ObamaCare Site Creator: 'People Fainting In Conference Calls'

ObamaCare Site Creator: 'People Fainting In Conference Calls'

CGI Federal is the Canadian IT contractor responsible for creating most of the ObamaCare website. Tuesday, after describing the site as a “complete train wreck,” the Washington Post took an in-depth look at the company — its origins, track record, and how it landed the ObamaCare contract. It is all worth a read, but one staffer told the Post that the working environment at CGI is so awful today that “People are getting sick, fainting in conference calls.”

The healthcare.gov debacle has taken its toll on the working environment at CGI Federal’s 10-story complex in Fairfax, Va., according to a staffer working on a related project who asked not to be named. “There’s been a lot of agitation and anger, because CGI really prides itself on having family flexibility,” he said, noting the firm’s liberal telework policy. Instead, the Obamacare contract has sucked more and more staff off other projects, and people have been working around the clock to first get the site ready for Oct. 1, and then fix it when things started to go wrong. “There’s a lot of frustration,” the staffer said. “People are getting sick, fainting in conference calls.”

According to the Post’s reporting, CGI is a 37-year-old company with annual revenues of $4.8 billion. In 2010, the company did $950 million worth of business with the federal government and received $88 million of the hundreds of millions spent to create the ObamaCare website.

 

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