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This is tangentially related... I work for a large telecommunications company. The job I do requires a large inventory of specialized and expensive tools. These tools have to be ordered through a nightmarishly complicated and confusing piece of poo poo interface working off of SAP software. I swear to god, I believe the system is so byzantine and offensively user-hostile so that most of the older employees will just get scared and never order anything again. I'm a self-loathing idiot so I just blindly plow through the poorly-written documentation and manage to figure out all the logistics and accounting lingo and place an order. For a screwdriver. Just a plain old #3 Phillips. It costs $35.00 and takes 4 weeks to arrive. By contrast I could have gone to Lowe's or Harbor Freight and purchased a screwdriver for $15.00 (or less at HF) WITH A LIFETIME WARRANTY and had it within 20 minutes. In following the company's ideal workflow for obtaining a plain-old stupid screwdriver I took 2 hours of self-training at the loaded labor rate of $75.00 per hour and an additional $35.00 for the tool for a grand total of $185.00. If I just went and got the goddamn thing retail I could have done it on a parts run or on my way into or out of work.
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