I worked a short time for a government outsourced IT contract. Realize the people you are talking to are probably powerless to fix anything. They often recognize a lot of the problems but don't even have enough of a budget to keep what they have running forget making improvments. When money does come through it is usualy not enough to do the whole project and even then it goes to lowest bidder that is just going to hit the bare minum required by the contract.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Lorin Ricker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Lorin@rickernet.us">Lorin@rickernet.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid;" class="gmail_quote">
Our Colorado state government, absolutely (mis)guided by their<br>
respective departmental IT cat-herds, is absolutely clueless about web<br>
services and the client/browser technology needed to access *our*<br>
resources and services. I had a similar run-in with the Sec'y of<br>
State's office last fall when I needed to file some liens -- couldn't<br>
file or pay for them online *except* through IE (and they *preferred*<br>
v6!!!). Talking to their "help desk" was a joke.<br>
<br>
Yes, Matt, this is totally unacceptable... But complaints will likely<br>
fall on deaf bureaucratic, institutionalized, job-for-life-regardless<br>
ears. Best we can all do is cease and desist electing state idiots, and<br>
get the rest fired somehow. D's and R's, reds and blues, libs and cons<br>
alike.<br>
<br>
Just my 2˘ worth.<br>
<font color="#888888"> -- Lorin<br>
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On 05/03/2011 04:54 PM, Matt Dew wrote:<br>
> WTF!?!?!?!<br>
><br>
> <a href="https://www.colorado.gov/revenueonline/" target="_blank">https://www.colorado.gov/revenueonline/</a><br>
><br>
> Who do I need to scream at?<br>
><br>
> I'm serious. I consider this _COMPLETELY_ _UNACCEPTABLE_. Where do I<br>
> make noise about this?<br>
><br>
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