[ale] OT: Cobb County business license office

[James Taylor]

I'm very annoyed about the tremendous waste of my tax money migrating their mail system to a much more expensive, less functional and less reliable mail system than the one they have.
-jt
 
 

James Taylor
678-697-9420
james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com



>>> Geoffrey Myers <lists at serioustechnology.com> 5/21/2012   01:37 PM >>> 
On 05/21/2012 01:16 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> HA! I ESPECIALLY like the "expect the best".
>
> I recall the line from Apollo 13, "We're riding a bomb built by the
> lowest bidder".
>
> Most gov orgs rely on outside contracting for IT build and often ongoing
> support. There's a sweet spot between "stupid money" and "low cost crap"
> that is rarely found, it seems.

Turns out they have passed some new law which requires additional 
paperwork, thus the backup.

Speaking of gov. orgs., they are migrating Cobb County Schools from 
groupwise to exchange/outlook.  They gave all the teachers a document to 
assist them with the process.  29 pages.  My wife got to page 3 where it 
stated, it should finish within 1 hour.  She left her laptop on over 
night, still wasn't finished.  Contacted IT support and they tried to go 
through the same process remotely, same results.  Now their sending 
someone out to the school.

>
> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Geoffrey Myers
> <lists at serioustechnology.com <mailto:lists at serioustechnology.com>> wrote:
>
>     Just received the following after sending an email to the Cobb County
>     business license office:
>
>      > Thank you for sending your affidavit and secure and verifiable
>     document
>      > via email. Due to tremendous volume, we are currently processing
>     emails
>      > received on May 3, 2012. We appreciate your patience.
>      >
>      > */Cobb County...Expect The Best/*
>      > //
>      > *www.cobbcounty.org <http://www.cobbcounty.org>*
>     <http://www.cobbcounty.org/>
>      >
>
>     Nice huh?
>
>
>     --
>     Until later, Geoffrey
>
>     "I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent
>     the government from wasting the labors of the people under
>     the pretense of taking care of them."
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> consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as
> they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
> - ////2011 Noam Chomsky
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Until later, Geoffrey

"I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent
the government from wasting the labors of the people under
the pretense of taking care of them."
- Thomas Jefferson
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