{"id":558,"date":"2005-11-30T22:31:20","date_gmt":"2005-11-30T22:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/sirens-liars-and-the-common-sense-private-sector\/"},"modified":"2005-11-30T22:31:20","modified_gmt":"2005-11-30T22:31:20","slug":"sirens-liars-and-the-common-sense-private-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/sirens-liars-and-the-common-sense-private-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Sirens, Liars and the Common Sense Private Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A side effect of living in New Cross is that you become immune to sirens. In fact, no music I ever play ever sounds right without them. In fact, in fact, I wonder if that&#8217;s how dub started.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Michele is a liar. She denies being a Daily Mail reader, despite the concrete evidence:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There&#8217;s frequently a copy of it in her bag after work.<\/li>\n<li>Tonight, <i>for the second time,<\/i> we had a Mail photographer round to photograph her for the letters page.<\/li>\n<li>She reads the Daily Mail<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Why ? I&#8217;m buggered if I know. we don&#8217;t even own a house. In fact it&#8217;s a tad depressing. Maybe she&#8217;ll turn out to be in the Neo-con Republican KKK chapter too.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>This evening I learned a great deal about the private sector and its natural in-built efficiency. As a practical example of why we should privatise everything read on:<\/p>\n<h2>The problem:<\/h2>\n<p>An application server we rely on for our every day work is broken.<\/p>\n<h2>The Public Sector Solution<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>I notice the problem.<\/li>\n<li>I log into the affected server and try to work out what the problem is.<\/li>\n<li>I sort the problem<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How old fashioned is that ? Please don&#8217;t laugh! It&#8217;s what I used to think was correct! <\/p>\n<h2>The Solution<\/h2>\n<p>Here is the model answer, as provided by the private sector:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I notice the problem.<\/li>\n<li>I send an IM to my boss.<\/li>\n<li>My boss organises a group IM chat to discuss the issue.<\/li>\n<li>The result of the chat is that the &#8220;SA team&#8221; need to be contacted as none of us are allowed to login to the server (for corporate reasons).<\/li>\n<li>The boss asks someone to page the team and to setup a conference call.<\/li>\n<li>A conference call is established with 7 people, all in different countries, and we spend a while waiting for the SA team to respond to the page.<\/li>\n<li>Eventually the guy arrives and we try to diagnose the problem by telling the guy (who, despite being very well meaning and competent, doesn&#8217;t speak very good english or have a very good understanding of the systems involved at all.)<\/li>\n<li>We realise that the only way we&#8217;re going to solve it is by getting a login into the affected server.<\/li>\n<li>We try to describe the measures necessary to the SA guy to perform this and fail&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;loads more tedious crap until we all realise that unless we leave the call we will die there.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See how simple it looks now. How foolish I feel for thinking that the old way was better. Just because it would have achieved the goal for far less effort\/time\/money. But there would be no audit trial!<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t laugh at me because I&#8217;m a fool&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A side effect of living in New Cross is that you become immune to sirens. In fact, no music I ever play ever sounds right without them. In fact, in fact, I wonder if that&#8217;s how dub started. Michele is a liar. She denies being a Daily Mail reader, despite the concrete evidence: There&#8217;s frequently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}