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You soon learn at a big company that almost any expense is justifiable to the boss if it prevents his boss from asking inconvenient questions.


By coincidence, I have witnessed this just last night. No details will be provided to protect identity, I'll just say you probably heard of the company.

It's staggering.


What industry?


manufacturing.


You don’t happen to be the guy who overnighted a bunch of network cables for $5,000 because the boss had to have them overnighted and the company didn’t care what it cost I read about recently? lol


Oh for these silly escapades to only cost $5k.




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