… and central procurement skim volume rebates.
Hopefully they aren’t a profit centre !!
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I had that with some X25 circuits into a regional office. Stuff just got buried on the monthly BT OneBill CD which kept just getting paid every month via Direct Debit. No-one understood it from a Financial Control POV. It was just a (largely) fixed cost of doing business.
A review of it - using the analysis software BT provided with it - shaved £150k annually off the telecoms bill. Unused circuits, unused lines, call analysis and some arm twisting on call behaviours.
“The payroll swelled for these companies during the pandemic. In the case of Accenture, for example, it has grown staff numbers by 30 percent since the start of June 2021, adding some 170,000 people.”
This feel like horrible mismanagement. A 30% uptick in staff in less that 2 years. What are they smoking in the C-Suite.
Sounds like a ton of modern laptops, MacBooks.
Just buy a cheap USB C hub, preferable one that can do Power Pass-Thru, and perhaps give you a 3rd display option - I’m sure Lenovo rather flog you a ThinkPad Travel Port Expander at £10, where and Anker USB C hub at £20 will do.
But you do have several thousand miles of sea to the west of Newquay. It’s called the Atlantic Ocean.
Thoughts
- Branson should put some more money into this, or be better (like Musk) at snagging State subsidies/loans
- Employees being ‘furloughed’ (without pay) is a worrying post-pandemic Americanisation of this. Back to point 1, Branson needs to put his hands in his pockets. His very deep pockets.
Could they procure a standard fit ERP Solution that works acress Government, Education and key partners……. that’s not under spec, not over budget .. and just works ????
You know … something that is “Not Shit”.
(What rebate do CCS get ?? Hoping it’s not run as a ‘profit centre’. Ye Olde Granada Purchasing … I’m looking at you !! ).
Ultimately China’s home-grown semi-conductor capability will be an existential threat in 20 years or so. This sort of stupidity generates that - whilst a country has capability - hell even North Korea has ICBM’s when the effort/resources are provided.
Just look at China and Solar PeV, batteries, EV’s etc ….
**Note, please do not sent this wiki link to Brexiteer’s !!! !!! That’s just a different ballpark of stupidity.** ;-)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinorwig_Power_Station
Try some of this……At grid scale, and noted its Central Electricity Generating Board heritage.
Noted similar plans for Exmoor not progressed. Repeat this 50 times over across suitable areas in Scotland , Wakes, England, NI.
You’d also be stewarding additional water reserve capacity too. Killing 2 birds with 1 stone. Now there is a thought.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/mar/09/national-grid-pays-high-price-for-gas-generated-power-during-uk-cold-snap
Noted some mention here of “Dinorwig, a vast, pumped hydroelectric power plant in north Wales nicknamed “Electric Mountain”, which is the fastest source of electricity in the UK.”
Noted National Grid being held to ransom by gas-power station operators… who now seem am to be owned by poachers… when people are belly-aching about the cost of Hinckley Point etc …
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/mar/09/national-grid-pays-high-price-for-gas-generated-power-during-uk-cold-snap
Theresa May
Amber Rudd
Sajid Javid
Priti Patel
Suella Braverman
Grant Shapps
Suella Braverman
.. are the list of Tory Home Secretarie, who ultimately lead this project.
I don’t see any of Suella Braverman’s - or predecessor’s - rabid anti-migrant/anti-Shamina Begum rhetoric allowing any time to be spent on this.
Let’s call it what but was .. and remains today. Proroguing Parliament, braking the law, breaking international treaties etc .. spot on the money.
https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/misconduct-public-office
Furriners, Shamina Begum, Migrants, NI Protocol, EU Retained Law Bill, Environmental Pollution (looking at you water companies), ClimTe Chances obligations, Covid Fast Lane, Lobbying, Palantir in the NHS ……
Seems odd that the German Govt has left it so long and - as the article hints - wants to rip and replace without compensation.
Meanwhile .. little mention of other potential common Chinese stuff - most electronics, Lenovo Laptop,
Strange how they’ll spaff billions to build a chip plant to fuxk China over…, but not want to fund rip and replace in critical 5G network.
ChatGPT content at Retch Media will actually be a significant improvement from the normal hysterical Beast from the East, new McDonalds/Tim Hortons opening, advertiriala masauerading as news and national news stories piped into local media they own … like the formerly respected Coventry Telegraph..
The spelling and grammar should improve too.
A Combi Micro-oven/grill has largely replaced these standalone units…. Which are more commonly today being replaced by the microwave-less ‘air fryer’.
A toaster is for toasting bread, vertically. There is no such thing as a toaster oven.
Toaster, counter-top grill (broiler), oven or air-fryer.