"End of the Year Party"Lori will appreciate this story. The move to an online payment system in our department meant the elimination of petty cash, which meant that paying for our end-of-the-year party for our graduating seniors would be...well...challenging. In the end, we succeeded in getting food for our party, but we were forced to go through university catering, which charged an arm and a leg for a plate of potato chips and a few peanuts. The resulting spread was laughable, considering the amount of money we spent (even though it would have been cheaper to use cash and just go and buy the stuff ourselves)...so our secretary attempted to supplement our salty snacks by dividing up a few muffins she had left over from lunch. But since the party was for 30 people, we had to divide them up a bit.
Just another example of bureaucracy in the workplace...
I do wonder how soon before I experience such bureaucracy in my wonderful new job =)
ReplyDeleteOh, hold onto those early days! I remember when I first started this job, and would walk to work with a smile on my face every day....and now it's 2.5 years later and I am already jaded....well, not totally jaded, but things like this do get to me. Who knows, maybe you will have landed the PERFECT job, without any of that crap!!! Here's hoping!!!
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