Corporate Lies -

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Until mid September of this year, I had worked for a midsize corporation that provides service for among others many of the baby bells. We took the orders and shipped the goods, that is the phones, special equipment for call waiting, anything that required something physical to be shipped.

When I went to work for this company I asked the head of IT about Y2K, he said no problem here. They had the standard disclaimer at their web site and told the SEC that we were in great shape.

August 1999 - old IT boss resigns. New boss finds that NOTHING has been done. So in September 1999 company hires about 40 programmers for a crash effort to save their asses. From what I could tell they really had few clues as to what all needed to be looked into. They will be on my SHORT list come Y2k.

-- goldbug (goldbug@mint.com), December 22, 1999

Answers

GB Interesting post, too bad about, you know who. Is this you posting? Or a cut and paste from somewhere else? I ask only because I have seen you post often here before and wonder why this information is being shared now, rather than in September. Or perhaps this is a re- post?

-- rw (ridleywalker@aol.com), December 22, 1999.

My post. I don't know, it only recently occured to me to share it because some pollys were saying how well prepared business is.

-- goldbug (goldbug@mint.com), December 23, 1999.

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