Gov't Wants Techies to Play Musical Chairs

dsoltesz writes "Legislation that's been in the works to put a program in place to allow government techies to trade places with private sector counterparts for six to twelve month stints, just passed in the House. The government seems to be on the winning end of the Digital Tech Corps Act, until perhaps, the government IT workers realize the grass really is greener on the corporate side of the fence... If the bill makes it, it will be interesting to see if the concept actually gets implemented."

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migration of the pointy haired

[ashultz]

I was about to post that this was incredibly stupid. But then I realized that having mid level IT bosses rotate about wouldn't actually change much. They'd just go from being clueless in one place to being clueless in another. In fact, it might improve things because they'd have to admit total ignorance (instead of having it but not admitting it.)

But who am I kidding, the pointy haired never admit ignorance. Engineers on the ground probably won't even notice that their new bungee boss isn't from their company.

Bit of an identity crisis

[Daniel Dvorkin]

Early in the article, it says:

"... would create an exchange of mid-level information technology executives between the public and private sectors ..."

But then in the next paragraph, it says:

"... would allow private-sector IT experts to work for the federal government and federal employees to work for private companies ..."

So which is it -- are they going to be trading "executives", or "experts"? Because you can't have it both ways ...

is this for a new HGTV reality show?

[cheesyfru]

Welcome to Trading Cubes, the show where two techies trade jobs for one year to see who can make a bigger mess out of their respective employers! Today we have Rashib Akalam of InterCorp and John Williams of the Department of Defense. Rashib has been struggling lately with his new widget inventory project, and is hoping that John can come in and make sense of the tangled lines of Ada code. John has been having a lot of troubles lately with his missile guidance system, and is hoping that Rashib can prevent another "oopsy".

Will John get his widgets straight? Will Rashib blow up China? Let's trade cubes!