Budget season

This morning I learned that our cluster has not yet met the June collection budget of Php 27 million and we are short of Php 2 million. We have until today to meet the collection budget. I learned that if our cluster did not meet the budget, the cluster's promotion, bonus and hiring of new staffs might be affected. What's worse is that Ms. Sarah, our secretary is absent today to help us follow up on client collections. Last night I was clueless about her post in the facebook saying.."bakit ako ang sinisisi sa mga bagay na di ko naman kasalanan..I'm starting to hate my job.." now the reason behind her post came into light. She was the one being blamed for not hitting the target budget...

So to prevent the shortfall in budget, we will beg from other clusters who have already exceeded their budget to transfer some of their collections to close the cluster's deficit like some sort of.."can we borrow Php 2million and we will pay you next month". Ridiculous isn't it?

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A day before yesterday, Gary my gym trainor has requested me to renew my personal training sessions for another month even though we have not yet consumed the 40 sessions. He says he is short of his budget this month and asks if I could help him meet his target by paying the renewal session in advance. Ridiculous isn't it?

Also that day, I tagged along Reycres, my perky roomate to the gym, to join in. However, unfortunately, he does not have a credit card so he decided to postpone his membership. Because Dez, the marketing consulatnt of Fitness first, is desperate to hit her "new members" budget, Dez won't allow Reycres to postpone his memebership and instead, Dez called up my friend Tin, also a member of the fitness club, to borrow Tin's credit card so that Reycres can use it for him to be able to join. Ridiculous isn't it?

I conclude that people can really do ridiculous things to meet their budgets.

Welcome to the corporate world.