As a Canadian myself, I have heard many stories from ex-DND employees a few years ago when I was working for a defence contractor in Ottawa that was hiring lots of ex military guys to work on projects. One ex-DND guy once told me a good story that happened a couple of years ago at a DND facility here in Canada. A DND project team wanted to purchase a computer system to do special work and was about 100 000$. They finally got it, tried it and found out it wasn't the right system to do the work they wanted to perform. Instead of returning it back, get a refund from the seller, they just shrank wrapped it, and stored it indefinitely in a DND warehouse to collect dust forever (and not to mention the cost for storage). Then they bought another system for about the same price that was good enough to do the work. WHAT A WASTE OF OUR MONEY!
This is only one example but there are TONS of stupid waste like this at DND and I am sure at many other government agencies.
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As a Canadian myself, I have heard many stories from ex-DND employees a few years ago when I was working for a defence contractor in Ottawa that was hiring lots of ex military guys to work on projects. One ex-DND guy once told me a good story that happened a couple of years ago at a DND facility here in Canada. A DND project team wanted to purchase a computer system to do special work and was about 100 000$. They finally got it, tried it and found out it wasn't the right system to do the work they wanted to perform. Instead of returning it back, get a refund from the seller, they just shrank wrapped it, and stored it indefinitely in a DND warehouse to collect dust forever (and not to mention the cost for storage). Then they bought another system for about the same price that was good enough to do the work. WHAT A WASTE OF OUR MONEY! This is only one example but there are TONS of stupid waste like this at DND and I am sure at many other government agencies.