scott wrote:

> Actually the amount of profit the whole company makes has quite a small 
> impact on the budget my department gets.  What made a much bigger 
> difference was that we *lost* a key project, which meant we didn't have 
> to pay for a lot of stuff, which meant we had the money left over to buy 
> other things. And the way it works here is that any money you have left 
> over on March 31st gets taken away from you.  IOW because we sucked at 
> winning the project we were forced to spend a 5 digit sum of money on 
> other stuff (new laptops, TVs etc) - incentive or what!

Dude, that's *advanced*! :-D

But anyway, my point was, my employer has a fairly serious lack of cash 
right now. Apparently banks tend to not like lending money to companies 
that keep posting larger and larger losses. I can't imagine why...

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