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Is it me or doesn't this make any sense? But what really sets Metro Bank apart is its state-of-the-art IT system. Then at the end: With such grand designs, i
by pragmatic 16y ago
Is it me or doesn't this make any sense?
But what really sets Metro Bank apart is its state-of-the-art IT system.
Then at the end:
With such grand designs, isn’t Vernon Hill, one of the bank’s founders, tempted to build an IT system of his own? “I hate programmers,” replies this dyed-in-the-wool entrepreneur. “They only cause trouble.”
Didn't they already build a state of the art IT system?
- jacquesm 16y agoMaybe they outsourced the building of it?
- shrikant 16y agoThey did. Pretty much all of it.
- gaius 16y agoTo whom? Accidenture?
- jacquesm 16y agoThat's got to be the funniest thing I read all day, thank you Gaius. We're often on opposite sites of various fences but with this one liner you've definitely made my day so thank you very much for that. :)
- smcl 16y agoPrivate Eye also refer to outsourcing firm Capita as "Crapita", which is less funny but still makes me chuckle each time I see it
- jerf 16y agoOn the basis that they've gotten far enough to open a branch, I'm going to guess "no".
- aswanson 16y agoHow in the world do companies like that stay in business being so incompetent? At some point, don't a series of epic disasters at least _begin_ to tarnish a reputation?
- DrJokepu 16y agoIf the integrity of these companies and their clients wasn't so unquestionable, I might even suspect that the answer was "by corruption and bribes".
- Tamerlin 16y agoYou could say the same about most government contractors. I suspect that there are a lot of kickbacks involved, because none of the projects I was ever involved in at government contracting firms ever went well -- ALL of them had a lot more people than necessary, and underutilized the best talent they had. The one thing that they had in common with the commercial companies I worked for is that instead of jettisoning the least competent so that the rest of us could do our jobs, they promoted those folks and put them in charge.
- gaius 16y agoGood, cheap, fast, pick any two. I can guess which two this guy chose every time.