[Lurker]

My town is building a new Village Hall/PD this year. They just released a bid for a new telephone system. Since I'm in the business I grabbed a copy of it. They want 225 Cisco Color Touch Screen desk telephones at a list price of just about $600 bucks a piece. Now my company sells telephone systems, and we have an equivalent device that's a lot cheaper. The President of my company doesn't even have one on his desk. That tells you something right there.

I've been chewing on the Mayor all week about this idiot IT Director. I ran the list prices on the system he wants and it comes to just a hair under $1,000,000.00. That's for a Village of 22,000 people.

I'm freaking livid.

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You have a right to be livid and if the news got to the 22,000 - you would have some great company. I’d like to hear the ending of this one!