Councils and IT don't work well

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Has anyone had any dealings with Councils and their IT people?

I have dealt with two this week in which we were expecting pages for their weekly free newspapers for staff.

Both phoned to say we can't upload the pages to the FTP site bith times it turned out their firewalls were blocking it.

It's weird because the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing and the right hand has to give permission to the left hand to do what it needs to do. There's that much red tape just because they have to use an FTP client.

Spoke to their IT guy who was saying

"we can't upload and this time its not the firewall". "It is port 21 right?"

Me "no it's port 423, ofcourse it's port 21"

Me " why don't you try a different client"

Council IT bloke "Ok, ahh that's worked"

Me "god dam douchebag, files coming in now".

I hate councils

 

This is his title and dept Technical Support Officer
Strategic Procurement and e-Services

So not sure of his level.

 

Is this him GBL?

 

probably

 

First line all the way. 'TSO' is the council equivalent of 'not even desktop support'

 

so he was a monkey

 

That was an ape. Don't do Chimps a disservice!

 

lol

 

Port isn't that a drink?

 

not a very nice one

 

Maybe its your French/English dialect?

 

maybe its because I type faster than the keyboard senses and maybe it was you I was speaking to douche.

 

I'm sorry i failed to add the <sarcasm> tags No need to be so offensive..

 

I forgot them too

 

No you never your just a mean and nasty man from Wales lol

 

I don't live in wales, wales is about 350miles away or something.

 

I think i have derailed this thread enough, what started as humour failed Miserably..

 

yep

 

Beers and hugs all round