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    What a rip-off!

    I've just opened my Amazon package.

    Now I've bought some expensive books in my time but this beats them

    I bought a 'book' called 'Manage Your Business Processes Using the Excellence Model' by the British Quality Foundation. It cost £12.60.

    Only it's not a book, it's a booklet containing a grand total of 27 pages.

    They saw me coming...

    "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
    - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

    #2
    You made a mistake by buying a 'management' book. They are generally beyond the ken.

    What you want to spend you money on is something like An Atlas of Functions Just open it anywhere and be taken aback by the breath taking beauty of a cubic.
    Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
    threadeds website, and here's my blog.

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      #3
      Shocker but you should be writing this stuff, not buying it.
      +50 Xeno Geek Points
      Come back Toolpusher, scotspine, Voodooflux. Pogle
      As for the rest of you - DILLIGAF

      Purveyor of fine quality smut since 2005

      CUK Olympic University Challenge Champions 2010/2012

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        #4
        When I was a student in the late 80s, one of our course books cost £35 for 60 pages. The copy in the library got copied a few times...
        Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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          #5
          A classic scam in the 80's was to put an advertisement in the back of a magazine offering to sell the secrets of how to make easy money, sit back and watch it roll in.

          Intrigued. I bought one.

          I got two pieces of printed A4 in a booklet form, which explained how to place an advert in a magazine and do the same.
          What happens in General, stays in General.
          You know what they say about assumptions!

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            #6
            Originally posted by cojak View Post
            I've just opened my Amazon package.

            Now I've bought some expensive books in my time but this beats them

            I bought a 'book' called 'Manage Your Business Processes Using the Excellence Model' by the British Quality Foundation. It cost £12.60.

            Only it's not a book, it's a booklet containing a grand total of 27 pages.

            They saw me coming...

            I wish my ITIL book was only 27 pages.
            Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave Johnson

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