On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 23:31 +0000, Dinesh Patel wrote:
> Have you seen the email today. The toolkit is going down for an upgrade till the March 3rd.
This is not believable.
Even allowing for the ... wise and sagacious gentlemen and honest
business partners ... involved in specifying and delivering whatever
this service is being the same bunch of ... clever, public-spirited,
farseeing, honest, talented hardworking careful thorough and giving a
shit about others ... people that implemented the junior doctor/job
allocation system a couple of years ago, this is not a believable
explanation for what has happened.
So as someone once suggested, while they are saying this, one wonders
what actually happened.
Did Conficker Worm get in, as in Sheffield and Manchester, and the
Police force? Or something worse?
A test to apply would be to ask for the file and measure how long the
response takes. It would be reasonable for someone to say that they
needed the file tomorrow, for their appraisal, as even if their
appraisal is next year clearly one needs the file.
Is anyone in a position to do that?
I'm not, because despite my great fondness for competent IT, and my many
foolishness enthusiasms and tendency to trust people who say they know
how to do things and understand the use I am to make of them and my
needs, I have not been a big enough idiot to even contemplate using this
system.
I mentioned something along these lines, in the very briefest, mildest
and most general terms to an estimable colleague who had been suggested
by the PCT as an appraiser for me, and who made some detailed
suggestions about how I might live my life so as to fit in with his
single particular job, and regrettably his services became unavailable
to me at short, indeed no (he said he sent me email about it via
NHS.Net) notice. I expect something unexpected came up unexpectedly to
do with his family or practice hence his not feeling any nee to explain
himself.
Does anyone wish to state that they are surprised by this event - the
index one, not a potential appraiser for me becoming busy elsewhere,
even I applaud the wisdom of people not attempting jobs that they lack
visible aptitude for.
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