@1979Engineer
So BA, I know you monitor this forum closely, before you hang an engineer or pilot out to dry (excuse the pun!) just remember the management decisions back in the 1987, and all the money you saved!
I was that angry young man in 1987 telling you what a bad decision it was.
You know who you are...
Well 1979 - an accountant will do just that. 26 years the cost of employing 7 or 8 engineers (full benefits etc which is around 3 times basic salary) - vs cost of this incident. The decision to stop engineers doing PDI was correct from their purely financial point of view.
Experts here - there are several saying that this was a 'minor' event will be the ones listened to by the suited accountant.
I have had just this type of argument in the past - the only time you will win is if you tell them to take responsibility as despite their name accountants never want to be account
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