* Posts by drwho

1 publicly visible post • joined 18 Jul 2012

Olympic Security cock-up was down to that DARN software

drwho

that is the *real* issue: not really employing people

i think that's the real issue here. forget about the software. it's the business model that's flawed here: minimising costs to the extreme, maximising "shareholder value" (and, thus, manager's bonuses) — they could have avoided this situation by taking folks on their books for the term of the games (and a bit before), as you rightly pointed out.

some business requirements are not compatible with ad-hoc hiring and firing.