This is where the money goes...
Ever wondered how the management of a country spend's its money? The money deducted through inland revenue, from the pockets of the already very deflated pockets of our pathetic countrymen. Here's a little insight to how it goes about:
Task Description:
The objective of the assignment is to prepare a letter to be sent to several foreign delegates who will be visiting our country to give some speech at some conference. The letter is to be signed by a certain high ranking civil servant.
Resources Employed:
01 x Manager - Monthly Pay of SGD 8000 ++
01 x Executive - Monthly Pay of SGD 2300++
01 x Office Assistant - Monthly Pay of SGD 400++
Work Process:
The letter is drafted by the executive and handed to the manager for further editing. The office assistant runs around to get it printed and despacthed to the office of the required signatory.
The letter bounces back after some comments from the signatory's assistant. Further amendments are made and another copy is produced and sent to the signatory himself to be vetted.
The letter comes back with the amendments, mainly unimportant phrase changes, made primarily to make it seem as if the high ranking signatory had some really valuable input to make.
The amendments are made and the "final" copy is sent to the office for signing. The signatory feels a sudden surge of ideas, and decides to change some commas to full stops. The letter bounces back again with blotches of unsightly red ink.
The manager and executive rush to produce another letter, so that the signatory could sign it before his flight to some country. The leeter is completed, but they realise the signatory has already departed from the office to report sick!
The manager then resorts to driving down to the airport, to wait for several hours before the final-final copy gets signed.
Cost Breakdown:
3 days of remuneration for the workers:
8000 x 3/22 = 1091
2300 x 3/22 = 314
400 x 3/22 = 55
A4 paper expended:
2 copies of 16 pages = 0.96 (assuming each pieces of paper cost 3 cents)
Special Paper expended:
2 copies of 16 pages = 7.04 (each pieces costs 22 cents)
Transport claims to and fro airport:
40 bucks worth...
TOTAL COST OF FINISHING A LETTER = SGD 1468.00 !!!!
Mind you, I can get a Desktop with that money.
