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Amazon is next to useless right now
Prime orders are mostly 30 days delivery
just cancelled an item that hadn't shipped for a week
but they are just getting killed with orders I guess

and I consider this a massive failure by CTC
they've had weeks to scale up
server capacity is easy to rectify, just write a cheque

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As expected, Detroit is in the shitter. I feel terrible for everyone there, especially the healthcare workers.

www.cnn.com

Detroit hospital nurses refuse to work without more help, ordered to leave

Emergency room nursing staff at a Detroit hospital were told to leave Sunday night after they refused to work and demanded more nurses be brought into their overrun emergency room, health care workers there told CNN.
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"(CNN)Emergency room nursing staff at a Detroit hospital were told to leave Sunday night after they refused to work and demanded more nurses be brought into their overrun emergency room"

Because we cannot safely take care of your loved ones out here with just six, seven nurses and multiple (ventilators) and multiple people on drips. It's not right. We had two nurses the other day who had 26 patients with 10 (ventilators)."

The nurses need extra help, because for three straight weeks they've had more than 110 patients in the ER

After the nightside nurses were told to leave, the dayside nurses were told they needed to continue working -- meaning they would work a 24-hour shift,
 
J_F said:
Amazon is next to useless right now
Prime orders are mostly 30 days delivery
just cancelled an item that hadn't shipped for a week
but they are just getting killed with orders I guess

and I consider this a massive failure by CTC
they've had weeks to scale up
server capacity is easy to rectify, just write a cheque

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They may not have the skills. I was in charge of IT at my previous job. I could do everything required of that role in normal situations. If I suddenly needed to scale the infrastructure by 30x I would be entirely outgunned and fall flat on my face. Now I'm not saying this is CT's problem, but it is a possibility. That degree of scaling may require staff with a different skill set and potentially a major rewrite of the existing system to allow the scaling to happen. That doesnt happen overnight.
 
GreyGhost said:
Didnt the province or country just sign up with amazon to be their official distributor of emergency supplies? They arent a bad choice for distribution might but I hope there is some government oversight for fairness in price and distribution.
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If only the federal government had their own delivery service in place to deliver packages.
 
Mad Mike said:
Ever been to Louisiana? If so you might understand how they got into this situation. It's poor, with a lot of concentration in cities. It has the most unhealthy population in the country. Governance is historically parochial, also in the bible belt where faith is a formidable competitor to science.

The American version of a wet market for a virus.
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Yes, I thought it should have a big handle on it to flush it.
The city that is.
 
GreyGhost said:
They may not have the skills. I was in charge of IT at my previous job. I could do everything required of that role in normal situations. If I suddenly needed to scale the infrastructure by 30x I would be entirely outgunned and fall flat on my face. Now I'm not saying this is CT's problem, but it is a possibility. That degree of scaling may require staff with a different skill set and potentially a major rewrite of the existing system to allow the scaling to happen. That doesnt happen overnight.
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true enough, but it hasn't been overnight, it's been weeks to prepare
if they host themselves then yes, this would be a large project

another learning from this situation
have a plan to scale your online store, quickly
 
Trials said:
Yes, I thought it should have a big handle on it to flush it.
The city that is.
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Uhhh, Louisiana is a state.

Their big cities are Baton Rouge, New Orleans, and Shreveport.
 
Gary said:
I placed an order at Can Tire around 1am today. Went to bed. Got up. Looked at email and it was ready. I got to the store and less than 5 minutes later I was on my way.
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Same for me. If the site was down, I just ordered my item in the evening, and by morning I had an email stating that my order was ready. Minor inconvenience.
 
yeah not a big deal for me

just commenting that it is a failure for a company of that size ~ 15B annual retail sales
don't see any other retailers throwing up a come back later page

if CTC has a risk management department (and being a large public company they will)
I'm guessing whomever runs it is in the hotseat

stock looks like it might be a decent buy
if they can survive walmart they can survive Covid19
 
Mad Mike said:
Uhhh, Louisiana is a state.

Their big cities are Baton Rouge, New Orleans, and Shreveport.
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The one with the sign at the top of the hill that says welcome to New Orleans.
Although I seen it before the storm hit, can easy imagine what it is now, very sad.
Lots of city's around the world are built where they really should not be.
 
J_F said:
just commenting that it is a failure for a company of that size ~ 15B annual retail sales
don't see any other retailers throwing up a come back later page

if CTC has a risk management department (and being a large public company they will)
I'm guessing whomever runs it is in the hotseat
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The bigger they are...the more resources they have to throw at it ..sure.
But also the slower they move..often times there are a lot of approvals that these kind of major changes have to go through
And if they're in any kinda of Business Continuity Plan (for deciding whether segment x uses measure y during the essential service closure) then there are probably more hurdles to cross to get those approvals to go through.

Big often means not very efficient at moving quickly.
 
in defense of NOLA
Mardis Gras celebrations begin in January
winding up to the grand parade which was held this year on Feb 25 - Fat Tuesday

how many people here knew in February that the disease was loose in our communities?
we were all out doing our thing then

and personally I like the city - but seedy attracts me
 
$15B public company in annual retail sales

Risk Management

shouldn't be figuring it now
should have a mitigation plan in place
with board approval
ready to flip the switch when needed

they failed
 
Scientific America: "So, how does one reengineer the entire Mississippi River delta—one of the largest in the world—on which New Orleans lies? Three international engineering and design teams have reached a startling answer: leave the mouth of the Mississippi River to die."
The city location, not the people.
 
Trials said:
Scientific America: "So, how does one reengineer the entire Mississippi River delta—one of the largest in the world—on which New Orleans lies? Three international engineering and design teams have reached a startling answer: leave the mouth of the Mississippi River to die."
The city location, not the people.
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I visited New Orleans in 2008, or 2009. Three or four years after Katrina. A lot of the lower income areas like the 9th ward were still destroyed and abandoned.
 
Dont some places have Plexiglas barrier/walls for drivers?
 
J_F said:
...if CTC has a risk management department (and being a large public company they will)
I'm guessing whomever runs it is in the hotseat...
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I'm guessing his seat is on fire! I mentioned before that big companies will review the resiliency of their leaders once hey emerge. They\ll do it to make sure the ones who led well move forward and the ones who struggled move back. Being an omni-channel business means serving customers where and when they need service, not sometimes all the time. Banks, gov't services and other large scale retailers managed to scale and operate their digital channels without missing a beat - I sure wouldn't want to be the exec or anywhere close to the team responsible for CTC's corporate site -- considering their turnover is $30million a day, I can't imagine the consequences for "no spark".
 
J_F said:
Amazon is next to useless right now
Prime orders are mostly 30 days delivery
just cancelled an item that hadn't shipped for a week
but they are just getting killed with orders I guess

and I consider this a massive failure by CTC
they've had weeks to scale up
server capacity is easy to rectify, just write a cheque

U1XvWBm.jpg
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I'll say this. Scaling up isn't as simple as buying more hardware in a lot of cases.

Lot of people think they know what goes in enterprise IT.

Sorry, if I'm coming off as a dick but I just had a conference call with someone in business side who thinks he knows more about the IT systems than I do.

Source: IT professional of 10 years.
 
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