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In article <302@ulogic.UUCP> hartman@ulogic.UUCP (Richard M. Hartman) writes:
>>In other words, if I trade in my Sparc 2 for a Radio Shack TRS-80 (OBHack:
>>create X server for TRS-80), I'll get a pay raise?
>
>In some companies, yes.  Our company has frequently had to make decisions
>between new employees vs. new equipment.  Those people we didn't hire
>aren't making the money that we didn't pay them because we bought a SUN
>workstation.....

After a couple of iterations of this thread I did mention that my
concepts of budgets etc do not apply to all places; But still noone got
a pay cut to pay for the workstation :-)


>In other companies the people up top "from whom all
>money flows" will just pocket the difference as an increase in profit.
>It's not my fault if you work for a company like that :)

Not likely since our organization has lots of shareholders (GMHE on NYSE). 

>I have not been saying that if you don't spend it in place X it must show
>up in place Y, I (and others have been saying) if you spend it in place
>X you do not have the option to spend it in place Y.  Surely this is clear
>enough now that you don't have any grip left to play silly semantic games
>anymore?

Our difference is whether money from X can move from/to Y or not. That
is, whether money from, say, computing services can move to payroll. This
can be true in some cases (small companies likely) but unlikely in a
company the size of ours; That's reality, not semantics, I'm afraid. 

Spiros


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