If there was one utter PITA during my lst few years in the RAF, it was wanquerres with wires installing some promised 'network' system or other every few months, or so it seemed....
None of which added
anything to our efficiency. Just more and more screens cluttering up the Ops desks of the squadrons.
Bosses stopped being bosses who fired files down to lesser folk - they became Wg Cdr Typists. Always gazing at screens full of junk e-mails instead of leading their squadrons.
It started with that slow, unwieldy thing called ASMA, then we had the abysmal STARS which occupied hours of peoples' time. Oh, and SAMA...
None of which systems actually achieved much which a phone, fax or chinagraph board couldn't achieve more simply, cheaply and flexibly. But Our Great Leaders were seduced by this crap, even though anything useful was banned by the leaden-footed CIS-pigs with their paranoia.
Has any of this
$hIT-system been specified by the end user - or anyone familiar with the end users' requirements? Or is it, as usual, a question of "Here it is, now make it work"....
