I feel like a lot of people hear this and think "the military has a lot of office chairs" or "the military has very, very, nice office chairs" and neither of these things are true, I could have gotten every piece of furniture the military provided at a quarter of the pricehttps://twitter.com/ellle_em/status/1288776750403670022 …
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The military buys absolute garbage and pays waaaaay over market price for all of it I mean if you don't believe that just remember they literally bought ME for six years, and paid ME several times my market value
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I don't think people realize that their calls to trim spending and be more efficient make it worse Like the specific perversity here is it costs so much because they are paying people to spend months making sure they're getting the best possible deal they can on office chairs
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I worked at a defense contractor, technically, for a year and got a peek at the world of procurement and oh man
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It's completely like the nerd stereotype of someone who spends a whole week driving around comparison shopping to save themselves like twenty bucks
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And yeah the worst thing about it is the cheapest chairs are the worst chairs, so they spent like 3x as much as any private sector civilian pays for ANY chair to buy themselves the WORST chair
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If you try to save that money by firing the people whose job it is to do this, you're the bad guy, because you're REMOVING the mechanisms put in place to control spending and ensure accountability
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Nice work if you can get it, and all It's this kind of thing that inspires the Joseph Hellers of the world more than anything on the battlefield
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That King of the Hill episode where the country erupts in scandal because Hank getting a haircut from the Army base accidentally reveals the sticker price of Bill giving someone a high-and-tight is thousands of dollars (of which Bill himself receives nothing)
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And the Army's only response to this is to stop giving haircuts altogether while Congress debates the matter, leading to a shaggy morale crisis throughout the base, until they use a bureaucratic loophole to reinstate Bill at even greater cost to the taxpayer
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The only unrealistic thing about it is the relative pettiness of the issue at hand, things like this happen literally all the time Maybe one day I'll officially tell the story of why the US Marine Corps was unable to process sexual assault reports for a whole year
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(My favorite part of that episode is Bill getting really mad that the $20 Hank tipped him - the most money anyone's personally given him in years - is technically a 0.05% tip and greatly insulting, like giving a waitress a penny)
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Perhaps they can afford the best office chairs on the market with one fewer contract for a new Star Trek ass rifle
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