I am assured this is true by someone I trust*
A certain large telecommunications company whose adverts are always wank** was getting lots of grief over the amount of time it took them to deal with faults, especially those which should have been a high priority.

So, after much management bullshitting brainstorming it was decided that they needed special teams of engineers based in strategic locations around the country that could be called upon at any time to attend major faults and get things running again quickly. So far, so sensible.

At the time, said company was earning profits not unadjacent to £90 per second so were able to throw money at the problem. One bright idea, because major outages could happen at night and/or by busy roads, was to provide the engineers with special reflective tabards to ensure their safety. These tabards were marked with the initials of the name given to this special group of engineers so they could be easily identified by colleagues as being the expert troubleshooters.

The name given to this elite squad that was initialled in 3-inch high letters onto their tabards?

Fast
Action
Response
Teams

*his dad's a former engineer and ALLEGEDLY still has the tabard.
**except the Stephen Hawking one
( Snappyuk gets BIGGER with free sample., Thu 23 Feb 2012, 23:25, 2 replies)

If they had that many faults they must have felt
like they were blowing against the wind.
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Fri 24 Feb 2012, 8:01, closed)

POIDH

(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Fri 24 Feb 2012, 11:10, closed)