The Washington Post has an interesting review of the company, CGI, who built the Obamacare web platform and the current employees. It appears the people who work for CGI are typical representative images of federal bloat.
dramatic faintingCGI apparently prides itself on it’s liberal work policies and now their poor staff is stressed from all the deadline work….  “Stressed” says they….
WaPo […]  The healthcare.gov debacle has taken its toll on the working environment at CGI Federal’s 10-story complex in Fairfax, Va., according to a staffer working on a related project who asked not to be named. “There’s been a lot of agitation and anger, because CGI really prides itself on having family flexibility,” he said, noting the firm’s liberal telework policy.
Instead, the Obamacare contract has sucked more and more staff off other projects, and people have been working around the clock to first get the site ready for Oct. 1, and then fix it when things started to go wrong. “There’s a lot of frustration,” the staffer said. “People are getting sick, fainting in conference calls.” That’s only an escalation in an already unstable work environment. The firm has grown very quickly and turnover is high, as people get poached by larger contractors that can pay higher salaries, the staffer said. Offices sometimes have more contractors than full-fledged staff — which makes things difficult when you’re putting together a project that requires as much specialized knowledge as a health-care exchange.  (continue reading)
fainting kitty fainting dog

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