OK Robert, I give up. Is it just me being paranoid, or are the odds increasingly being stacking up against us? Even I tend to "roll with the flow" these days. When the people we work for couldn't care less about cost effectiveness, never seem willing to support us when we try to be innovative, and even stop us from doing things that we've happily been doing for thirty-odd years, then perhaps it's time to call it a day.
With all the incompetence and massive waste that I see around me every day, the few pounds (dollars) that I may be able to save isn't going to make a great deal of difference in the grand scheme of things. I for one certainly don't make enough (money) to worry too much about it all now. But yes, there is a little bit of job-satisfaction still to be had, if you care to think in those terms (which I do). That's the only reason I bother with any of it all these days, in actual fact. Little victories here and there, carrying out the odd "nice fix", working on the occasional interesting bit of kit, being with good techs, and generally spreading "joy and goodwill" up on the wards. It's enough for me.
