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| Thread ID: 129090 | 2013-02-02 06:10:00 | Teachers pay - the lack of it. | mzee (3324) | PC World Chat |
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| 1326144 | 2013-02-02 11:26:00 | :D I should hope not - it's what I do for a living (not with pay systems though... But the same principle applies)!!! I was quite chuffed a number of years ago after having sold this business some software I said how I was thinking of doing a rewrite of it so asked this lass how she thought I could improve it and she said she didn't think I could. They have been using it for over ten years now and the only time I hear from them is after their PC or HD has died. I had one occasion where I was painting a roof in Masterton and got a call from him at 4pm. I dropped tools and was at his place in Gisborne by 10pm and problem solved by 9am the next morning. I would go to the ends of the earth for this guy as he has always treated me so well and always paid me more than I have ever asked. Now with broadband and Teamviewer I no longer have to do such a mad dash. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1326145 | 2013-02-02 19:07:00 | Can't fault your logic there. +1 In addition there are a great many people who are far more interested in scoring political points than getting the system sorted out. It does not help. |
CliveM (6007) | ||
| 1326146 | 2013-02-02 19:24:00 | I was quite chuffed a number of years ago after having sold this business some software I said how I was thinking of doing a rewrite of it so asked this lass how she thought I could improve it and she said she didn't think I could. They have been using it for over ten years now and the only time I hear from them is after their PC or HD has died. I had one occasion where I was painting a roof in Masterton and got a call from him at 4pm. I dropped tools and was at his place in Gisborne by 10pm and problem solved by 9am the next morning. I would go to the ends of the earth for this guy as he has always treated me so well and always paid me more than I have ever asked. Now with broadband and Teamviewer I no longer have to do such a mad dash. Well done - customer service pays off. Both ways. |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 1326147 | 2013-02-02 19:52:00 | It would be a a very difficult payroll system to construct. Because there are part time and relieving teachers, you have to pay the old caretaker who is at home recovering from a heart attack. There are teachers on standown who have lost their teachers certificate. There are buku schools and teachers and the reason they want a new system was the old one was causing problems. Any you are paying activist commie types who would moan about anything. There so many variables I doubt any system invented by man would that reliable. What utter BS but what did I expect from a lover of the Dear Leader, this government has had plenty of time to kick Talent2 in the teeth and fix the problem for no more money but of course they won't it's a foreign company so they will just roll over like a Labrador and say scratch my tummy and I'll give you whatever you want, that's the biggest problem having dictatorial government like we do now |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 1326148 | 2013-02-03 00:20:00 | Not in any way intended as a partial solution to this fiasco but I've often wondered why public servants and presumably some other professions are paid fortnightly in NZ compared to monthly as many salaried employees are in other countries? | bonzo29 (2348) | ||
| 1326149 | 2013-02-03 00:54:00 | Well done - customer service pays off. Both ways. +1 That was impressively superior service on your part Mike. |
WalOne (4202) | ||
| 1326150 | 2013-02-03 00:55:00 | Not in any way intended as a partial solution to this fiasco but I've often wondered why public servants and presumably some other professions are paid fortnightly in NZ compared to monthly as many salaried employees are in other countries?Then they would stuff it up every month instead of every fortnight eh?. | Pato (2463) | ||
| 1326151 | 2013-02-03 01:02:00 | I think the problems are over exaggerated by the left wing teachers union. I keep asking how many teachers did not get paid at all in each pay run and no one can answer. It does seem that the teachers payroll is too complicated. Perhaps they don't like being forced into a logical fixed system which you have to have when you have 100,000 people to pay! I do think that NovoPay and the Education Department have been very lacking in giving us information. I can see why Datacom did not want to do it anymore. And don't forget if as it seems Novopay were not yet confident, they did not have to sign the contract. Having signed it, they should bear the cost of all remedies. |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1326152 | 2013-02-03 01:05:00 | Then they would stuff it up every month instead of every fortnight eh?. Then someone would claim they've instituted changes that have reduced the incidence of stuff ups by over half ... |
WalOne (4202) | ||
| 1326153 | 2013-02-03 03:25:00 | Having written a few computer programs in my years of work (they were almost all my own work and for slightly essential tasks), I am pleased to hear the comments from experienced programmers who followed sensible procedures and produced working systems. It seems that the common basic rules applied to my small scale jobs weren't applied in the case of Novopay, unless the Education Department demanded that the system be run live before Novopay could confirm that it was working properly. | coldot (6847) | ||
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