Sunday, November 1, 2020

Finance Officer Cuts Budget, Employees Donate It All to Food Bank


Chad decided to make all the employees situation inconvenient in order to try and save some money, but he ended up costing more money for the company in the end. The employees spoke their mind through charity. For another weird budget story, here's a Karen who used up her entire budget on ugly PowerPoints.

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Text - Posted by u/alxwak 1 day ago * O 11 2710 34 8 Change our expenditure accounts? The food bank will have a feast! oc L This happened about 10 years ago, when I worked for a company doing community nursing. We were provided with company cars and a prepaid card for expenditure (fuel and food). The card had a limit of 400 euros per week, the card resetting to the 400 limit every Monday morning. Despite the 400 euros limit, the usual amount any of us spent each week was around 150 to 200 euros,

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Text - Enter Chad. He was the the financial officer and had some pretty "unique" ideas about changing the finances of the company. One of the ideas he instituted was a change to our prepaid cards. He dropped the limit to 50 euros a day, with the card resetting every day. As you can understand, this was a problem, especially if you consider that a full tank costed 55 euros minimum. If you used the card for fuel, then the rest was paid out of pocket. We couldn't be reimbursed for the money, becaus

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Text - Initially, most coworkers were spending 30 euros on fuel and refueled two or three times a week. But not me. While my malicious compliance tendencies were natural, during my Navy service were honed to perfection by a couple of Master Chiefs. So, enter Malicious Compliance. I decided to spent each day 20 euros for fuel (somedays less), pay for my own coffee out of pocket and spend the rest at lunch. I used to patron a grill and bbq place that had a catering side. They also volunteered for

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Text - I started rising at least 90 euros a week for the food bank. I hit the limit every day, costing the company 250 euros a week (from 150). Chad was furious. He was trying to save money and I was costing him more. He asked me to explain my expenses. Food and fuel. He asked for receipts. I provided them (the receipt said food, nothing else). He finally said I should eat cheaper. I told him the company couldn't force not to eat whatever I wanted. After that meeting, a couple of coworkers saw m

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Text - The Aftermath: This went on for two months. Chad was livid, because now he was loosing even more money. The solution came unexpectedly. Unbeknownst to all of us, the owner the company was a major contributor to the food bank. He knew about the restaurant helping out and had seen the richer buffets. He asked the owner of the restaurant about and he said a few nurses had started coming, raising the tab (at that point 600 euros minimum). The owner put two and two together.

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Text - I was called in for a meeting with the owner. I was anxious, because I didn't know what it was about. When I got there, Chad was there also. During the meeting, Chad explained how he was losing money, but he couldn't do anything about it. I explained what our grievance was and how we took advantage of it. Chad replied we shouldn't game the system for something SO stupid as a food bank. The owner stopped the meeting right there. He reinstated the old system for expenditure. He reprimanded

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Text - The final result was getting our old system back (which we didn't abuse), a weekly donation to the food bank and a major Easter Sunday BBQ for the food bank sponsored by the company. Chad lasted only another three months, because his penny saving ways dropped the quality of care we could provide. I stayed with the company until it was sold to new owners who were more like Chad. But that's a story for another subreddit.

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