[Mariner]

Gee, I could have delivered this system 4 years ago at $10-$12 million.

I saw the RFP.

[TurboZamboni]

Sounds quite similar to MN’s “MNSURE” exchange disaster.

[molson209]

Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004)

[Nifster]

It no doubt went to a minority ‘owned’ business with incompetent workers....kind of like those who set up Ocare

[ClearCase_guy]

Government IT contracts tend to be badly written, awarded to contractors who can't do the work, then badly staffed and badly managed.

Lots of overhead, regulations and senseless rules, and not much common sense on "how to complete a task on deadline" -- which is not a one-time thing, but something that is done on a daily, weekly, monthly and annual basis. Over and over. Get a task. Complete a task. One foot in front of the other, until Initial Operating Capability is eventually reached.

But I'm sure all the government big shots had a real good time hanging out in conference rooms talking about their golf games.

[catnipman]

“Gee, I could have delivered this system 4 years ago at $10-$12 million. I saw the RFP.”

Yeah, but you didn’t “contribute” enough millions to Democrat campaign funds to be considered for the contract.

[Cyman]

AND when accessed it initiates a Norton 360 warning about an expired certificate and warns not to trust the site

[minnesota_bound]

At work we have a database where we add in the callers info and our notes. I have worked at 2 companies that used these types of databases.

I use Windows Notepad which is a simple text editor to put the initial info in. If the database does not crash during the call I will copy the info into it then save.

What causes the problems is someone will say lets create some reports and collate the data in myriad ways.
Doom to fail.

You can create a shortcut from Start> All programs> Accessories> Notepad

Or Start button> Computer> Windows> Notepad
Drag it to your start button then move it up the start menu to where you like it.

or just Start> Run then type Notepad.
Notepad works all the time.

[CharlesOConnell]

Mr. Kumar had better watch his back. Retaliation is not only a tradition in government, it is de facto de rigeur. During fifteen years in civil service, I only found out after being laid off from a government jurisdiction whose tax base collapsed, that it was an unreal world. “Civil Servants” aren’t servants at all, they are de facto superiors of the citizenry whose lives they regulate. Their government union representatives, feel free to hijack compulsory union dues, promote socially destructive, sexually-radical policies, in the meantime, corrupting the political process that is supposed to regulate government employment. The only solution is to politically disenfranchise public employees–deny them the vote. Let’s set up the brouhaha this invites, by contrasting some of the disadvantages with the advantages. A large proportion of the electorate is in government employment. Arbitrarily denying political representation to such a large group, would invite its own set of abuses. Why not emulate the French system, La Legion Etrangere, the French Foreign Legion, which gives elite privileges to foreigners–many with criminal backgrounds֫–but denies them any say in political decision making? Sound somewhat familiar? We’re already at that stage. Legions of non-citizens, many of them grievously criminal, already tip the balance in national, Presidential elections. Why not merely institutionalize the present status quo? Guarantee civil servants yearly “cost-of-living” pay increases well beyond the rates granted to private sector workers. Make it impossible for them to be fired; give them lifetime employment security. Enhance their already considerable reputation for high-handed treatment of the powerless citizenry–the very definition of officious. But to counterbalance those exorbitant benefits, deny them any say in political decision making, and take back your country.

[SWAMPSNIPER]