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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

We should never have farmed these essential public services out to for-profit businesses anyway.

Expand GDS, move all these responsibilities there

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 1 points 5 months ago

Expand GDS

US multinationals reaching for their check books....

[–] mackwinston@feddit.uk 7 points 5 months ago

Surprised it's not Crapita.

[–] rubikcuber@feddit.uk 4 points 5 months ago

I'm shocked, shocked that outsourcing public sector contracts to the lowest bidder results in this scenario.

[–] kralk@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is the same Atos which is currently sponsoring the Euros? Those guys are having cashflow issues?

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 5 months ago

Yep. They're also have an employee issues because they won't give us our pay risers even though they said they would give us the pay risers less than a week earlier.