but, if you don't get a clearance, they don't go, "WELP, enjoy the job"

Oh, I didn't know you meant you had a security clearance from being in the military.

Really we need to loosen up regulations on security clearances so the free market can do it's job..

It creates a monopoly because it's a burdensome cost of entry

@wolfman1911
That was one of them.

The two people I know that have or are getting security clearance work for defense contractors, so apparently the story goes that the clearance comes something like a year or so after getting hired.

@wolfman1911
Lol.

No.

Lol.

Fucking no.

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To quote a downie...
> but, if you don't get a clearance, they don't go, "WELP, enjoy the job"

Well no shit

You think they get paid to not work for a year...?

I never said that you don't lose the job if you fail to get the clearance.

You're not getting the job with the clearance

you're working in some other position

Do you think defense contractors don't have things they can have employees do that waiting for a clearance?

Depends

they'll pay you to sit in a box to do nothing so they can write it down as part of their budget

so I'd suppose so

and depends on if their job is actually security related, or if they just need to security clearance to work on some project

Sec contractors are the biggest pieces of shit, but in general, anything that gets sucking on the gubmint teat is a huge pile of wasteful shit

They are both computer science majors working for defense contractors, so I suspect there is a fair mix of things they could be doing in the mean time.

depends

Well, not really computer science major anymore since they graduated, but I just got used to using that phrase.

That's already leaning towards waste

Those are the types of companies that will hire you to sit in a box and do nothing while you get your clearance

Especially since there are rules, depending on what they're doing for the number of people with security clearances they must have in order to stay in good standing

CS doesn't mean sec, but it probably does.

@wolfman1911
(X)

They hire real engineers for the other contractors

not "Computer Scientists"

and the people doing cryptography tend to be real mathematicians

Nigger... do you understand how interconnected Govie networks are?

not, _"Computer Scientists"_

If you're logging into a box with classified data, you need the appropriate clearance

>and the people doing cryptography tend to be real mathematicians
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You know what I mean you sperg

They're not working at Boeing in all likelihood

Some parasite security contractor probably