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It has nothing to do with safety it's pure a who is where system.
Which on a train system is paramount for safety, otherwise you'd have trains crashing into each other because they're on the same track.
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When is being apologetic became politically correctness? Are we soon going to call every decent human like behavior in public space as being politically correct?
> When is being apologetic became politically correctness? When it became insincere or boarderline fradulent. "We deeply regret this one incident" - you regret getting caught and it has happened many times before and will happen many times again. "We are sorry, we have learnt the lessons and it will never happen again" - no you havent and yes it will. "Thank you so much this is delicious" - umm try tasting the food b…
Actions are more important than words, otherwise it's just political fluff.
Again they should have refunded people, not care about their language, they didn't so that's a big no-no.
Every company is saying 'sorry', every politician is saying 'sorry' but there are no actual follow ups and ways of fixing it.
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I had a professor in college teaching computer systems and design. Somehow he got to talking about the NSA. He said that back in the 60s, the NSA had computers that were running at 1000. “1000?” I asked, wondering if he’d forgotten the units. He replied “Yes, 1000.”
I've heard this joke before on HN.
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When is being apologetic became politically correctness? Are we soon going to call every decent human like behavior in public space as being politically correct?
> When is being apologetic became politically correctness? When it became insincere or boarderline fradulent. "We deeply regret this one incident" - you regret getting caught and it has happened many times before and will happen many times again. "We are sorry, we have learnt the lessons and it will never happen again" - no you havent and yes it will. "Thank you so much this is delicious" - umm try tasting the food b…
"The study was conducted on a group of 3,399 individuals, all from London and aged between 35 and 55. The personality traits that were observed included cynicism, suspicion, resentment and distrust. After the study period was completed, it was found that the majority of individuals who expressed these particular personality traits that were monitored at the start of the study had developed depression during the 19 year-period."
https://www.bphope.com/blog/how-cynicism-is-linked-to-depres...
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> everything else in their IT land outside this system runs off SAP (likely including the actual distribution of the output of crew scheduling) so if I had to gamble I'd say the failure happened somewhere in the integration between them. I have a reflex repulsion for off-the-shelf "enterprise" software. You pay millions of dollars to subscribe to a suite of (seemingly) bad, bloated software that takes more work to cu…
Have done consulting for 15 years, understand your feelings. But I'd like to offer some alternative viewpoints. Buying an off the shelve package also buys you an industry-standard business process. The idea is that part of value comes from the process that you have to shoe-horn into. Some integration is expected (and provided for) but if you have to modify heavily, You're Not Using It Correctly. Also, using an OTS pa…
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> everything else in their IT land outside this system runs off SAP (likely including the actual distribution of the output of crew scheduling) so if I had to gamble I'd say the failure happened somewhere in the integration between them. I have a reflex repulsion for off-the-shelf "enterprise" software. You pay millions of dollars to subscribe to a suite of (seemingly) bad, bloated software that takes more work to cu…
> My gut tells me that big names like SAP and Sales Force are easier to sell to executives. I've heard it said that SAP is sold on the golf course, not in the IT boardroom.
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From the notice: > It affected the system that generates up-to-date schedules for trains and staff. ...boy oh boy did trying to look into what NS uses for crew scheduling ever send me down a rabbit hole. I don't know if the systems have changed but while poking around online I found this[1] doc about the Netherlands' timetable revamp around 2006 and it talks about the complexity of TURNI-- their on-the-fly crew sched…
I have seen “SAP” tossed around in this industry and still have no clue what they do to earn money. Are they the equivalence of “salesforce”?
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> sidenote: If anyone out there is an SAP specialist ns.nl looks like a pretty great place to work: 36hr week, 5 weeks vacation, pension, and free unlimited 2nd class + low cost 1st class train travel. Those are pretty standard terms here in .NL. 36 hours is considered fulltime by most employers, including government and semi-government. Pension is offered almost everywhere and at least 4 weeks vacation is the legal…
Note that a pension is essentially a legal requirement. There might be ways around this, but it would be really hard to offer employment without offering a pension in NL.
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> everything else in their IT land outside this system runs off SAP (likely including the actual distribution of the output of crew scheduling) so if I had to gamble I'd say the failure happened somewhere in the integration between them. I have a reflex repulsion for off-the-shelf "enterprise" software. You pay millions of dollars to subscribe to a suite of (seemingly) bad, bloated software that takes more work to cu…
Have done consulting for 15 years, understand your feelings. But I'd like to offer some alternative viewpoints. Buying an off the shelve package also buys you an industry-standard business process. The idea is that part of value comes from the process that you have to shoe-horn into. Some integration is expected (and provided for) but if you have to modify heavily, You're Not Using It Correctly. Also, using an OTS pa…
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> 36hr week, 5 weeks vacation, pension 1 hour more than the standard French contract, and there are also far more holidays here.. > free unlimited 2nd class + low cost 1st class train travel. .. okay that's actually a great perk. IIRC the French national railway company, SNCF, provide only a limited number of tickets per employee (like 10 per year? someone please correct me if I'm wrong). Their UX is also atrocious t…
I work for the Belgian railways and I have a free unlimited first class pass for Benelux (Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg) + lots of international free tickets, also in 1st class. But no company car, obviously. There is no UX: it's just a small sheet of paper.