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CT: What's the deal with those guys in The Pit?

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Man, my brain is so slow in Spanish. It’s embarrassing how much we gringos typically suck at foreign languages.
 
birdman said:
Man, my brain is so slow in Spanish. It’s embarrassing how much we gringos typically suck at foreign languages.
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If I speak Spanish I’ll be able to pick up Portuguese with no problem next week, right?
 
We have Edison Bulbs and pineapple bookends. But that’s about it. And the Edison Bulbs were here when we moved in.
 
YoungBuck95 said:
We actually just want projects in order to increase our office budget so we can keep buying more snacks
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You joke, but when you dont spend your whole budget, it usually ends up getting cut, so at the end of the fiscal year, thats when government offices start buying all new office furniture and computers and well ya snacks.
 
TimmyClutch said:
You joke, but when you dont spend your whole budget, it usually ends up getting cut, so at the end of the fiscal year, thats when government offices start buying all new office furniture and computers and well ya snacks.
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That’s actually what we’re trying to do now. They told me to get whatever I want for my home office
 
Meanwhile, I found out in an exec meeting today that we are on a hiring freeze, travel freeze, team building spending freeze, merit increase freeze, and our president (awesome woman) has aggressive breast cancer. Lovely day.
 
TimmyClutch said:
You joke, but when you dont spend your whole budget, it usually ends up getting cut, so at the end of the fiscal year, thats when government offices start buying all new office furniture and computers and well ya snacks.
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The father of the girl I dated in college worked for the VA and every year he got either new computer equipment or new office furniture to eat up the budget.

My wife has told me about rooms at CDC with Aeron chairs that have never been used.

When I worked for the moving company we did a lot of government office moves and would hold items in storage for the GSA until they could be auctioned. We had probably 50 flat screen TVs still in boxes back when they cost about $1200 a pop. We had units and units of furniture that would air for years.
 
It’s just a bad system that promotes spending just to guarantee the same amount the next year. Seems like any unused funds could go into a reserve for bigger ticket items and then use a 5 year average of spending to set the budget.
 
Your mommy and daddy give you 10 dollars to open up a lemonade stand. So you go out and you buy cups and you buy lemons and you buy sugar. And now you find out that it only costs you nine dollars. So you can give that dollar back to mommy and daddy, but guess what? Next summer...
 
DeaconCav06 said:
It’s just a bad system that promotes spending just to guarantee the same amount the next year. Seems like any unused funds could go into a reserve for bigger ticket items and then use a 5 year average of spending to set the budget.
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not wrong but it's not like private companies don't spend silly amounts on similar things
 
mako1331 said:
Your mommy and daddy give you 10 dollars to open up a lemonade stand. So you go out and you buy cups and you buy lemons and you buy sugar. And now you find out that it only costs you nine dollars. So you can give that dollar back to mommy and daddy, but guess what? Next summer...
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man we never used real lemons

frozen concentrate all day
 
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