On the basis that they've gotten far enough to open a branch, I'm going to guess "no".

That's got to be the funniest thing I read all day, thank you Gaius.

We're often on opposite sites of various fences but with this one liner you've definitely made my day so thank you very much for that. :)

Private Eye also refer to outsourcing firm Capita as "Crapita", which is less funny but still makes me chuckle each time I see it

How in the world do companies like that stay in business being so incompetent? At some point, don't a series of epic disasters at least _begin_ to tarnish a reputation?

You could say the same about most government contractors. I suspect that there are a lot of kickbacks involved, because none of the projects I was ever involved in at government contracting firms ever went well -- ALL of them had a lot more people than necessary, and underutilized the best talent they had.

The one thing that they had in common with the commercial companies I worked for is that instead of jettisoning the least competent so that the rest of us could do our jobs, they promoted those folks and put them in charge.

If the integrity of these companies and their clients wasn't so unquestionable, I might even suspect that the answer was "by corruption and bribes".