Feds Take USAjobs.gov Back From Monster, Performance Tanks 175
dcblogs writes "Complaints about the performance of USAjobs.gov, the government's central website for job applicants, are piling up after the U.S. took control this month of the site from Monster.com. The government's official Facebook page has seen nothing but negative comments from users about lag time, search engine failures, and other problems since the U.S. Office of Personnel Management built a new site. The government employs more than 2.6 million people. Linda Rix, the co-CEO of Avue Technologies Corp., a federal contractor who has tested the site, said this about the federal effort: 'They are a personnel management agency, they are not a technology company, and this clearly demonstrates that they don't have the technology skills to be able to do this.'" They're working on it, though — one of their recent Facebook updates says, "Quick update: The three new blade servers have increased our capacity and the system is running smoothly."
Re:Can't wait.. (Score:4, Informative)
Which is why their competition does well. Who competes with the government?
You are aware that the "competition" just resells packages through those companies, right?
Incomplete Article (Score:4, Informative)
To be fair, USAJobs.gov's performance also sucked when monster ran it.
Re:Can't wait.. (Score:5, Informative)
my dad was in the Airforce, we had TriCare, and I got medical coverage on base.
Government healthcare also can kick ass sometimes when they're tasked to do it right.
Re:Does anyone else not care? (Score:5, Informative)
I agree.
I typically browse usajobs.gov and the site was terrible before. You couldn't press your back button, it would nag you to use IE6, the search sucked, selecting options was futile and the performance was terrible.
The new site is ten times better. Anyone that thinks the old site was better is delusional or being paid by Monster.
Re:Queue the negative comments (Score:3, Informative)
And you would be wrong. Queue is a perfectly acceptable English word, derived from the French word for "tail".
And you would be wrong. The idiom is "cue", not "queue", though both happen to work depending on how flexible one is on the meaning.
Given this is supposedly (though rarely actually) a technology discussion site, I think "queue" in this context could be clever. I doubt it was meant as such, however.
Monster isn't doing it anymore! Yay! (Score:5, Informative)
The old site was one of the worst job sites on the internet. I'm not sure if it's any better, but I don't think it could have gotten worse.