Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Tuesday, August 9, 2016

Delta: It's Not Only Your Luggage That Won't Arrive


They lost power to their computer system in Atlanta and everything shit the bed. A day afterwards and Delta's schedule is not back to normal.

I'm guessing that there is at least one airline that is going to be shopping for some big honking backup generators.

(Sorry about the bad link.)

7 comments:

deadstick said...

How about some big competent IT managers?

Comrade Misfit said...

Probably a good bet that somebody's going to lose their job over this one.

The New York Crank said...

Delta was sincerely hated, despised and loathed long before it screwed every single passenger it had yesterday. For one example, see a 2010 post on my own cranky blog, here: http://thenewyorkcrank.blogspot.com/search?q=Delta

Yours crankily,
The New York Crank

hans said...

good take on this from Cringely
http://www.cringely.com/2016/08/08/outsourced-probably-hurt-delta-airlines-power-went/

montag said...

The Delta bean counters will tote up all the costs of this outage and if it doesn't reach a critical number Delta will do nothing beyond a ceremonial firing, if anybody is still watching.

Paul W said...

Thank God for Southwest.

As someone who lives in Florida, any air travel I plan involves avoiding Delta and the Atlanta 9th Hub of Hell at all hazards.

Anonymous said...

Here's the real story of what went wrong:
http://www.zdnet.com/article/delta-system-outage-heres-what-went-wrong/

And somebody should lose their job(s) over this.