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A Road Monitor Technician would have found it as fast -- assuming, of course, his position wasn't cut because the company hadn't met shareholder expectations for the past two quarters (30 percent margins aren't too much to ask for, are they?). I guess if there wasn't a Road Monitor Technician, the Manhole Utilization Specialist would have been right on it, even though she was busy doing the newly-laid-off Road Monitor Technician's job as well. But maybe she would have hesitated to dispatch a Manhole Reintegration Team right away, because the department had put out a call for a 17 percent cut in costs in all departments, and her last evaluation had been kind of a down one, because her manager had been annoyed that she had asked for an extra week of maternity leave because of complications after her scheduled C-section.
So at the end of the quarter the bean-counters note that costs are down across the company by 18 percent, which means the scheduled bonuses for officers can go through as planned -- as long as the scheduled service invoice increases are moved up by a quarter. If customers complain, well, the complaints can go in the same circular file that the complaints about the unfixed manhole cover go. Because really, what other company are motorists going to hire?
So, you know, private business could have handled it just as well -- or at least, you know, better for fewer people, anyway.
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