[ale] OT: Cobb County business license office

[Scott Castaline]

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On 05/21/2012 01:37 PM, Geoffrey Myers wrote:
> 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.
> 
Looks like they're going from bad to worse,,,,,,,,


>> 
>> 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." - Thomas Jefferson 
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