Online streaming is off
Diary was pleased to read this week that IT staff at Birmingham City Council are at least as clueless as ‘living in a complete techno-bubble’ computer geeks the world over.
Staff at Brum were locked out of the authority’s first-ever set of council meetings to be shown over the InterWebNet because the adolescent heavy-metal fans in the IT department had forgotten that (as is the case in thousands of workplaces) normal employees require permission before they can access external streaming services.
Rumour has it the pasty-skinned skateboarding maniacs in Brum’s basement were blissfully unaware of the oversight.
If they are anything like the IT teams at organisations Diary’s worked for, they had long ago granted themselves unrestricted access to all InterWebNet thingies and were busy playing the latest version of Call of Duty against an unknown teenager in the Peruvian jungle while staff fumed at their inability to watch the council chamber debate on the intricacies of local parking restrictions.
Mind you, sounds like a lucky escape. Perhaps the geeks were doing you all a favour, Brum…
