Comments on: Report Shows Longstanding Problems with Unemployment System

By: Snidely Whiplash

Snidely Whiplash — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 20:42:24 +0000

We had a competent IT staff that would do what Deloitte did in DMS prior to Jeb Bush’s privatization push. Now we farm it out to private companies who are supposed to be doing these jobs better and cheaper. However that has seldom been the case since privatization’s secret is that it is a campaign contribution money laundry that supplies mediocre just enough product to get by and nothing more.

By: Edward Lyle

Edward Lyle — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 15:08:12 +0000

David… it’s the classic “proprietary” scam that local, state, and federal governments fall for each and every time. It’s also a result of the politically-based “lowest bid” mentality. The politicians profess their fiscal acuity to their constituents and the world by selecting the vendor with the least expensive (on its surface) product. Instead of selecting the $5-million base product that will require a $1-million annual upgrading contract… they proudly select the vendor of the $2-millon base product, proclaim their fiscal brilliance, and then conveniently ignore the $10-million annual upgrading contract.

In this lay the bait-n-switch “proprietary” scam that vendors are all to familiar with, particularly when it comes to computer software Because the bureaucrats selected the cheaper software product in order to highlight their fiscal brilliance (cough), they are then obligated to that vendor by contract and law to only deal with that vendor for maintenance and upgrades due to the proprietary nature of the vendor’s in-house designed software. In other words, and for example… Oracle is prohibited from contracting to repair or upgrade “proprietary” software developed and sold by Billy Bob’s Computer Store. This leaves the purchaser of Billy Bob’s stuck with Billy Bob and his pricing desire… and they all know it.

By: David T. Hawkins

David T. Hawkins — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 13:49:06 +0000

“Eagle said more than $73 million will be needed over the next two years to revamp the system.” …………………… That HAS to be BS. There is NO Program that should cost over $1 Million Dollars. For $73 Million you can go back to hiring more Staff and do it the way it was done 20 Years ago and get a LOT better results and STILL have money left over. STOP relying on Technology and get back to basics. In some cases, a Pen and sheet of Paper is better than a Computer.

By: Snidely Whiplash

Snidely Whiplash — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 12:05:26 +0000

The public is of the opinion that the agency head or in the case of DEO the subsequent agency head is responsable for selecting and approving wack @ss contracts to build and support failures such as our unemployment compensation failed system.
Actually The Florida Department of Management Services wants the public not to be aware of their all powerful influence and controll over agency heads selections in all such contracts.

By: Rusty

Rusty — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 10:15:14 +0000

The CONNECT system is garbage because it was developed by a company that predominantly hires foreign guest workers instead of American citizens and permanent residents. The new unemployment system will most likely be developed by a similar company with similar results. The same thing happened with the SunPass system a few years ago.

The Florida statutes restrict the State from directly hiring foreign guest workers, but they don’t restrict the State from outsourcing work to companies that hire foreign guest workers. Gov. DeSantis and the legislature need to close this loophole. Tens of thousands of American STEM workers’ careers are prematurely ended each year because of corporate addiction to the essentially limitless supply of younger, cheaper foreign guest workers available via the various federal guest worker programs, which are nothing less than the twenty-first-century equivalent of indentured servitude. So much for being woke …