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Cover Oregon was a disaster. That work should have been done by an agency here in the state. I don't understand the logic of government sometimes.

by vhost- 12y ago

selimthegrim 12y ago
I once went out on a Tinder date with one of the IT managers for Cover Oregon (in December/January). She was a music major at Denison and apparently Oracle was vacuuming up everyone with a pulse and a BS in DC and the East Coast to manage their contractors. I guess she was doing pretty well too since she could afford to go to Sun Valley once a month from Portland. What I wonder is why couldn't Oracle find managers with more experience?
- esbranson 12y ago
  Incompetence?
  - dwd 12y ago
    I've met a lot of Tier 1 contracting consultants. Smart people, excellent communicators, well presented and great at generating ideas, but with zero problem solving experience they were no better than a fresh graduate. You need a few seasoned professionals who have seen it all to keep the children in order. Reminds me of my year 12 chemistry teacher who was out of the class for a minute and on returning had the class evacuated within seconds. He recognised the smell of mercury vapour from a burst thermometer the second he walked in.
esbranson 12y ago
Are you a Oregon elector? If so, what was your logic? Did you not read the procurement notice? Did you agree with it? If you didn't agree with it, did you lodge a complaint? Or were you too lazy? Were you too lazy to even read the proposal? To read and analyze the resulting award? To read others' analyses? And if you were too lazy, how can you now complain without being a hypocrite? If you're not an Oregon elector, have you done any of these things in your state? Because I don't think an executive would be able to complain about the functioning of a corporation if they don't bother to show up at board meetings or even read the meeting minutes.

Cover Oregon was a disaster. That work should have been done by an agency here in the state. I don't understand the logic of government sometimes.

by vhost- 12y ago

Cover Oregon was a disaster. That work should have been done by an agency here in the state. I don't understand the logic of government sometimes.

selimthegrim 12y ago

I once went out on a Tinder date with one of the IT managers for Cover Oregon (in December/January). She was a music major at Denison and apparently Oracle was vacuuming up everyone with a pulse and a BS in DC and the East Coast to manage their contractors. I guess she was doing pretty well too since she could afford to go to Sun Valley once a month from Portland. What I wonder is why couldn't Oracle find managers with more experience?

esbranson 12y ago
Incompetence?
- dwd 12y ago
  I've met a lot of Tier 1 contracting consultants. Smart people, excellent communicators, well presented and great at generating ideas, but with zero problem solving experience they were no better than a fresh graduate. You need a few seasoned professionals who have seen it all to keep the children in order. Reminds me of my year 12 chemistry teacher who was out of the class for a minute and on returning had the class evacuated within seconds. He recognised the smell of mercury vapour from a burst thermometer the second he walked in.

esbranson 12y ago

Are you a Oregon elector? If so, what was your logic? Did you not read the procurement notice? Did you agree with it? If you didn't agree with it, did you lodge a complaint? Or were you too lazy? Were you too lazy to even read the proposal? To read and analyze the resulting award? To read others' analyses? And if you were too lazy, how can you now complain without being a hypocrite? If you're not an Oregon elector, have you done any of these things in your state? Because I don't think an executive would be able to complain about the functioning of a corporation if they don't bother to show up at board meetings or even read the meeting minutes.