tim... wrote:

"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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Huge wrote:
And as soon as you start having internal charging, you discover that a
significant part of the work of the company is done undocumented on
a "best effort" basis that no-one knew about. This is particularly
"amusing" when you outsource that function and either that work no
longer gets done, or the outsourcer starts to charge for it.

That was a famous bit about the BBC record library. It cost more to hire
an LP from them than it cost to buy - assuming still current. So some
producers sent an assistant out to buy the record instead. But I'll bet
didn't include how much sending that person cost.

During my first job, one of the engineers decided that it cost more in his
time to sharpen a pencil, than throwing it away and getting a new one from
the stationary cupboard

At least he wouldn't have had to run around looking for the cubboard!


I don't think anybody was under any illusions that this was economically the
best thing to do, but it was funny anyway

tim




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