Bossman sent a woman to the hardware store. I'll be impressed if anything positive should come from this.

Last time four women spent an entire day trying to purchase and assemble an ikea set of drawers. I said to bossman "that's a thousand dollar set of drawers" and he turned to me sagely and said "they achieved something".
It only then dawned on me that payroll must be several million dollars, most of which was assumed to be a dead loss. An ikea set of draws is a depreciating asset.