More company daftness

One other thing I forgot to mention from yesterday's boring presentation was that we are owed something in the region of £750k.

In order to get our hands on this, we need to hire two experienced debt collectors to chase up these payments.

But the parent company won't allow it. They say we are not allowed to increase our headcount (beyond the sales team, at least), and therefore won't authorise the hiring of two people. These people would be temporary staff anyway, and - crucially - would pay for themselves many times over.

Spending, say £70k a year on a couple of staff is not a problem if they are going to bring in £500k in otherwise lost money.

So why not allow it? It makes no sense. The only thing I can remotely think of is that parent company is normally used to dealing with goverments who just pay their invoices, rather than lots of small-medium size companies who often don't. Either that, or it's because they're French and jealous that we turned them down...

I'm thinking that the time is become more and more ripe for a move away.

Does anybody need a talented(?) SQL developer, with plenty of VB experience, some Coldfusion and some Java? Also with plenty of experience in GPS and telematics systems, based in the Surrey area?

If you do - give me a shout...