Reverse Technology

After being WFR’d from DXC , and after reading the disappointment of so many , I have been inspired by the thought of reverse technology . Any ex technical staff over the age of 55 my understand this possibility.

If you are over a certain age you will remember what it is like to function in a Business environment prior to the technical revolution ( steno pads , type writer ribbons , adding machines etc) .

I think us older , so called “useless” dinosaurs should start an industry to instruct the younger set of advancing workers how to function in a world without tech .

Grids go down . Things can happen . But you need to be ble to function outside of this technical BS that is only being increased with BS inventions like “ Digital Transformation “ .

Stop the BS and start producing human efficiency.

The technical backlash is happening . People are leaving social media . Companies do not trust outsourcing , so I m seeing more in-house happening .

Take some pride in being human and stop being a working robot in a robot operated generation .

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@ual

I left in March 2018 - 9 months on, I am earning more, sleeping better, stressing less and loving life..... BTW I am 58 and have found some significant contractor opportunities exploiting my 30 years of experience in IT which make is a pleasure to get out of bed in the morning....

A lot of what I do as a consultant is to fill the gaps created by the "bright young things" who cannot function without a mobile phone in one hand and a tablet in the other.....

#wrinklypower

I visited a client the day after an excavator cut through a power line. Professional services staff had been locked-in behind card systems connected to servers that the UPS had powered down. So some climbed out of windows whilst they waiting for a door engineer. 4G dongles and laptop batteries was all that worked so they could get onto 0365. A BC plan said: "In the unlikely even that the generator fails to start..." Well it did start and smoked and stopped. "...then operations shall move to site 2" which didn't make any difference, despite not having space or vehicles to take them, the virtual desktops of both sites were powered from a shut-down server on site 1 with only 1 BT fibre link. The business came to a halt and they lost a day's money.

However, site 2 staff, because of the poor level of IT implementation, had developed manual processes to reduce reliance on IT to the point where the other side of the business could continue, as they had printouts of their orders and could print of working sheets for vehicle engineers whose PDA's had no server to tell them what jobs to go to. To these staff, the IT outage was an inconvenience but didn't stop the work.

I can't say a locked cupoboard with a printout is safer than O365, but at least you can open a cupboard! I often wonder, when business go through their digital transformation just how much resilience they give up and place all their business risk in system availability. Even Microsoft's two-factor authentification had problems this week, locking a lot of people out of their own business!

I was happier doing in-house IT. Had to be more a generalist rather than specialist but that was part of the fun.

Tell me how that is working out for you as in getting a pay check

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