On 3 Oct 2008 07:25:22 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John McKown) wrote: >Believe it or not, I was at a place which was told to cut their budget by >10%. They came up with a plan to cut it 50%! They had two production >machines. The cut was to eliminate one machine and its costs along with its >users. Next year the mandate was to cut the budget by 10% without impacting >any services to any users.
That type of management works quite well at persuading people to figure out how to never cut more than required, saving some to look better next year. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
