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Well thanks for calling me out as to not knowing who the hell is responsible. I agree with your approach... we need experts, who will NOT bid to one company, w
by ndiscussion 6y ago
Well thanks for calling me out as to not knowing who the hell is responsible.
I agree with your approach... we need experts, who will NOT bid to one company, who will NOT accept one-sided terms.
These are fat government contracts we're talking about... the company should have to take 100% responsibility to deliver a working website at cost.
If companies mismanage and fail, they should go out of business, and another company can try... instead of us paying for it, incentivizing bad behavior.
- josephg 6y ago> Well thanks for calling me out as to not knowing who the hell is responsible. To be fair, you were also partially right. Government departments usually have elected representatives who are officially in charge, so there's someone the public can blame when things like this happen. At least thats true here in Australia and in the UK - I'm not totally sure if it works the same way in the US. That said, the politicians usually don't get too involved in on-the-ground details like this. They have other things to worry about (like the next election). And the civil servants will usually understand the issues on the ground much better, because they spend their whole career dealing with them. (Unlike politicians who come and go.) Blaming the politicians involved is like blaming the CEO when bugs happen in software. (Or in this case, when bugs from many years ago are discovered.) Technically yeah, they're ultimately responsible. But the actual mistake was the fault of the people on the ground.
- ndiscussion 6y agoThe CEO analogy is a great one, I'll be stealing that, so thank you. HN seems to have greatly differing opinions on where the responsibility lies when it comes to private businesses, ie: Volkswagen scandal, Uber scandal, et al