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Optus CEO resigns in wake of nationwide outage (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 10 months ago by Nath@aussie.zone to c/australia@aussie.zone

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Imagine being the engineers in the middle of this. It's one thing that your incident is so bad it makes the news, it's another entirely when it is so bad the CEO resigns.

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[–] prime_factor@aussie.zone 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

As an engineer in the Aussie Telco industry, I know a lot of people that work for Telstra, or companies under the TPG group.

However I don't know anyone that works for Optus.

[–] cuppaconcrete@aussie.zone 2 points 10 months ago

Interesting point, especially given all the bad IT practices at Optus that have hit the news the last year or so - and that's just the bits we know about.

Smells like management have a lack of respect for IT and there's a distinct lack of seniority. Telstra can afford to employ the best - and have to - to satisfy the requirements of their large government/defence customer base. Optus IT seem to be a bunch of Yes people who do the wrong thing frequently, probably under pressure from the hierarchy.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 10 months ago

I knew one guy. That was in the 90's though. He ain't worked there for a loooong time.