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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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