Re: [OT] Herding cats

hotchapoonadapoonakinaha wrote:
"Sergeant Tibbs" <gsapraemty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:EhUZf.13775$tN3.12689@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

manawydan wrote:

"Sabidius Fell" <sabidius@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Be afraid. Be very afraid. The company in question are EDS, and they're
almost certainly going to be the folk who get to implement the database
behind the new ID card....


No need for fear at all, then.

EDS are notorious for designing computer systems that don't work, as anyone
in the Revenue, the DWP, and many other government departments will tell
you.

10 years after ID cards are supposed to be introduced, look forward to the
government minister explaining shamefacedly that in spite of spending £9000
million on developing the system, there are still teething troubles that
mean that no ID cards have actually been issued...

gwyn eich byd

Ffred


O Benryn wleth hyd Luch Reon
Cymru yn unfryd gerhyd Wrion
Gwret dy Cymry yghymeiri



It's a sad state of affairs that companies can make more money by leeching off the government with bad projects than it can by actually delivering on their promises.


EDS actually told the CSA that there was nothing wrong with the computer system they designed, but that the staff were using it wrong - just over 12 months ago, they set up a model office to prove the DWP wrong, then 12 months later closed it because they couldn't make it work!

Major problem was they paid their staff much more than the DWP staff, and now want to integrate them into to the CSA, can't reduce their wages, so the government will be paying them their higher wage while they work side by side with civil servants on a crap wage - bloody government!!!!

Kath aRe

Not bitter and twisted!

Civil Servants deserve a crap wage.
Good pay, excellent pensions and total job security all together supported by the taxpayer is an abuse.

FFF
Dirk

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