And lo On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:41:40 -0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> did  
spake thusly:

> 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.

You don't work for the council do you? :-D

>>  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...

That's because they think they're the only ones who should get money for  
posting losses.

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Phil Cook

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