I have to be moderately careful what I say.
EDIT: Alt: The wheels of industry need to be greased.
Our facility needed a new medication trolley. This a trolley that the RN trundles around doling out meds daily. It's made of steel, has 2 lockable drawers and a bench top which also has a swing-arm with a touch-screen computer connected to it.
I was there when the regional manager told the RN that she could have AUD$500 for a new meds trolley.
Our facility manager went and got an old 1 from another site. Without my or the RN's knowledge or say-so.
2 days later the top drawer drops out of the cabinet nearly de-toeing the RN. As it's an OSH (Occupational Safety & Health - I am the OSH representative) issue I organise for a contractor replace the drawer runners (for both drawers as the the bottom drawer is dodgy as well - so it seems). That cost $460 inc. parts & labor - I could've put the runners in myself but the organisation "insists" on having contractors for this type of thing and the runners for me at cost would've been $240 anyway.
The manager then miraculously managed to find $500 for our Staff Christmas Party - a meal and piss up @ the local pub. It was fairly ok. I didn't drink but the food was quite yummy.
Penny-wise and pound-foolish.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Sun 26 Feb 2012, 8:11, 1 reply)

I'd call it mongement but I'd be insulting mongs
I know just what you mean.

Gone in on a day off to deal with alarm maintenance, as the security alarm tech does me some favors (being as I'm married to him). Only to find, well, only to NOT find the fire/smoke detectors where they ought to be.

I've no doubt that I shall walk into some exec's office and find the parts in there, after all, it's more important to save a few coins by trying to replace batteries oneself (eventually) than to call in the tech to check a low battery on a piece of wireless equipment attached to the ceiling. It's just a few fire/smoke detectors in a Victorian-era wood frame building full of flammables and on some days, actual workers working.

And if the exec's made a mess of things, each one is a $150 device, installed, and I am not going to ask Mr. Kila to give it to us as a favor.
( kila is reading clocks upside-down as usual, Mon 27 Feb 2012, 8:17, closed)