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[TheBoy]

Union rep (I know) just been on the news and stated categorically that, if the IT hadn't been outsourced, this problem would have been fixed 'within minutes '.

Which is what the whole world already knew, but our media is being sensitive about it.

Its been on the cards since they made all their own IT staff redundant 18 months ago, as I said previously.  And until it comes back in house, it WILL happen again. Outsourcing IT never works. It never has. It never will.

[VXL V6]

Union rep (I know) just been on the news and stated categorically that, if the IT hadn't been outsourced, this problem would have been fixed 'within minutes '.

Which is what the whole world already knew, but our media is being sensitive about it.

Its been on the cards since they made all their own IT staff redundant 18 months ago, as I said previously.  And until it comes back in house, it WILL happen again. Outsourcing IT never works. It never has. It never will.

Yep, seen it plenty of times now, been on the poor end of it as well, usually see adverts about 12 - 18 months later for 'building a new team of focused professionals blah blah blah'

[aaronjb]

Two enlightening things..

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/6e1gb5/british_airways_boss_tries_to_gag_staff_on_it/di7awy8/

And this .. yes, this is a realistic representation of how emails come in from +91, as it's known around here:
https://ibb.co/dPGw3F

[TheBoy]

Two enlightening things..

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/6e1gb5/british_airways_boss_tries_to_gag_staff_on_it/di7awy8/

And this .. yes, this is a realistic representation of how emails come in from +91, as it's known around here:
https://ibb.co/dPGw3F

LOL. As you'd expect, we have a lot of dealings with offshore (or bestshore, as a previous employer used to refer to India), both our own people and various other outsourcers.

We always reply to each other (in the UK), "please do the needful and revert in any case"

[Rods2]

Sounds like the Indian server maintenance team are fully trained and ready for their next job. To test turning off the cooling water in an Indian nuclear reactor and then in their own time dropping the carbon control rods to stop in overheating and meltdown. That worked perfectly at Chernobyl, in 1986, when it was tried.

[aaronjb]

Two enlightening things..

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/6e1gb5/british_airways_boss_tries_to_gag_staff_on_it/di7awy8/

And this .. yes, this is a realistic representation of how emails come in from +91, as it's known around here:
https://ibb.co/dPGw3F

LOL. As you'd expect, we have a lot of dealings with offshore (or bestshore, as a previous employer used to refer to India), both our own people and various other outsourcers.

We always reply to each other (in the UK), "please do the needful and revert in any case"

My other half had an email from a conveyancing solicitor a while back that ended with "We will revert to you at our earliest" .. I shuddered!

[Kevin Wood]

What is this language? They are using English words but it makes sod all sense.

[Kevin Wood]

Maybe it's just me? 

dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/revert

[Viral_Jim]

Maybe it's just me? 

dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/revert

Nope, it has firmly entered the lexicon of the accountancy firms and consultants (never ones to miss out on a new type of bullsh!t to purvey). Rubs me up the wrong way just as much as the management speak they all indulge in.

Interesting blog post about its use and spread here (albeit from an American source):
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/06/magazine/06FOB-onlanguage-t.html

[Kevin Wood]

I must try to keep up. I'm still sneering at retards who start sentences with "So".

[Nick W]

Thank you for introducing me to that ghastly use of 'revert', as I hadn't come across it before


In the same vein, what halfwit made 'gifted' instead of 'given' so popular?

[Sir Tigger KC]

I must try to keep up. I'm still sneering at retards who start sentences with "So".

So what's wrong with that?   

It really gets my goat when people start sentences with "Yes, no......" or "Yeah, no...."    Ficking retards!   

[Kevin Wood]

I must try to keep up. I'm still sneering at retards who start sentences with "So".

So what's wrong with that?   

It really gets my goat when people start sentences with "Yes, no......" or "Yeah, no...."    Ficking retards!   

Yep, them too. All of 'em, up against the wall when TheBoy gets his act together.

[Rods2]

So we'll know when TB has outsourced OOF maintenance to India as the thread 'Reply' button will change to 'Revert'

[Doctor Gollum]

I must try to keep up. I'm still sneering at retards who start sentences with "So".

So what's wrong with that?   

It really gets my goat when people start sentences with "Yes, no......" or "Yeah, no...."    Ficking retards!   

Yep, them too. All of 'em, up against the wall when TheBoy gets CBA.

Fixed