Mr Jimenez’ problems with BCFerries stems from a few simple ‘P3’ issues:
piss-poor preparation
piss-poor planning
piss-poor purchasing
piss-poor upkeep
piss-poor policies
piss-poor procedures
piss-poor postings for staff
piss-poor purveyance
But, while we ponder on how a succession of ephemeral CEOs have fully wrecked anything like service from the BCFerries ‘Cruise Line’ Operation LTD LLC whatever, think of the bright side:
efficiencies have been realized, if the boats would just stop breaking down from being shitty boats shittily maintained and completely inappropriate for our weather
this fucking garbage fire of a typically-abyssmal public-private-partnership (p3) is not much worse than every other P3 as it’s a shitty idea by people who either can’t do math or put out to fool constituents who can’t do math, and so it’s not performing much worse than the rock bottom fully-enshittified norm that is the P3 scam.
it can only get better – ideally by showing why the maritime facet of Transpo should go back to where it came from so we can at least vote on a minimum of service levels and get agreements and objectives from it. You know, like an essential government service run by minimally-clued people, at least, for voting adults.
finally, it reminds us how shitty Gordon Campbell was when he was sober.
Yep. A qualifier I do believe was inserted so the employer could be the sole arbiter of whether and when to outsource work. This under-mining was a scumbag effort, and I support the costly outage the employer caused. In a country where we acknowledge a bad comma can cost a million dollars on a contract, this qualifier was huge.
tell me how this is better than simply changing all my usernames to “CorsicanGuppy is only on Jabber now, so reach out there” and shutting them all down.
(Actually I liked when pidgin worked, as I could receive on walled platforms and respond on open platforms)
But still, continuing to use closed platforms allows them to perpetuate. Sendmail killed bitnet, and we need to only continue that trend.
Welp - I’m thoroughly convinced to never upgrade from my BlackBerry Key1. I will hang on to my multi-day battery life, 3.5mm headphone jack, keyboard, notification LED, fingerprint reader, and cheap, replaceable parts till phones stop being a fucking thing.
Just this week I used a 20-year-old Radio Shack Canada Nexxtech 3.5mm mic/speaker USB connector and a DP-to-DVI connector I didn’t even know I had, in all the myriad tech junk I’m embarrassed to admit to hoarding.