You might remember my Yuletide Top Ten #2 in which I outlined my favourite company money squanderings of 2009. So it was with great pleasure on Friday that I watched 2010 pick up where 2009 left off.
It was another typical day at our London office, which despite only housing around 25 when it's a full house, seems to have a constant flow of builders/contractors/IT guys etc. servicing it.
Despite the company being in the hole for, literally, tens of millions of pounds, someone had deemed the installation of 2 steel posts in the carpark a necessity. Steel isn't cheap, nor are 2 tradesmen doing nearly a full day's work in central London. The posts were being installed under the guise of creating a clear area outside a (permanently locked) 'fire door.' So it was with great pleasure that whilst having a coffee and a fag with said workmen I garnered the information that they were in fact installing them to prevent our C.O.O. from bumping her BMW X5 into the building. The posts are painted bright yellow.
They seemed as amused as myself when I informed them that, having driven it on many an occasion, the dash has a full screen floorplan of the vehicle, and warning lights indicating any objects that come into its vicinity. So pleased was I at finding out the company had just pointlessly waxed another few grand, I gave them each a bag of goodies for their wives.
