@Terry 6
"My considerable experience of local authorities is that scrimping and saving is the norm.
There is waste an inefficiency, of course there is. But often that's the result of "savings"."
One of my first jobs as a field service contractor involved driving around the west of Scotland for three weeks installing CD-ROM drives in hundreds of newly-deployed PCs.
The genius who specced the PCs didn't include the drive in the bill of materials to save money. Another genius with seniority signed off on this spec without questioning whether the drive was actually needed. Turns out it was needed in the majority of cases...and I made a fortune on my mileage alone. That's just one example of many.
The senior guy was promoted to Director of IT, and the other guy was promoted into senior guy's position not long after. The Dilbert Principle in effect.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
