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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 4 points 7 months ago

There's a monumental amount of waste in there. I've seen a department order a truckload of equipment from compUSA, a reputable vendor, and it shows up with open brown cardboard boxes of used equipment. Staff SGT rubber-stamped it. Somebody made bank. Shit like that was ALWAYS going down.