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From: Dave.Tanner@p0.f210.n273.z1.fidonet.org (Dave Tanner)
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Subject: Re: Why Things Are The Way They ARe
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Date: 19 Apr 91 20:21:45 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

I have to agree with your comments about the type of people that
seemingly make up the majority of persons working in the state
agencies.  At present I am working through a situation where the
counselor is more interested in buying everything at one place
regardless of price than buying individual items from different
places at cheaper prices.  I have tried to show how the agency
could save over a thousand dollars or more by splitting up the
purchase and going for the cheapest prices regardless of the fact
that more orders would have to be generated.  But it has been of no
use.  So, what do you do?  I realize that a counselor is busy, but
with the state of finances in state agencies as bad as it is right
now you would think that they would want to save every dollar that
they could.

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