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[[File:BCM.jpg|450px|thumb|center|The [[BCM]] facility, ready to rock in Aldershot, yesterday]]
{{image|BCM|jpg|The [[BCM]] facility, ready to rock in Aldershot, yesterday.}}
}}Until [[coronavirus]] came along, [[business continuity management]] executives were an embittered, disregarded, disenfranchised, but yet strangely [[redundancy]]-proof contingent, made to live out their days like ascetics in an enormous, draughty warehouse in Aldershot, with a curiously limited number of parking spaces and only one establishment selling “edible” food within realistic walking distance of of the facility, being the sole franchisee of ''Chester the Chicky Chick’s Charcoal Chicken'' “chain” of “family restaurants”.  
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A regulator-mandated hostage to fortune. A warehouse somewhere in the boondocks to which everyone is meant to relocate should some catastrophic event knock the main office out of action. [[BCM]] facilities were maintained at great expense, annually practiced on, but never used in anger until the COVID 19 pandemic, at which point they proved as useful as a chocolate teapot. Who would have guessed?
 
Until [[coronavirus]] came along, [[business continuity management]] executives were an embittered, disregarded, disenfranchised, but yet strangely [[redundancy]]-proof contingent, made to live out their days like ascetics in an enormous, draughty warehouse in Aldershot, with a curiously limited number of parking spaces and only one establishment selling “edible” food within realistic walking distance of of the facility, being the sole franchisee of ''Chester the Chicky Chick’s Charcoal Chicken'' “chain” of “family restaurants”.  


Now, [[every dog has its day]], and boy-oh-boy, [[coronavirus]] should have been theirs.
Now, [[every dog has its day]], and boy-oh-boy, [[coronavirus]] should have been theirs.