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rob, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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Morning. Some real warriors among that lot ay?
Anybody still Christmassing?
Ploughing through annual accounts here.
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edjogs Collared doves are shit., Mon 30 Dec 2013, 10:50,
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Off work until the 6thThen it'll all go mental. The imminent arrival of the Xmas cash goblins* made some of the waverers actually place orders for the machines we'd been quoting them - on the last working Friday of the year FFS.
They'll all be screaming for installation dates when I go back.
*The ones that steal the budgets if they're not spent by Xmas.
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Amazing how things become urgent the secondthe customer can be arsed.
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edjogs Collared doves are shit., Mon 30 Dec 2013, 11:24,
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It's very simple.If you don't use that money, then you can get by without it. So they reduce your budget and re-allocate it somewhere else. Perhaps to profit margins, as I don't think budgeted money is counted as a margin, but as wastage. Or perhaps to another department that does need more money. Or to director bonuses.
I imagine you don't understand it because your 1960s miner mentality still has one of its commie-loving feet in t'fockin' pit.
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Kroney, Mon 30 Dec 2013, 11:54,
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Could also be seen as short-sighted and short-termistMaybe if the budget was rolled over and added to, the department could afford better equipment and become more efficient/profitable, thereby increasing the profits of the company, leading to more money coming in and enhanced bonuses/margins/potential to prop up other departments.
Just a thought.
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I wish mate.Her and her magic Icing sugar. Good crimbo? New year plans?
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