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Re: [privacy] 26 IRS Tapes Missing in Kansas City
From: "Brian Loe" <knobdy () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:46:54 -0600
On 1/23/07, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
I think you need to get out more - I've never worked for a company, even a firehouse, who's employees expect crappy service. Perhaps its because most of them depended on their machines to conduct business, but regardless, what kind of worthless IT group does one need to have for 90% uptime to be viewed as good by the users? I've never seen it.I didn't say 90% uptime. I said "mostly kinda sorta works 90%" - that includes the 10% of the time the box is *up*, but you're fighting with it because of some misfeature or broken config that means that when you receive file A, you have to jump through hoops B, C, and D before it will actually open in program E.
You said it sorta kinda works 90% - which means it kinda sorta works 90% of the time, and 10% of the time it has to be assumed to not work. Now you've described it further and it STILL sounds like downtime, caused by bad processes and/or a lack of knowledge. The company I currently work for handles very large data files in several formats. All of them have to be formatted in a particular way for a couple of different processes. That's not a problem with the process, it is the process. Its automated so no one spends time forcing square blocks through a round hole. _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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- Re: [privacy] 26 IRS Tapes Missing in Kansas City, (continued)
- Re: [privacy] 26 IRS Tapes Missing in Kansas City RMueller (Jan 20)
- Re: [privacy] 26 IRS Tapes Missing in Kansas City Shyaam (Jan 20)
- Re: [privacy] 26 IRS Tapes Missing in Kansas City Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 22)
- Re: [privacy] 26 IRS Tapes Missing in Kansas City Shyaam (Jan 22)
- Re: [privacy] 26 IRS Tapes Missing in Kansas City Brian Loe (Jan 22)
- Re: [privacy] 26 IRS Tapes Missing in Kansas City Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 22)
- Re: [privacy] 26 IRS Tapes Missing in Kansas City Brian Loe (Jan 22)
- Re: [privacy] 26 IRS Tapes Missing in Kansas City Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 22)
- Re: [privacy] 26 IRS Tapes Missing in Kansas City Brian Loe (Jan 23)
- Re: [privacy] 26 IRS Tapes Missing in Kansas City Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 23)
- Re: [privacy] 26 IRS Tapes Missing in Kansas City Brian Loe (Jan 23)
- Re: [privacy] 26 IRS Tapes Missing in Kansas City Shyaam (Jan 20)
- Re: [privacy] 26 IRS Tapes Missing in Kansas City RMueller (Jan 20)