrap metal prices. That's the only person in the chain who would get rewarded for gear in decent shape.
Easier to avoid all the hassle and get some flight time by kicking the stuff out of the helo.
Nick, who is extremely grateful to all the folks that didn't treat my toys like scrap metal.

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