[Boatanchors] Mouser Order - OK already, I get it!

[J. Forster]

Different point of view, I guess.

I go into a govt. office and I see lines at the counter and groups of
employees standing around chatting away from the customers.

I call a govt. office and it takes 10 or 20 tries to get a person.

There are crews of 5 or more out planting a small tree. Ditto fixing a
pothole.

As to generalizing, just because one office is efficient does not mean all
are.

FWIW,
-John

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> On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 08:53:30PM -0800, J. Forster wrote:
>> One can only wish those who spend our (taxpayer) money even knew the
>> meaning of the word frugal.
>
> (written on break)
>
> I take that personally.
>
> I'm a gummint employee; I do computer stuff at a large state gummint
> agency in the central MidWest. My employer consistently gets awards for
> best cost-benefit ratio on projects, best stretch of asphalt or concrete
> road in a particular year, and so on. My division was being considered
> for outsourcing to EDS, IBM, and several other large outsourcers. They
> came in, and each decided that we were doing things more efficiently,
> with better cost-benefit ratio, and with overall lower costs than they
> could. Several other agencies had their computer operations outsourced.
>
> We _still_ run our own, and we're damn frugal about it.
>
> Morals to the story:
>
> 1)    Don't tar everyone with the same brush; and
> 2)    Mind who you slander; you and he may be subscribed to the same
>       list.
>
> --
> Mike Andrews, W5EGO
> mikea at mikea.ath.cx
> Tired old sysadmin
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