Eskom can't take back white engineers without jumping through hoops

[ToxicBunny]

Experience trumps qualifications. I mean I often have some of the newer guys ask how I know things and it's like I just do. I can listen to how the tape library moves, I can walk into my server room and just know something isn't right.

Lies, you've just setup custom monitoring that tells you things

 

[Radioboy]

defeatist xD

100%

I can spend time here hoping - or spend that time rebuilding somewhere else.

 

[Tabac]

Exactly, it's a crisis, a disaster really. Who cares what colour they are as long as the issues get resolved. Then they can enforce their policies.

So the old dudes come and fix it, leave - policies re enforced - Wait a year and it's fcked again.

 

[zoozi]

“But working without compensation creates a whole range of problems in terms of liability, accountability, and being engaged and subject themselves to discipline as it may be required,” he stated."

Jisses then just pay them.
Christ this country...

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They have brooms to pay for man don't be daft.

 

[Lupus]

Lies, you've just setup custom monitoring that tells you things

There is that as well a good sys admin monitors everything

 

[ToxicBunny]

There is that as well a good sys admin monitors everything

and a really good sys admin keeps that monitoring to themselves, and only sends emails to their address

 

[Lupus]

and a really good sys admin keeps that monitoring to themselves, and only sends emails to their address

Oh no, another thing is to start getting people to do more work, I can't spend too much time doing everything. So I spread the load, work smart not hard.

 

[RaptorSA]

Yep, those days I'm afraid are gone. The other night as our internet went offline for a bit and I could not get Siri to turn off lights, arm the alarm or turn off the pool pump I had turned on manually, I wondered if things weren't actually simpler and easier in the old days lol.

You bring up something I've talked about with friends many times.
I also started getting into home automation at some point, it ended up making everything a pain in the ass and you end up spending more time fine tuning the problem than you actually gain from the damn automation.

The other issue is home automation needs consistency. Change your daily schedule or end up having a black swan evening drinking with a friend or something and you end up like a complete poephol fighting with your security system, lights etc. 'cause you dared stay up past 12.

Or worse actually, you get everything working then Philips Hue or whoever decides to update software or deprecate their older equipment.... *poof* effort gone, back to the drawing board.

 

[Herr der Verboten]

Eskom can't bring back the skills to stop load-shedding — here's why

Eskom can’t simply accept the offers of 70 skilled pensioners to return to the power utility and work for free, chief executive André de Ruyter has said.

Responding to questions during a recent media briefing, De Ruyter said that they must consider transformation, liability, and accountability in navigating the offers from these retirees.

Just bring back the death penalty as it is literally the answer to any problem in rsa.

 

[grok]

A 2016 World Bank policy research working paper looked at the financial viability of electricity sectors in 39 sub-Saharan African countries.

It found that in 2014, South Africa’s power utility had the largest workforce out of the 39 countries - at 41,787. It also had the largest number of customers: just over 5.4 million.

The World Bank’s analysis of staffing levels estimated that Eskom only needed a workforce of 14,244 people. One assumption in the calculation was that in developing countries, there should be one employee for every 413 electricity customers.

Eskom was therefore 66% overstaffed. The only countries with higher than optimum staff levels were Zimbabwe (67%) and Zambia (71%).

Energy expert Ted Blom, said that Eskom is overstaffed by as many as 30,000 employees, with the utility only needing 14,000 to operate, while currently employing close to 48,000 people. The 30,000 Eskom workers are also four times over-paid compared to global averages, he said.

So Eskom can afford to employ & pay 30k employees they don't need for years, but it would be impossible to employ 70 people they do need in an emergency?

If that doesn't tell you that we're living in clowntown then nothing will. But just wait, we still have lots to eat, even Zimbobwe eventually realized they cannot do it alone.

And why should they? Yes we have a history together but the situation kinda makes a mockery of "South Africa belongs to all who lives in it, black and white".

Freedom charter baby, not some white drawn up document, but is seems whites are just here to shuttup & pay tax while watching (or maybe even having a big fat laugh as) everything collapses around them.

 

[Martin_P]

What happened to Eskoms brilliant training facilities that they use to have a long time ago, I know so many electricial engineers that went through them.

 

[ShaunSA]

Offer was two years ago. Are these fogies still alive?

 

[EL'Diablo]

Can they take back engineers that identify as skilled workers instead of a skin color?

 

[Adeptus Mechanicus]

How about things like getting the job done? Transformation can happen when things are working and the old can hand over the skills to the new.

Because it's driven by the same mentality that would rather see millions spent on changing a street name than to see a street child not go hungry.

We do not have our priorities in order.

 

[RaptorSA]

What happened to Eskoms brilliant training facilities that they use to have a long time ago, I know so many electricial engineers that went through them.

Maybe they forgot to put in the automated spray room that paints you black when you reach the end of the line.

 

[Next Thing]

Experience trumps qualifications. I mean I often have some of the newer guys ask how I know things and it's like I just do. I can listen to how the tape library moves, I can walk into my server room and just know something isn't right.

You have touched on something here that was my pet irritation with more junior IT engineers.
I kept saying. Walk through the server room from time to time. Look at the lights and listen..... Answer back was... We have monitoring. Dont need to do that

 

[Lupus]

You have touched on something here that was my pet irritation with more junior IT engineers.
I kept saying. Walk through the server room from time to time. Look at the lights and listen..... Answer back was... We have monitoring. Dont need to do that

We do have monitoring, which is great for when things start to go. Like about a year ago users kept logging faults and the guy on Standby phoned me and was like I don't know what's going on, everything looks fine but they just can't get files. I took a look and was like the one library is down.

 

[Next Thing]

What happened to Eskoms brilliant training facilities that they use to have a long time ago, I know so many electricial engineers that went through them.

Same as the old Post Office/Telkom training facililties. Used to have intakes of a 1000+ people. At one stage a high percentage of people I ran into in IT graduated from those facilities

 

[John Tempus]

**** me...

Free hard working pensioners is a liability for corrupt institutions.

It is hard to loot money when there is no salary claims for said money.

But ye its disgusting to read that short sentence.

 

[RonSwanson]

Same as the old Post Office/Telkom training facililties. Used to have intakes of a 1000+ people. At one stage a high percentage of people I ran into in IT graduated from those facilities

It was world class training too.