The Case of the Outsourced IT Survey or, The Ugly American answers the phone 1087

Its happening here, Ireland, a very 'enteprising' man is building up a grbutt strip airport outside Dublin, without planning permission, to jet status. As Dublin Airport is a disaster for people trying to get through it, most people support 'yer man's' project

Its almost impossible to do this with legacy issues. In Dublin, with our small system, staff that used to work at one depot, and were transferred to another about 50 years ago, still report to work at the first, and then have to be transferred to the other. Weird. That is the sort of problem that an individual in charge would have solved yonks ago.

I have travelled EuroStar and local lines in Europe. They are wonderful. It all depends on what a Society wants to do with its resources.

Thats at the root of the problems in Dublin, too.

When I was in Washington last, I loved the extended U-Bahn (or whatever they call the underground), but coming out through the Airport later, All I could do is wonder where all the security people would be working if it wasn't for Osama.. The overweight, slow, panhandling sort that are the staple of all government offices everywhere. ( Oh, yes, I spent 2 hours recently trying to find out who was in charge of one government project, they were to return my call)

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