Last Friday, the division bigwigs did their quarterly webcast to talk about our year-to-date performance (brought to us live from Massachusetts, or Texas, or wherever the division is headquartered, beats me). It was pretty snoozeworthy, as usual, except for one tidbit.
One of the speakers was trying to get more people to arrange their travel through the company Travel department website rather than through local travel agents, because travel agents typically charge $40 per transaction and our Travel department charges only $20, which represents, and I quote,
"A savings of 100%."
The really scary part? I'm pretty sure the person who pinched off that growler was the division's chief Controller.
This is the same guy who's calculating performance sharing bonuses, isn't it?