Mario Obejas wrote: >Alas, about 10 years after inception, some bean counter decided >that on some Excel spreadsheet we weren't profitable "enough" (yes, >despite some other product lines being perennial loss centers). The >product line was closed down, warranty work was transferred to >another location, and the facilities were eventually reconfigured >into indistinguishable cubes with offices for managers.
That reminds me of a story I heard decades ago. This page repeats the gist of the story while updating the numbers to seem more reasonable today. You appear to have been a victim of cost accounting. <http://www.mgsltns.com/costacct.htm> -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "The mind is a wonderful thing. It starts working the minute you're born and never stops until you get up to speak in public." -Roscoe Drummond _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
