Off Topic NETFLIX and Box Set series Thread.

Maybe so, but they should still be liable for providing a system that didn’t work.
They should pay back the money they received for providing a defective product at the very least.

 

Just use nine words to them, 'cough up or we won't be using you again'. Apparently Fujitsu have had over six billion quid from taxpayers, on other projects, since this scandal started, they might be minded to cough.

 

Unless important people have shares in the company

 

It's common practice for large organisations to outsource IT support and then be held to ridiculously long contracts. We did this at BAE to a company called CSC, however in the early days Brough used its own bespoke systems separate to other sites until, inevitably, we had to migrate onto company wide mainframe systems. It was my experience that the local BAE software engineers were always far cleverer than the remote help desk CSC engineers and our inhouse guys could develop local software and work arounds to suite our own factory and project needs, we were a large 4K site though not a village post office.

 

Absolutely.
That’s the ‘power of the market’ for them!

Of course given that compensation from Fujitsu has being getting discussed in Parliament since 2021 at the very least. (see link below, which is an interesting read, but I’d just save as a pdf and search for ‘Fujitsu’) and there are huge Govt links to Fujitsu (Patel recently spoke at their conference, Gillian Keegan is married to their current or previous UK CEO, and the Chair of Fujitsu, who coincidentally donated £376k to the Tory party, was made a CBE and a member of the UK Health Security Agency, with Health being the biggest market for Govt contracts…I wouldn’t hold my breath!

https://hansard.parliament.uk/pdf/commons/2021-05-19

 

Just go to data point three and waggle a cotton bud in it to clean it out, or a paper clip if a bud is too big.
Then give it a good blow.
That should sort it out

 

I didn’t say Michael Keegan the previous CEO had made a donation, I said the Chair had.
My point was there are a lot of links, over many years (I merely pointed out a few I was aware of)

 

As a control and instrumentation technician that's pretty much how I fix things on a daily basis

 

Did you leave it turned off for at least 30 seconds before turning it back on?

 

Horiz…?

 

I rewatched the IT Crowd recently and I found it even funnier than I remember.

 

If you fancy being ever more infuriated about how the Post Office deliberately tried to keep compensation down even when they knew they’d done wrong then have a read of this thread.

If you have high blood pressure then I’d steer well clear.

https://x.com/danneidle/status/1745378990246736177?s=46&t=DAxwWj15XaMBwCrrY9gKFQ