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Issue date: 5 November 1999

Californian companies unprepared for Y2K

Most California companies wont have staff in place to deal with potential Y2K problems as the important date change occurs according to a new survey.

The Employers Group survey found that 63 percent of polled companies wont significantly alter their staff's work schedules over the New Year and 77 percent there will be no limits on staff vacation or personal time during the date roll-over. The survey polled 619 companies in a variety of industries.

"California's economy is dominated by small- and mid-sized companies, and these firms are not changing their staffing schedules as the Y2K weekend approaches," said William Dahlman CEO of Employers Group. "Our survey shows that concern over the transition to the year 2000 is greatest in the public service sector."

Y2K experts have complained about the sometimes lax Y2K preparations of smaller companies. The survey showed that the larger the company, the more likely it is to make sure it has staff on-site able to handle Y2K problems that may occur.

-- Uncle Bob (UNCLB0B@Tminus56&counting.down), November 05, 1999

Answers

"Y2K experts have complained about the sometimes lax Y2K preparations of smaller companies."

Sometimes lax, did you say! Gimme a shovel.

Even the Big K said 8,000,000+ may be forced to close! That's between a half and a third, depending on whose numbers you choose. 40% of all of 'em, of allllll those companies that together employ half the private workforce, alllllll those companies that generate more than half of the nation's Gross Domestic Product...

But heck, 44% of the large companies won't be ready either, so why just cry about the little guys.

It's all spilled milk now anyway.

"Got mops?" asks the girl in the tinfoil beret.

-- Faith Weaver (suzsolutions@yahoo.com), November 05, 1999.

Consulting with a smaller CA organization. They're "not quite sure" if the PC's are compliant and nobody's downloaded the Microsoft s/w patches yet.

*Big Sigh*

(I HATE PC's & M/S Windows, even though I'm bi-computer!)

Grrr.

Diane, (Mac's Rule!... or at least they should!)

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), November 05, 1999.

...with you on the macside, Diane. with this latest Macro$cam ruling, and the obvious really bad problems with those clone pc machines and that ridiculous operating system, i am wagering that-if it isn't a huge crash, just a small one-that folks will be dumping the pc/wintell/clone hardware and Macro$cam software by the trainload. I mean, right this very minute, just the security issues with those machines are enough to chunk em in the trash, let alone use them for anything important.. I have used and still own both, and there's simply no comparison whatsoever...none.... Folks by the millions got sucked in by the "cheaper is better" deal. Well, it didn't work for the yugo..ya get what ya pay for, it seems...we'll see how the puter biz will shake out...looking forward to a G4 machine myself, I'm 3 generations behind already! hehehehehehehehehe maczog

-- zog (zzoggy@yahoo.com), November 06, 1999.