Comment Re:This is why... (Score 2, Interesting) 1082
It's true, a requirement for obtaining a high-level position in IT for a state govt. seems to be incompetence.
This was fun to watch unfold, first-hand. All of the systems designed and implemented by Accenture for the Colorado State Government were faulty. Every single one. Yet they kept getting contracts. No one even bothered to Google the company, they just bid low, said they could do it, and no one checked up on 'em until the systems started breaking. And I don't mean breaking like a small problem here, small problem there...the Dept. of Revenue computers (Dept. of A, T & F computers, DMV computers, tax computers, unemployment benefit computers, dept. of labor computers) would shut down and wouldn't fully come back on and be ready to use for a day or two at a time once or twice a month. Servers and workstations, just shutting down all over the place, for no discernible (at least by someone like me) reason. The computers in my office would shut down and I'd check cables 'n stuff and then call the IT dept. (the phone system is and always has been ok, at least) and you could feel the rage and shame oozing through the phone when the guy would say he didn't know what was wrong...the computer systems from Accenture came without usable documentation and without support agreements. Then I'd just tell everyone that we were getting another paid two-day break (union). Good times.
This was fun to watch unfold, first-hand. All of the systems designed and implemented by Accenture for the Colorado State Government were faulty. Every single one. Yet they kept getting contracts. No one even bothered to Google the company, they just bid low, said they could do it, and no one checked up on 'em until the systems started breaking. And I don't mean breaking like a small problem here, small problem there...the Dept. of Revenue computers (Dept. of A, T & F computers, DMV computers, tax computers, unemployment benefit computers, dept. of labor computers) would shut down and wouldn't fully come back on and be ready to use for a day or two at a time once or twice a month. Servers and workstations, just shutting down all over the place, for no discernible (at least by someone like me) reason. The computers in my office would shut down and I'd check cables 'n stuff and then call the IT dept. (the phone system is and always has been ok, at least) and you could feel the rage and shame oozing through the phone when the guy would say he didn't know what was wrong...the computer systems from Accenture came without usable documentation and without support agreements. Then I'd just tell everyone that we were getting another paid two-day break (union). Good times.
