What cheeses me off

[RealtimeY]

I just want to buy a stamp or post a parcel.

They used to have self-serve machines for these things, but I guess they've found a better use for them.

 

[andye]

They used to have self-serve machines for these things, but I guess they've found a better use for them.View attachment 333093

Closed since covid. Shame as they were very useful for paying bills without questions being asked about the card used

 

[serfty]

Closed since covid. Shame as they were very useful for paying bills without questions being asked about the card used

No, they generally reopened.

However, this year for all but a select few locations their use has been suspended until after a new POS system is introduced over the next 18 months.

 

[Lynda2475]

My local post office doesn't have any of those

 

[SYD]

My local post office doesn't have any of those

You should have prefixed that with “WCMO, is….”

 

[Lynda2475]

You should have prefixed that with “WCMO, is….”

Possibly but i suspect the people clogging up the queue today wouldn't use them even if they were there.

 

[dajop]

I am getting really cheesed off at the moment at the YouTube algorithm. It’s pushing endless amount of anti-(topic not included as politics not allowed) short videos to me, when I just want to be entertained. Not have certain far-xx_-wing views thrust at me continually. I just find it annoying but the worrisome thing is people just eat this all up and let it inform their worldview.

 

[drron]

WCMO is having to wait in line at post office behind a bunch of people doing transactions that don't need to be done at the post office like paying bills with a credit card (you can do that online or over the phone), when i there because my transaction can only be done at the post office.

Even more WCMO is when that line is made even longer by people still socially distancing even though the line is now out the door and down the street.

 

[Quickstatus]

I just want to buy a stamp or post a parcel.

A-Post is among the last customer-facing businesses to not have self service.
The other ones are the hospitals.

 

[Flashback]

No, they generally reopened.

However, this year for all but a select few locations their use has been suspended until after a new POS system is introduced over the next 18 months.

Enhancing the software to sort out some usage of card issues no doubt

 

[Flashback]

WCMO is how these large consultancy firms continue to deliver projects in this way and continue to get away with it.

Gov tried to build a reusable IT workflow tool, with no commitments to reuse it

Axed permissions capability platform dissected.

www.itnews.com.au

No doubt a combination of:

• Them taking the mick
• The client not managing the contract properly and holding them to account

 

[Gladstone Tim]

WCMO is having to wait in line at post office behind a bunch of people doing transactions that don't need to be done at the post office like paying bills with a credit card (you can do that online or over the phone), when i there because my transaction can only be done at the post office.

Some retailers/service providers don’t accept certain cards directly but will at OzPost.

 

[TheRealTMA]

WCMO is how these large consultancy firms continue to deliver projects in this way and continue to get away with it.

Gov tried to build a reusable IT workflow tool, with no commitments to reuse it

Axed permissions capability platform dissected.

www.itnews.com.au

No doubt a combination of:

• Them taking the mick
• The client not managing the contract properly and holding them to account

Retired politicians on the board or as consultants.

 

[Lynda2475]

WCMO you check the BOM for the forecast so can pack accordingly but when you arrive it is 5 degrees warmer and you are wishing youd gone with your gut and not the BOM and packed some shorts.

 

[Ade]

In Thailand I add salt to my beer and ice after a game of golf.

Wow ... is it like a local Thai thingy? Or is it something that you choose to do. In any case, how does it taste, generally? - I'm intrigued.. I might try salt in my beer too ...

 

[Pushka]

WCMO you check the BOM for the forecast so can pack accordingly but when you arrive it is 5 degrees warmer and you are wishing youd gone with your gut and not the BOM and packed some shorts.

And the way that severe thunderstorms are predicted half way into the event and not before it when there would be something you could do to protect property etc.

 

[Ade]

WCMO is how these large consultancy firms continue to deliver projects in this way and continue to get away with it.

Gov tried to build a reusable IT workflow tool, with no commitments to reuse it

Axed permissions capability platform dissected.

www.itnews.com.au

No doubt a combination of:

• Them taking the mick
• The client not managing the contract properly and holding them to account

Is it just me or the article doesn't tell what tool they are talking about? Given it's Accenture, I could hazard a guess as to what the tool could be, but I could be incorrect as well ...

 

[Forg]

Retired politicians on the board or as consultants.

Not necessarily; it’s mostly a combo of the gumbyment’s freeze on hiring (which for decades means downsizing) leading to a need to hire consultants to do half the work, and the fact that most consultants just aren’t very good at doing work.

It’s another one of those situations where it’s incompetence rather than malice.

Yes there are cases of bad actors (eg. PwC won’t have an official policy of “scam them” but it won’t hurt any employee if they get involved in scamming GovCo), but it’s mostly about incompetence & corporate entities feeling no need to repair other entities’ incompetence. Capitalism, baby, yeah!

 

[TheRealTMA]

Not necessarily; it’s mostly a combo of the gumbyment’s freeze on hiring (which for decades means downsizing) leading to a need to hire consultants to do half the work, and the fact that most consultants just aren’t very good at doing work.

It’s another one of those situations where it’s incompetence rather than malice.

Yes there are cases of bad actors (eg. PwC won’t have an official policy of “scam them” but it won’t hurt any employee if they get involved in scamming GovCo), but it’s mostly about incompetence & corporate entities feeling no need to repair other entities’ incompetence. Capitalism, baby, yeah!

Don’t accept that. PwC etc knew what they were doing. Incompetence is a poor excuse for failure to develop policy by the governments. $21 billion in a year on consultants to obfuscate hiring of public servants is pretty appalling.

 

[Forg]

Don’t accept that. PwC etc knew what they were doing. Incompetence is a poor excuse for failure to develop policy by the governments. $21 billion in a year on consultants to obfuscate hiring of public servants is pretty appalling.

It's not an excuse, there is no excuse ... it's an explanation.
I think a big part of the problem we have with our governments is that all the checks & balances in place are to avoid malice. They don't address incompetence, and incompetence is the cause of most of the problems.

Utopia on ABC is horribly accurate. My better-half works in federal government, they actually paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to a consulting firm for re-branding about 2 years ago & the thing they came up with was near identical to the Dark Side Of The Moon logo in the very first episode of Utopia. And of the section managers involved only the better-half noticed ... and they all got the coughs with her when she pointed out (and they all realised) how much of a laughing-stock they would have been if they'd re-branded with the same logo that was a joke in Utopia ...