Metres & Mitres
Mar. 21st, 2013 11:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
waitingmanWafflers Committee meeting tonight, so off to the wilds of the upper North Shore we went... Me to stand-in as Secretary & notes-taker, the Loved One to play card games with the Chairman's wife & son, before the two groups united over cheese, crackers & port... & profiteroles
A busy day at work again. I've only been doing the job for three & a bit weeks, but... & I suppose it shouldn't surprise me, having been in Sales for most of my working life... but it does surprise me how people can take a pretty straightforward sales quotation for goods & services & want to make it more complicated by asking for different breakdowns of price & measurement which ultimately don't affect the overall cost. Instead of one figure that encompasses the whole project, you now have several different figures, based on different interpretations which all add up to the original single sum. And it's not like I'm dealing with whole committees here... or large-scale projects like corporate offices, or multi-storey buildings. It's a couple of rooms in a house or apartment!! And yet people seem to think that by shuffling & juggling numbers, they'll somehow land in a different (read 'Cheaper') order
It would appear that the example set by our current Federal Government with its twisting & crunching of numbers to no real effect is having repercussions...
A busy day at work again. I've only been doing the job for three & a bit weeks, but... & I suppose it shouldn't surprise me, having been in Sales for most of my working life... but it does surprise me how people can take a pretty straightforward sales quotation for goods & services & want to make it more complicated by asking for different breakdowns of price & measurement which ultimately don't affect the overall cost. Instead of one figure that encompasses the whole project, you now have several different figures, based on different interpretations which all add up to the original single sum. And it's not like I'm dealing with whole committees here... or large-scale projects like corporate offices, or multi-storey buildings. It's a couple of rooms in a house or apartment!! And yet people seem to think that by shuffling & juggling numbers, they'll somehow land in a different (read 'Cheaper') order
It would appear that the example set by our current Federal Government with its twisting & crunching of numbers to no real effect is having repercussions...
