Thursday, March 25, 2010
The envy of highway workers everywhere.
The next time you are driving down the road and you see four or five guys standing in front of three pieces of heavy equipment, drinking coffee and watching one guy in a hole with a shovel remember this. They are working harder than than your average KBR employee contracted for Iraq.
Need a lesson on how to make money in a war zone?So the next time you see road workers of any kind standing around, give them a salute. In comparison to the taxpayer hired hands at KBR, they are busting their asses.
Try studying defense contractor KBR, a former unit of Dick Cheney's Halliburton. The engineering logistics company -- whose conflict zone days date to the Vietnam War -- won a contract worth $4.6 million to repair military vehicles at a base outside Baghdad. For the job, they employed 144 mechanics.
How many hours do you think they worked?
According to an analysis by Mother Jones, based on a report by a Pentagon Inspector General, the 144 KBR mechanics worked as little as 43 minutes per month, on average.
Even KBR's internal figures tell a shocking story of military contract waste. The company says that of the workers they had, just 6.6 percent were being used at any given time, on average. KBR said that "worker utilization" rates ranged from a meager 3.97 percent in April 2009 to 9.65 percent in September 2008.
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