As many of you may know the county treasurer's office is in a big mess,
and people are calling for Treasurer Nancy Davis' resignation.  The
county is going to have to spend upwards of $150K to straighten the
mess out.

In the AA news story on the county treasurer, she says the
problems are because "they turned off the old computer system before the new
one was ready."  Any idea just who exactly are the *they* she is referring
to?  Wouldn't anybody in the position to "turn off" the old computer system
work for her?  Or at least wouldn't she have the authority to dictate that
the old system be kept active?  Sounds to me like she is blaming her
subordinates for her own screw-ups.

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It sounds more like she's blaming the computer for her own screwups, as if
it being the computer's fault completely excuses her.  To use an example
based on the GM Helpline post, this would be like a delivery company
being six months late with a delivery, and saying it wasn't their fault
because they got a new truck and didn't know wherethe ignition keyhole
was.  There's a quote I read a few years ago that assems to adequately sum
up the problems at the Treasurer's Office, "there's no such thing as
computer error, there is only human error."  If she doesn't understand the
new computer well enough to prevent it from losing months and months worth
of recoreds, she probably shouldn't have gotten rid of the old one.

They're hiring on thousands of dollars worth of extra staff -- she said it's
what she's been asking for all along.  Wouldn't _everyone_ love to be
approved for extra staff?  I'm sure she found herself way in over her head
and would probably do fine in some job -- just not this one.

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