Invisible wrote:

> So... uh... WTF? It's a mad, mad world...

Woah - stop the press! Apparently we have *finally* sold site #5!

We purchased site #5 about 7 years ago. Nobody knows why we purchased 
it. It has never made a profit since we bought it. It's a building 
that's about 8x bigger than we need.

Initially we used one floor ourselves and rented the other floors out to 
other companies. After a few years this was deemed too profitable, so we 
sold the building to somebody else and then rented it. (Yes, that's 
correct. We had money coming in, so we changed it to having money going 
out. WTF?)

Site #5 operates in a closely-related but none the less seperate 
business area. (I.e., it doesn't so what all the other sites do and what 
the company is "expert in".) Most of the spiralling losses the company 
has made over the last few years are completely due to this one site. 
(The other sites all either break even or make a modest profit, and then 
this one site makes a several-million-dollar loss which kinda cancels 
everything else out.)

Rather than find some new, even less effecient way to run site #5, it 
seems we just sold it. Like, a few days ago.

I am astounded. The company actually did something right. Wow.

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