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Friday, February 11, 2005

Contracts

The Gorse Fox wonders...
  • Esteemed Client asks for simple piece of consultancy.
  • Tells her contracting department to issue a Request
  • Request arrives at Gorse Fox three weeks later
  • Ellen MacArthur sets sail from Falmouth
  • Gorse Fox develops ideas for response and visits Esteemed Client to confirm
  • Gorse Fox writes response and submits it to review process
  • Review process has changed, but nobody has been told, trolls will not review unless it goes through new process.
  • Submit document to new process requesting it is reviewed and released by certain date
  • Requests totally ignored
  • Christmas comes and goes
  • Ellen MacArthur is in the Southern Ocean making great progress
  • New Year starts
  • Petty changes requested by trolls are made
  • Document released to Esteemed Client
  • Esteemed Client's trolls take over.
  • Trolls return with 3 comments
  • Respond to 3 comments and submit to review process
  • Ellen MacArthur on the home stretch
  • Trolls argue amongst themselves, time goes by
  • Wrong Document gets released without covering notes
  • Wrong Document gets released with covering notes
  • Right document gets released with covering notes
  • Ellen MacArthur arrives back in Falmouth
  • Esteemed Clients trolls debate and question each other
  • Time goes by...
  • Still no signature

I wonder why Government costs so much? Could it be there is waste in Government? Could it be that they waste so much time trying to start any particular task that there is no way it can be completed by the required date? Could it be that they are unable to differentiate between that upon which they sit and the articulated joint in their limbs?

What me bitter?

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