Re: More Money for Alice to Darwin line

[phaedrus@ultra.net.au (darryl)]

Eddie Oliver <eoliver@efs.mq.edu.au> wrote:

>Maurie Daly wrote:
>> 
>> Im interested in peoples views in relation to the 7000 people allegedly needed
>> to build this project.
>> It seemed on face value a bit high to me.

>These days 7000 is probably an underestimate. However you could
>probably, with restraint, get by with 7000, made up of 1000 actual
>workers, 1500 managers to manage the workers, 2500 to manage the
>managers of the workers, 1900 to have managerial titles but not actually
>have anything to manage, and finally 100 executives each paid at least
>$500,000 per annum to stuff up the whole operation just in case the
>others have failed to do so. 

>Eddie Oliver

 I might apply for "Driver,Alice Sprongs" :-)
 Darryl.