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<blockquote data-quote="anothertsg" data-source="post: 77272" data-attributes="member: 4712"><p>I directed a family member to this thread to see what UPS is up to. He is also in the IT industry. This was his response:</p><p></p><p>"This skeleton-crew notion seems to be a disease attacking suits everywhere these days. Here's how these tech-support stories invariably go. Short term, they save oodles of money while all the systems seem to run themselves. Then the cracks appear and they try to compensate by working tech support on triple time. Long term, the whole thing breaks down, usually resulting in a massive PR black eye ("UPS loses 50 million</p><p>packages") and equally massive costs to restore things back to normal.</p><p></p><p>Computer systems are conceptually no different than any other large, complex machinery. No one would dare suggest not attending regularly to the delivery trucks' brakes -- they're all working today, aren't they?</p><p>-- but they think computers are somehow magically exempt."</p><p></p><p>Sounds soooo right, doesn't it? <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group2/yes.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":yes:" title="Yes :yes:" data-shortname=":yes:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="anothertsg, post: 77272, member: 4712"] I directed a family member to this thread to see what UPS is up to. He is also in the IT industry. This was his response: "This skeleton-crew notion seems to be a disease attacking suits everywhere these days. Here's how these tech-support stories invariably go. Short term, they save oodles of money while all the systems seem to run themselves. Then the cracks appear and they try to compensate by working tech support on triple time. Long term, the whole thing breaks down, usually resulting in a massive PR black eye ("UPS loses 50 million packages") and equally massive costs to restore things back to normal. Computer systems are conceptually no different than any other large, complex machinery. No one would dare suggest not attending regularly to the delivery trucks' brakes -- they're all working today, aren't they? -- but they think computers are somehow magically exempt." Sounds soooo right, doesn't it? :yes: [/QUOTE]
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