Remember that boondoggle court computer system? It’s been shitcanned by the Legislature: The plug has been pulled on one of the biggest boondoggles in California history – the effort to build a $2 billion computer system linking the state’s 58 county courts. It never worked, and some say it was doomed from the start. The [...]
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Legislature Shitcans Court Computer System
Posted in organizational behavior on April 1, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Shocking Video of Seattle Police Mocking Injured Jogger
Posted in organizational behavior on December 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It’s like a bad episode of Reno-911. A jogger clings to life after being hit by a semi — and the police crack jokes: Officer 1 ‘That’s why you drive a car!’ Officer 2 ‘Yeah, don’t try to jog to work, you dumb fuck!’ Click through to komo-news for the video and interview with the [...]
Loose Cannon
Posted in organizational behavior on December 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A recent ‘Mythbusters’ cannonball experiment nearly resulted in tragedy when an errant cannonball smashed through a suburban neighborhood. The projectile sailed through a bedroom where a couple and their child were sleeping. After exiting the bedroom, it smashed into a minivan that had been parked just 10 minutes earlier. The cannonball blast did not come [...]
Idiocracy
Posted in organizational behavior, tagged Caltrans, CHSRA, high-speed rail on July 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »
“Peer Review Group” has issued a report on the organizational structure of California high-speed rail. The group has reached a depressing conclusion that nobody in the State has the necessary skill set to develop a high-speed rail system, or even negotiate a PPP: The LAO Report identifies a concern with Caltrans’ “…lack of expertise in [...]
Did Spelling Error Lead to Flight 253 Security Breach?
Posted in organizational behavior on January 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
President Obama has described the failure to uncover the Underwear Bomber as a ‘Systemic Failure’, but the White House report suggests the primary cause might be something as simple as a misspelling: Mr. Abdulmutallab possessed a U.S. visa, but this fact was not correlated with the concerns of Mr. Abdulmutallab’s father about Mr. Abdulmutallab’s potential [...]
Incompetence vs. Corruption
Posted in organizational behavior on September 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The AP reports: The watchdog of the Securities and Exchange Commission has found that three agency exams and two investigations of Bernard Madoff’s business were incompetent, despite ample warnings of the multibillion-dollar fraud. But SEC inspector general David Kotz’s report found no evidence of any improper ties between agency officials and Madoff. This conclusion by [...]
