Darren New wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>> Personally, I have no idea what a "PO number" is.
> 
> This is actually useful to know if you're ever going to work for 
> yourself.

I'm not. (Obviously. My skills are in technology, not business.)

> It's a good thing to know, because if there's one thing I've learned 
> working as a small consultant to big companies is this: If you don't 
> have a PO# before you go to work, it will take you six months to get 
> paid, if ever. If you *do* have a PO#, you mail the bill to the 
> accounting department, and they pay it. If you *don't*, you mail the 
> bill to the guy who hired you, who sits on it because paying you isn't 
> his job, until you send it again, and again, and finally start tacking 
> on finance charges and CC'ing the accounting department, at which point 
> the accounting department goes "Finance charges??" and things start 
> moving again.

Hahahaha... PWNED!

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