San Francisco Unified School District bought PeopleSoft payroll software
that has been a nightmare for the district. Even with all the tweaking the
payroll clerks are at wit's end. Lawsuits are threatened.
The usually worthless SF Weekly (they had a cover story a few months ago on
the nefariousness of rent control, quoted Karl Marx!
http://www.sfweekly.com/issues/2000-08-09/feature.html/page1.html) had this
story. Hmm, a story on Henry George. Reminds me that out in the Avenues out
towards the Ocean there is a dusty looking storefront for "Technocracy" the
30's group.) http://www.sfweekly.com/issues/1998-07-08/news.html )
http://www.sfweekly.com/issues/2000-11-22/feature.html/page1.html
"It is about two weeks before election day, and San Francisco School Board
President (and re-election candidate) Mary Hernandez has just explained why
she is too busy to participate in a long-scheduled interview, leaving Cathi
Vogel to explain everything else. And Vogel, the school district's chief
financial officer, is doing her dead-level best to put a fresh face on an
ugly reality: After five years of trying to install computer software meant
to seamlessly integrate all of the San Francisco school district's financial
and human resources information, nothing coming out of district computers
can be trusted."
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Michael Pugliese
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Date: Monday, March 12, 2001 12:01 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:8946] Re: PeopleSoft
>I just got finished tangling with a telephone messaging system that
>undoubtedly was sold to the provincial government as a "labour saving /
>cost saving device." In the short term, it probably saves a few dollars on
>paper by concentrating workload on fewer employees. In the longer run,
>those employees get stressed out and go on sick leave, disability etc. and
>cost more than it would cost to fully staff the govt. service. Meanwhile,
>a heap of unpaid "self-serve" work is dumped on the hapless clients, who,
>if they're less educated or already overloaded with work have to simply
>abandon any hope of receiving the elusive govt. service at the end of the
>endless phone tree.
>
>
>Tom Walker
>(604) 947-2213
>
