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    waste of money

    what a waste: http://www.contractoruk.com/news/003297.html
    "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark Twain

    #2
    Originally posted by scooterscot
    what a waste

    Let me guess. Ian Dury & The Blockheads, the song reached reached No. 9 in the charts in 1978?

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      #3
      What about Barry White? Oh, that's waist.

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        #4
        No, def waste these days
        The court heard Darren Upton had written a letter to Judge Sally Cahill QC saying he wasn’t “a typical inmate of prison”.

        But the judge said: “That simply demonstrates your arrogance continues. You are typical. Inmates of prison are people who are dishonest. You are a thoroughly dishonestly man motivated by your own selfish greed.”

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          #5
          "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark Twain

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            #6
            "The department now wants its own staff to develop their skills by outward secondment work alongside the IT contractor."

            Great. Why should the taxpayer spend £600/week on Joe Taxman of the Inland Revenue when it could be spending £1600/day on Joe Taxman of Cap Gemini?

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              #7
              Originally posted by thunderlizard
              "The department now wants its own staff to develop their skills by outward secondment work alongside the IT contractor."
              Outstanding, laugh of the day!

              Can you imagine the mirth engendered watching your average civil servant trying to do this?
              Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
              threadeds website, and here's my blog.

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                #8
                I say nuke the entire site from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.
                "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark Twain

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                  #9
                  i worked on that transition to Aspire from DD to phase 3!

                  good doss, 18mths away from home, nice bonus!

                  It was always going to cost more than budgeted, in factm we never really had a budget! it was all a case of jsut get it done.
                  I didn't say it was your ******* fault, I said I was blaming you!

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by scooby
                    good doss, 18mths away from home, nice bonus!

                    It was always going to cost more than budgeted, in factm we never really had a budget! it was all a case of jsut get it done.
                    You see this is precisely what hacks me off. I mean, good luck to scooby for doing well, but in general most govt projects are a "good doss" because they are poorly spec'd (mucho changes = £££££ to the contractor) and poorly performance managed (££££££s wasted, contractor breathes sigh of relief).

                    If this govt would spend as much time getting the basics right with its large projects as the HMRC does in pursuing stuff like Arctic, it might actually save a few ££££s. And who knows, it might then even relax its tax agenda (stupid thought, eh?).
                    "My God, it's huge!!"

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