back to article Mainframe TITSUP totals Oz tax tech, again

In a speech at the National Press Club yesterday, Australian Taxation Office commissioner Chris Jordan apologised for the organisation’s repeated IT outages, while the ATO’s online portals hit the canvas again. The ATO says it addressed the five-hour TITSUP (total inability to support usual performance) by rebooting its …

  1. Winkypop Silver badge
    FAIL

    What day is it?

    Centrelink

    Medicare

    ATO

    ...etc

  2. FozzyBear
    Alert

    TITSUP (total inability to support usual performance)

    Considering the ATO systems has spent quite a lot of time down I'd say the most recent cock-up IS becoming usual performance

    1. Meph
      Coffee/keyboard

      Total Inability To Support Usual Performance

      It's certainly defining a trend, and reminds me of a charming phrase in use amongst old LAN party buddies back in the day.

      To wit "It keeps going down faster than a two dollar hooker!"

      I may need to use that new acronym though, I can see a whole lot of places that it can be used as a valid error code.

      1. FozzyBear

        Re: Total Inability To Support Usual Performance

        "It keeps going down faster than a two dollar hooker!"

        I tend to throw marketing, HR, sales into that same employment bucket.

        At least with the original you know your getting screwed. With the marketing, sales types you're getting screwed. How is the part they surprise you with.

  3. sanmigueelbeer
    FAIL

    ATO and IT shouldn't mix (or be in the same room).

    <sarcasm>I'm really glad ATO's system is being taken care of by HPE.</sarcasm>

    (Because neither of them should be managing IT systems.)

  4. mr. deadlift

    I'm going with

    the 3par.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: I'm going with

      3par don't support mainframe....

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  5. Mark Exclamation

    You don't re-boot a mainframe...

    You re-IPL it.

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