alt Hacker NewsThe military is like this. Higher Headquarters decides to contract out maintenance and logistical support for $aircraft_fleet. Uniformed maintainers go home in Friday and show up Monday making a lot more money to do the same job but without risk of getting posted or deployed.
Contractor fees come out because of a different pot of money, so perverse incentives abound.
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LPisGood • today at 1:09 AM
Don’t those uniformed maintainers get reassigned to other military jobs or are they allowed to work as a contractor while being active military?
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stackghost • today at 3:06 AM
s/in Friday/on Friday/g
This is almost formalized in UK trains under TUPE. Train companies like Avanti exist as shells; they don't own track, trains, or stations, and when the franchise shifts to a different company the vast majority of the staff are taken on. Because - guess what - they're the people who can do the job and are in the right place.
Someone called this form of privatization accounting "playing at shops". It is slowly coming to an end as they are re-nationalized.