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Previously on "Hester remains adamant that it wasn't Bob's fault"
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People from Edinburgh are almost as hapless and useless as bobs, no wonder it was a disaster.
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What percentage of the staff in Edinburgh are Bobs they have flown over? I worked for Bangalore Telecom in Leeds on their bit of connecting for health and BT had a load of TechM Bobs that they had brought in. Just because the fault was created over here does not mean much these days.
The people who used to administer some of our servers were a load of Bobs that worked out of an office in Northern Ireland
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Reading some stuff over the weekend, it seems that Hester is being disingenuous.
As I understand it, the system maintenance might be done in the UK, but the batch schedules themselves, where the problems occurred, are down to Bob.
Is that correct?
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Lets hope the select committee ask the correct questions
'Who was at the tiller when the ship foundered?'
'Were they competent?'
'If so why did it happen?'
'Is the failure directly attributable to cost cutting?'
'If you hadn't offshored would the error be less likely to have occurred?'
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Hester remains adamant that it wasn't Bob's fault
24Yes, Bob's your man66.67%16No it was not Bob's doings4.17%1It is many people's doings20.83%5AndyW reserves the right to withhold judgment until independent verifiable evidence is presented8.33%2Well he doesn't say specifically that it wasn't Bob, but that's the impression he wants to give IMO:
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The initial reviews we have carried out indicate that the problem was created when maintenance on systems , which are managed and operated by our team in Edinburgh, caused an error in our batch scheduler. This error caused the automated batch processing to fail on the night of Tuesday 19 June.
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Stephen Hester's response to Andrew Tyrie MP, chairman of the Treasury Select Committee
Where was the 'maintenance on systems' done?
ICT Bob?
Predictable cover up?
Weasly words?
What about the Indian CA-7 advert?
Any other conspiracy theories?
Truth (you never know)?
You decide.
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