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Jun 17, 2013 | 3:02 pm

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Originally Posted by lhrsfo

I should imagine that BAE has figured out that, on most days, at least x people need to travel between the two offices. They have probably figured out that it's cheaper providing x seats (or slightly fewer than x seats) and using public transport for the numbers above x on that particular day.

[cynical capitalist]
BAe is an ex-public sector outfit. We have a "wonderful" scheme in the UK called TUPE which probably requires the old BAe guard to have someone wipe their arse with warmed, quilted Andrex, never mind take a train somewhere. I still fail to believe - having worked for big companies split across sites - that having private planes to shuttle middle managers around en masse is a necessity when in the real world we work effectively with a telephone.
[/cynical capitalist]

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