"Neil Arlidge"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Brian J Goggin wrote:

>> Friday, ostensibly to the opening of Waterways Ireland's new offices,
>
>Hurumph!....have they spent the whole summer decking it out?
>I have warned the good folk on the IWAI list that WI will now behave just 
>like BW...we are all doomed...

The (still highly recommended) book "Parkinson's Law" contains several
essays in addition to the one about "Work expands so as to fill the
time available for its completion".  

One is about how the completion of a purpose-built HQ is a sure sign
that the organisation to occupy it is about to fail.  My experience
with corporate real estate suggests Mr Parkinson (*not* the same as
the TV interviewer) was surprisingly accurate.

Adrian
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Adrian Stott
07956-299966

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