Re: [Sheflug] public sector employment

["Ian W. Wright" <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you are looking at local government its no longer public sector. All the
IT at Sheffield City Council is contracted out to ?EDS?
When I worked for the council, the council's own IT staff were pretty
useless and tied down with paperwork so that it could take around 4 weeks to
get a hard drive changed and another two weeks to get it to work right!
Consequently, me and the Admin chief decided to ignore them and, for the
last two years or so that we were there, we did all our departments IT stuff
ourselves - it was far quicker, cheaper and less frustrating.
The IT 'service' was contracted out just before I left and most of the
council's IT staff were sold off the the private company. My ex colleagues
now tell me that things are somewhat worse than they used to be 'in the old
days' before we decided to ignore council policies. Of course, because the
'service' is now privatised, the cost is greater and so less can be done
with the available budgets - resulting in more meetings and paperwork to put
forward the case for every bit of work required followed by yet more
meetings and paperwork to argue about the cost. I'm glad I'm out of it!!

Best wishes,
Ian
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Ian W. Wright
Sheffield, UK
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Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 2:44 PM
Subject: RE: [Sheflug] public sector employment


> that sounds like what i expected, you get politics anywhere. the flying by
> the seat of your pants sounds like something interesting... as for dead nt
> servers, put in a samba box with smb_pam and will they notice the
> difference?
>
> i have worked in the private sector for a bit now, and with all the
mergers
> and profits and outsourcing. i thought that public sector might be a bit
> more stable.... i imagine that there are some interesting legacy boxes
> attached to the council networks!
>
> > > interesting?
> > if you like politics, flying by the seat of your pants, and
> > resurrecting
> > dead NT servers to a deadline, then yes
>
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