Oh, you have no idea what sort of hypothetical oddities you'll find in an average departmental budget. It's corruption I'm looking for, but on many occasions I've wandered down some enticing hole in the numbers only to find someone who was getting entirely legitimate expenses reimbursed under entirely the wrong budget.
Are you talking about the sort of scenario where there was extra money in one budget, so they pulled money out of it for something that should have gone in another column? Like when someone needs an assistant but there's no money left in the staffing budget so the assistant gets hired and the salary gets charged to the bit set aside for office supplies on the grounds that an 'assistant' is a type of 'supply' and everyone's just extra careful with their quills until the next fiscal year?
Everyone does that and it's really only a problem from my perspective because it wastes so much of my time when it LOOKS like the sort of thing I'm looking for (which is corruption, mostly -- bribery, people charging for unused veterinary supplies and pocketing the extra, that sort of thing.)
I'm confident your father wasn't pocketing the money because if he were, you'd never have mentioned it to me (surely!) Or if he was, you don't suspect him of it. So what's being charged to veterinary expenses at nearly every (possibly every) muggle camp in the Protectorate?
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Date: 2013-11-20 03:15 am (UTC)Are you talking about the sort of scenario where there was extra money in one budget, so they pulled money out of it for something that should have gone in another column? Like when someone needs an assistant but there's no money left in the staffing budget so the assistant gets hired and the salary gets charged to the bit set aside for office supplies on the grounds that an 'assistant' is a type of 'supply' and everyone's just extra careful with their quills until the next fiscal year?
Everyone does that and it's really only a problem from my perspective because it wastes so much of my time when it LOOKS like the sort of thing I'm looking for (which is corruption, mostly -- bribery, people charging for unused veterinary supplies and pocketing the extra, that sort of thing.)
I'm confident your father wasn't pocketing the money because if he were, you'd never have mentioned it to me (surely!) Or if he was, you don't suspect him of it. So what's being charged to veterinary expenses at nearly every (possibly every) muggle camp in the Protectorate?