Might as well rant while I'm here on the subject.
I run a charity (yes, I'm a little Saint) and you would not believe the money wasted. We rely on donations and a Council grant. The Council have reduced our grant and now have decided we should pay rates on our buildings (which are owned by the Council and rented to us on a peppercorn basis). So they give us a grant then ask for £2k of it back right away. This involves accountants, paperwork, meetings, all of which I'm sure add up to over the £2k in the first place on both sides.
/rant over.
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TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Sat 17 Nov 2012, 14:34,
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Our journal binding budget has been reduced to practically nothing
other than our own publications and the Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine. A tradition of binding and thus protection for academic publications going back to 1826, and we're now storing publications loose in boxes.
Not good
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Jahled Three shades of black, Sat 17 Nov 2012, 15:06,
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