a confederacy of dunces (part 6,735)
Computing: Foreign Office Prism system problems revealed
Problems implementing the Foreign Office’s Prism computer system included incorrect programming that prevented 20 overseas posts, including British Embassies in Moscow and New Delhi, from using it.
On this occasion, it only cost us £53m to buy the lemon. Still, the culprits, Capgemini, should be added to the ever-expanding list of “service” “providers” it is fervently hoped are given some responsibility in bringing us the National Identity Register.
Posted on April 4th, 2006 at 10:25 am
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My brother once got a job in IT at CapGemini. He left after about a month, bored witless having never got off “the bench”; that is, from the word go he sat around earning a software engineer’s salary for doing precisely nothing because they didn’t have any work for him to do.
With that instinctive knack for efficiency they certainly get my nod for the ID scheme.
That sounds like a great job. If someone from CapGemini surfs past this blog, contact me and I will happily take home a software engineer’s wage to sit on the bench.
I don’t have any programming knowledge or experience, but then I won’t cost you any overheads as I will never visit the office either.
The ever so wonderful ID cards website (http://www.identitycards.gov.uk/working.asp) has a list of suppliers who might be up for it. CapGemini are on it, just above Capita. Along with 235 others.
What an outrage!
I know a load of people who work at Cap and EDS in Telford who spend most of their day sitting round doing fuck all. Cap have just taken on another 500 people too.
nice work if you can get it.
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