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Post by sagebrush on Mar 18, 2020 12:35:03 GMT -8
You close all restaurants, bars, any place people congregate. OK. Fine. Reasonable. Thousands of people out of work for a few weeks. When they show up to file for unemployment, the statewide computer crashes. Someone dropped the ball to prepare for this. Kind of like they score a TD and are going to kick off, down by six, 45 seconds to go, no time outs, and you don't think an onside kick is coming. Have half a f'ing clue.
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Post by mbabeav on Mar 18, 2020 13:24:52 GMT -8
Each system has a choke point - I realize that to be able to anticipate is one thing, but in relative terms, only a month ago we were maxed out employment-wise and employers couldn't beg for enough people to find them, especially in bars and restaurants and stores. It takes months to ramp up most companies, let alone government agencies, to handle even single digit growth, and we've got perhaps a doubling in unemployment happening within two weeks. In government terms, that is like throwing a pail of oil in the path of F-1 cars just as they are starting to downshift heading out of the home stretch.
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Post by mbabeav on Mar 18, 2020 13:48:49 GMT -8
not sure anybody can plan for this kind of thing. Damned if you do, damned if you don't..>Sort of like snowplows in Portland. I snows..WHY DON"T YOU PLOW MY STREET. It doesn't snow. WHY ARE YOU WASTING MONE ON SNOWPLOWS For those of us working remote and using Cisco WebEx, Cisco is having trouble keeping it all working....Several meetings today where audio would not connect... THe internet is getting it's toughest test in history - people suddenly working from home, going to school online, everyone binge watching Netfliks while eating the 5 gallon bucket of Rocky Road ice cream they picked up at Winco. |
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Post by Judge Smails on Mar 18, 2020 14:15:59 GMT -8
not sure anybody can plan for this kind of thing. Damned if you do, damned if you don't..>Sort of like snowplows in Portland. I snows..WHY DON"T YOU PLOW MY STREET. It doesn't snow. WHY ARE YOU WASTING MONE ON SNOWPLOWS For those of us working remote and using Cisco WebEx, Cisco is having trouble keeping it all working....Several meetings today where audio would not connect... THe internet is getting it's toughest test in history - people suddenly working from home, going to school online, everyone binge watching Netfliks while eating the 5 gallon bucket of Rocky Road ice cream they picked up at Winco. Now I know why there is a run on toilet paper. |
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Post by TheGlove on Mar 18, 2020 15:59:05 GMT -8
You close all restaurants, bars, any place people congregate. OK. Fine. Reasonable. Thousands of people out of work for a few weeks. When they show up to file for unemployment, the statewide computer crashes. Someone dropped the ball to prepare for this. Kind of like they score a TD and are going to kick off, down by six, 45 seconds to go, no time outs, and you don't think an onside kick is coming. Have half a f'ing clue.  |
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Post by irimi on Mar 18, 2020 16:17:27 GMT -8
not sure anybody can plan for this kind of thing. Damned if you do, damned if you don't..>Sort of like snowplows in Portland. I snows..WHY DON"T YOU PLOW MY STREET. It doesn't snow. WHY ARE YOU WASTING MONE ON SNOWPLOWS For those of us working remote and using Cisco WebEx, Cisco is having trouble keeping it all working....Several meetings today where audio would not connect... Sorry, but they had a lot more time to prepare than China, Japan, Korea, Iran and Italy.
We have had a good couple of months to prepare, and it looks like we've just been in denial. With travel the way that it is, was there really any doubt that it would reach our shores and then spread like wildfire? No excuses.
Yeah, sites that teachers normally rely upon to assist with delivering content are being overtaxed and going down. It's going to be a weird spring term.
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Post by irimi on Mar 19, 2020 8:43:37 GMT -8
Sorry, but they had a lot more time to prepare than China, Japan, Korea, Iran and Italy.
We have had a good couple of months to prepare, and it looks like we've just been in denial. With travel the way that it is, was there really any doubt that it would reach our shores and then spread like wildfire? No excuses.
Yeah, sites that teachers normally rely upon to assist with delivering content are being overtaxed and going down. It's going to be a weird spring term.
just spitballing here...you don't work in IT do you? Couple of months? Nothing happens in a 'couple of months' from an IT infrastructure standpoint regardless of government or private sector. No, I don't. Yeah, I get what you mean. I remember lots of IT guys milking the hell out of Y2k.
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