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Old Feb 21, 2011 | 6:49 pm
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PhlyingRPh
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Originally Posted by robert-b
What a waste of money..... A few hundred thousand dollars for a machine, 3 people to run it and we have a scanner that can't figure out that a penny and a dime add up to 11 cents, not a dangerous weapon.
I disagree. There's easily five people for each machine, and I'm pretty sure if you total up the hours housekeeping spends cleaning up the sticky stuff on the viewing room floor and replacing the Kleenex, you've now got 6 FTE's for each machine.
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