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Saturday, March 27th, 2010 08:53 pm
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.

Вот как надо, ребята. Хочу быть консультантом в мэрии Нью-Йорка, когда вырасту, ага.
Но всё-таки интересно бы знать - в чём это там специалист у них за 676 грандов? Что он делает? Ну, кроме, я думаю, того, что он родственник и знакомый какого-нибудь высокопоставленного кролика? Т.е. я понимаю, что консультанты не всё это в карман получают. Но всё же - 676 тыщ!
Эти же ребята перед этим сделали вот что:

SAIC, by the way, is the company the FBI threw off the job a few years ago after charging the agency $170 million for a virtual file system that never worked.

170М virtual file system? (голосом Janice:) Оh! My! God! Что там в этой системе?!

А, да, цель проекта:

CityTime's installation started in 1998 and was supposed to take five years. Officials promised that biometric scanners and automatic timeclocks on all personal computers would eliminate the age-old abuse of city workers punching clocks for their friends and save up to $60 million a year.

Логично.