Throwback Thursday!
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) spent a whopping $92.4 million over ten years to purchase, rent, install, and store office furniture ranging from fancy hickory chairs and a hexagonal wooden table, worth thousands of dollars each, to a simple drawer to store pencils that cost $813.57.
That was $6,000 in furniture for every one of the agency’s then-15,492 employees.
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