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United Airlines nationwide computer outage
Here we go again, according to Los Angeles flight crew United's system is down nationwide. No eta. All flights held on ground until it is resolved (i.imgur.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
United not only breaks guitars.
United has had problems with their computers ever since switching to the Continental system earlier this year. I switched to AA for my travels after they left myself and several others a the gate, and the aircraft left with open seats because their agents didn't know how to get us on the flight.
That is sad, but today many businesses have the same problem. When the computers go down, the business shuts down. Ever been in Wal-Mart when the computers fail? May as well abandon the shopping cart. To do anything manually seems to be out of the question anymore, along with common sense.
Well, that is a fallacy of today's business. The computers save a ton of work and give untold information, but there is no halfway. You are either on them or off them. I was in a local feed store the othr day and the kids are all running it and transformed over to a computer system. I made my purchase and while waiting on the computer to talley & ticket, the company founder was there and said " If I had my paper and pencil, I'd aleady have had you out of here".
Yep. The ultimate redundancy-pencil & paper.
Several years ago I was in a grocery store when the barcode scanner computer went down. Clerks at the registers would suggest a price for each item and the customer would either agree or propose a different price, which the clerks usually accepted. The store probably lost money that day, but they didn't lose customers.
There are those who need a computer on the ground to fly their aircraft, and then there are others who can fly with little more than a piece of yarn taped to the cowling.