If Taylor worked at a multinational company today, he’d be flummoxed to find his principles metastasized into something truly inefficient. According to an employee at one federally owned corporation, toiletries have a six-month lead time. To get them, you must make a service request and get a Problem Evaluation Report. Then you need to get a work order, and a purchase order must be processed by the Procurement Engineering Group, who will then contact the vendor to ensure no changes have been made and the products meet regulatory requirements. And 180 days later, if you’re lucky, you’ll get
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