{"id":5836,"date":"2010-02-17T08:38:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T13:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5836"},"modified":"2010-02-17T08:38:06","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T13:38:06","slug":"technology_rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/02\/technology_rules.html","title":{"rendered":"Technology Rules!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over half a billion dollars to prevent municipal waste . . . uh, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2010\/02\/12\/2010-02-12_time_to_audit_citytime_new_controller_sez_big_bucks_stop_here_for_wasteful_hitec.html\">yeah<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>When development of CityTime began in 1998, officials promised it would use new-age hand scanners and other technology to eliminate abuse of employee timecards by thousands of workers.<\/p>\n<p>The system has instead turned into an uncontrolled gravy train for high-paid consultants and a boondoggle for taxpayers.<\/p>\n<p>CityTime &#8220;has a long history of extraordinary increases, rising from $68 million to $722 million over 10 years,&#8221; Liu&#8217;s director of contract administration, John Goddard, wrote on Feb. 9 in notifying Bloomberg aides of his rejection of the new contract for Spherion Inc.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over half a billion dollars to prevent municipal waste . . . uh, yeah: When development of CityTime began in 1998, officials promised it would use new-age hand scanners and other technology to eliminate abuse of employee timecards by thousands of workers. The system has instead turned into an uncontrolled gravy train for high-paid consultants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-follow_the_money","category-youre_kidding_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5837,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5836\/revisions\/5837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}