Postby Big Pete » Wed Aug 23, 2017 10:12 am
Well JK,
Call me an old cynic if you like, but the USN sacked several Officers and took disciplinary action against others after their other Destroyer collided in the Sea of Japan. I suspect there is high probability that the OOW was updating his Facebook profile, or something similar, at the time of the collision.
When I went on a Kongsberg Training Course one of the instructors told us they were called out to a Dive Support ship or something similar that had two DP desks side by side so that 2 DP operators were continuously on watch, each one supposedly backing up the other. The displays on both units had failed. His investigation showed that someone had replaced the original Kongsberg Graphics Card in one of the PCs for the "Operator Interface" Eventually the DPOs admitted that one played computer games on one of the DP consoles while the other drove the ship, and that the Kongsberg Graphics card wouldn't allow them to play some of the Games they liked. so they went out and bought a more powerful Graphics card and installed it themselves, unfortunatly it wasn't compatible with the system and caused the displays to go down completely.
There has been a lot of talk over the last few years about Productivity at work not increasing, I think a lot of it is due to people spending a large part of the working day playing computer games or on their smart phones, rather than working.
BP
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