Easton Trevor A wrote:
>
> Reminds me of the tale about the engineer, the salesman and the purchasing
> agent.
>
> The engineer goes through life specializing, learning more and more about
> less and less until he knows everything about nothing.
> The salesman generalizes until he knows nothing about everything
> The purchasing agent through his dealings with each of these winds up
> knowing nothing about anything.
>
> With apologies to any of the above on the list.
> _______________________________________________
Ah Yes... purchasing agents. Reminds me of my Tool Truck days.
A Government organization needed five 1/2" drive impact guns for their
vehicle repair shop. I was invited to quote and offered a good price of
slightly over $200 per with a 2 year warrenty.
Some weeks later I was shown the actual purchase. A box of two hundred,
no name impact guns with an invoice price of $17.50 each. Of that 200
only 15 actually worked from the box and 3 weeks later there were none
operating. No warrenty!!!
Oh how our taxes are spent!!!!
John and Muddy
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