Efficiency

I work for the federal government.

Today, we had a call from one of our satellite employees.  It seems that when we shipped her a laptop last week we forgot to include the power cord (stuff happens right?)

My boss asked me to grab her power cord and ship it down to her via UPS Next Day Air so that she could keep her project moving.  I arranged the shipment as directed.

Shipping a Dell laptop power cord overnight to FL via UPS costs the taxpayer $46.22.

According to my 30 seconds of web research - buying a new one at a local Best Buy or on-line would have cost as low as $25.88.

?-?-?

Oh - did I mention that we had a big meeting this morning about the new theme for our agency for the remainder of FY 2010...

...cost efficiency

Can't wait for healthcare reforms to kick in!