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Old 05-24-2017, 11:23 AM
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Originally Posted by donquixote99 View Post
Larger private organizations are also inherently wasteful. For example, I know a mega-corporation that paid $4000 to put a new transmission in an old beat-up van worth about $1000 when the transmission worked.

Same outfit spent at least $200K setting up a mechanized facility to load retail containers from bulk, then abandoned the operation because there was no money to fix a compressor.
No, large private organizations are not inherently wasteful. Some large private and public organizations are highly efficient. Just because you can site one organization that appears wasteful cannot be a blanket indictment on all private or public companies.
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