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> However as an employee in the government sector I can confirm ...

One person's anecdotal experience doesn't confirm anything. There are probably tens of millions of government employees in the United States alone.

> It's more then just being a large organization there is a real lack of competitive pressures that force efficiency.

That's true in many large organizations. Inefficiencies due to employees' (including managers') lack of exposure with any marketplace consequence are a very common, well-studied problem. See: Dilbert.



Having worked for both NASA and IBM, I'd have to agree that both are approximately as screwed up. Different ways, of course.




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