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unjessing

Government employee and a show

Aug 18, 2010 10:22

I’m currently at Camp Murray, wading through the paperwork and bureaucracy part of my employment. I suppose I can’t be too surprised at this point. I’ve been in the military for nearly ten years. I’ve gotten relatively efficient at the forms, but there always seems to be some new system that will streamline the process that needs to be learned. ( Read more... )

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jalajscion August 19 2010, 01:57:13 UTC

The show: Beautiful. I wish was there to see you perform. I hope the job works out for you.

DTS, urk.... hrollaug August 19 2010, 02:42:48 UTC

Ya know the AF General that "sold" that system claimed it would save millions.
It does, because the travel offices could lay off people that know what they are doing, and push the work off to idjots (like you and me) that don't.
Of course that savings doesn't count the cost it takes for us to figure out the travel system... It once took three hours of us to figure out how to route someone from Seattle to Honolulu a side trip to Maui, back to Honolulu then to Seattle.

I don't use a scanner, since I have a FAX machine I just FAX all the receipts in at once. The problem with scanning and e-mailing is the size limit they put on attachments at the DTS office...grr, having to size the document, then having Travel reject the document because the resolution is so low they can't read it...grrr

DTS also cost almost 10x what the original estimate to deploy

PS, The general in question went to work for a DTS contractor after he retired

Re: DTS, urk.... unjessing August 19 2010, 13:48:06 UTC

Yeah... There was a good history of the issue with Northrop Grumman on "Citizens Against Government Waste" website. Here's the link: http://councilfor.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=reports_dts
I think the conclusion says it all.

Re: DTS, urk.... hrollaug August 19 2010, 14:02:27 UTC

As noted in that piece (good piece too) other agencies are now having to use DTS, Redbow (redbowofdl) works for the EPA, and they started having to use it this year

On the plus side, it is easier to use now, then when I started using it over 5 years ago

Re: DTS, urk.... hrollaug August 19 2010, 15:07:06 UTC

One of the "newer" features in DTS, is the ability to "clone" previous travel orders. Really nice if you go to the same place over-and-over (90% of my travel is to the same torpedo range).

I just cloned my last trip and created the new travel orders, in under 10 minutes.

That part actually works well.

andi_sunrider August 19 2010, 04:32:27 UTC

What time does the show start at? I'm not seeing it on the link....

Show times unjessing August 19 2010, 13:42:05 UTC

Doors are at 8, curtain's at 9. :)