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NYC Drops $722M On CityTime Attendance System
theodp writes "New York City is reportedly paying 230 consultants an average annual salary of $400K for a computer project that is seven years behind schedule and vastly over budget. The payments continue despite Mayor Bloomberg's admission that the computerized timekeeping and payroll system — dubbed CityTime — is 'a disaster.' Eleven CityTime consultants rake in more than $600K annually, with three of them making as much as $676,000. The 40 highest-paid people on the project bill taxpayers at least $500K a year. Some of the consultants have been working at these rates for as long as a decade."
... oversight is on vacation? What does a project have to do to get sh!t canned? I could have not delivered a timekeeping and payroll system for 1/2 that!
I guess they need some kind of system to keep track of their timetables and salaries!
Where do i sign up?
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Exactly. Government always wastes money. They should have hired a private contractor instead. It would have turned out much better that way.
They are saving money, because any off-the-shelf time-tracking software would cost much more than $722 million. Oh, wait ...
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If the government had done it, it would have cost even more. I am sure the free market will punish these consultants accordingly.