Cost Plus Contracts

For those of you out there who are not familiar with shitshow rhetoric, 'cost plus' is a phrase used by the government to describe a contract awarded to the shitshow where 'cost plus a profit" is built in. This means if it costs the shitshow $1 million dollars to build something, they bill the government $1 million dollars PLUS some profit. For all you hard working tax paying Americans, this should make you want to go puke in the toilet all night if you could see how the shitshow spends your hard earned money. Countless engineering hours are pissed down the toilet in Configuration Control Board (CCB)Meetings, Engineering Review Board Meetings (ERB), Quality Audits (QA), and countless other alphabet soap type named meetings that make us poor engineers want to wash our mouths out with buckshot. Let's not forgot the army of independent auditors and contractors the government deems necessary to sit in the above mentioned pointless meetings to ask pointless questions and to generate pointless action items that waste thousands of hours that could otherwise be spent doing real, actual work. You see, the bigger the shitshow created, the more engineering hours that are charged and the more the shitshow can bill the government under the cost plus structure which means bigger profits for the shitshow. This is wrong on so many goddamn levels.

So folks, the next time you cut a check to the IRS to pay your Federal taxes, just remember that money is necessary to pay the 5 government bean counters to manage every engineer at the shitshow who attempts to do some real work. Not to mention, the shitshow does everything within its power to piss away as many of your tax dollars as it can also. So its a double whammy on your hard earned tax dollars.

Because I see my tax dollars squandered, I throw rocks.