07-19-2016, 11:51 AM
The government computer systems here become pretty funny once you realize what is going on. All these networked systems require IT administrators and techs. Nobody on the island knows how to do those jobs. There are computer science grads from UHH but almost all leave to get jobs or advanced education from the mainland. Plus IT and admin are krap jobs and paid a lot less here than the mainland. The effect of this is IT and admin are contracted out to the mainland. And there are a steady stream of people in IT and admin that step off the plane and decide they are going to live here (they think). This makes every iteration of computers systems totally dependent on companies and contracts that can change in an instant. The result is one wave of computer systems in the state of the art at the time including software gets put in, the contract support switches hands a dozen times, no funding gets requested, there they sit, old systems going tick-tock. Its hilarious and pathetically sad at the same time.
*Japanese tourist on bus through Pahoa, "Is this still America?*
*Japanese tourist on bus through Pahoa, "Is this still America?*
*Japanese tourist on bus through Pahoa, "Is this still America?*