this kind of stuff goes on EVERYWHERE. I was a contractor for the USPS Office of Inspector General. They had all of these offsite wankfests that go on for days, and an annual wankfest where they flew all 700 or so agency personnel to DC from the field offices, and put them all up in a hotel for a WEEK. They did that every year while they pat each other on the ass and say "job well done" to each other. One year, they decided to move the event at last minute...and forfeited the $90,000 deposit on the first site because they didnt' give enough advanced notice. The only ones working for this whole week period are, you guessed it, the contractors lol. Oh, btw, they pay the contracting company at least DOUBLE their salary in real $$ for every body in the place. During the boom years, it was closer to 3 times the cost.
This same organization gives EVERY employee a laptop, a docking station, a palm pilot, and caves in to every silly request for special treatment, like personal printers, LCD screens etc....so it costs about $3000 a pop to set each user up. At one point, they even spent $5000 of taxpayer money on a treadmill for the boss at the time..but someone came to their senses and they got rid of it.
They have people in that joint that couldnt' poor piss out a boot with the directions printed on the heel, all making $70,000 plus a year. They give themselves "pay for performance", which as best I can figure, is a bonus for doing their fucking jobs lol. they pride themselves on their "diversity"...50% minority workforce. Gross incompetence and terrible job performance isn't punished...it's rewarded, since eveyone gets a bonus. The backstabbing and petty bs that goes on there is absolutely unbelievable.
Folks, this is the TIP of the iceberg. What makes this especially scary is that the Inspector General's office is the WATCHDOG organization...so it this kind of stuff is going on there, you got REAL problems lol.
Now, a bunch of guys, mostly agents, left this place to go to..you guessed it, TSA lol.