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Booz Allen’s decision to cancel a sponsorship ought to worry anyone who cares about Washington culture.
From the article:
This week, with WorldPride projected to draw three million visitors in just a few months, Booz Allen abruptly withdrew as a sponsor — apparently worried that merely supporting a global gay festival would put it on the wrong side of its dominant customer: President Donald Trump’s federal government.
Pluralistic: Booz Allen ticketmastered America’s public lands (30 Nov 2022) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Want to pay your $7 to hike the prized Coyote Buttes North at Arizona's Vermilion Cliffs National Monument? Sure, just pay a $9 "lottery application fee." Even by junk fee standards, this is a very junky fee – it's not a fee for paying a fee, it's a fee for the chance to pay a fee.
Only 4-10% of lottery entrants get a permit (Coyote Buttes is a very fragile ecosystem and entrance is severely limited), which means that Recreation.gov's rake from this junk fee is about 1,000% of what it actually makes on hiking permits.
Well, at least that money is going to Coyote Buttes, right? Preserving the petroglyphs and the dinosaur tracks and whatnot?
Nope. The Bureau of Land Management gets the $7 entry fee from the 64 daily hikers who are lucky enough to visit Coyote Buttes. The $14,400 in lottery fees that the day's hopeful hikers pay to Recreation.gov for a shot at a permit all go to a giant military contractor: Booz Allen.
I know. What. The. Actual. Fuck.
Databricks (Errors) & Pro Data Engineer Certification Time…
Ooooh, what a “fun time” this is…. Such as finding errors in Databricks online learning/course lessons… more below.
First — the JOB MARKET curse for many of us. Because of not having 3–10 years of hands-on work experience in D.E. (Data Engineering), I’ve had to reset and resort to gaining more certifications, while attempting to keep previous certifications & project knowledge in my brain. — — — The current state of the economy is sidelining sooooo many of us as a result of the:
Booz Allen, 2.500 Kişiyi İşten Çıkarıyor: ABD Kamu Harcamaları Danışmanları Vurdu
💼 Booz Allen, çalışanlarının %7’siyle yollarını ayırıyor 🏛️ ABD hükümetinin sivil projelerdeki harcama kısıntısı kararın temel nedeni ⚖️ Savunma projeleri devam ederken, sivil hizmetler küçülüyor 💼 İşten Çıkarmaların Nedeni Ne? ABD’nin en büyük devlet danışmanlık firmalarından Booz Allen Hamilton, yaklaşık 2.500 kişiyi işten çıkaracağını duyurdu. Bu kararın arkasında, ABD hükümetinin sivil…
Pentagon Contract Cuts: $5.1B Deals Axed Over Waste
Aakhir Tak – In Shorts Pentagon terminates $5.1 billion in IT service contracts. Defense Secretary Hegseth cited “wasteful spending” for the cuts. Major firms like Accenture, Deloitte, Booz Allen Hamilton are impacted. These Pentagon contract cuts aim for nearly $4 billion in savings. Services targeted will be brought in-house (in-sourcing). Aakhir Tak – In Depth Pentagon Announces Major…
The decision accompanies the defense contractor's decision to drop pro-DEI policies to comply with a Trump executive order
Booz Allen Removes Subcontractor Who Wrote Report on DOGE Access
(Bloomberg) -- The government contractor Booz Allen Hamilton on Friday night said it had dismissed a subcontractor who prepared a draft repo
Deloitte's BDIP (broker data import programs) and Restricted Entities.
This is a dire warning about specific compliance requirements you need to verify before joining companies like Deloitte or McKinsey (not sure about them) and NOT make the same mistake that some of us did. Such as in joining up with Deloitte. Before you sign an offer letter for a new job – be sure, BE VERY SURE you find out about the compliance FINANCIAL requirements – BEFORE you sign that offer letter and waste time onboarding. BEFORE you have to do the compliance…
