Budget Recovery

You're looking at a woman who doesn't balance her check book.....
That's right.....well, that's mostly right. I balance it twice a year by not spending a dime from the bank for three weeks, taking their balance and making what's left over go into a savings account. I simply spend until it makes me uncomfortable. LOL
Scary, eh?

Scarier STILL is the fact that my boss hands over a budget that's million of dollars to balance---to ME.
What WAS he thinking?!
I did tell him about my checkbook system.
He didn't seem to care.

He STILL doesn't seem to care.......well, leastwise he didn't SEEM to care until this week when I met with him and he said those two HORRIFIC words:

"BUDGET RECOVERY"

*shuddering*
Scares me to even type those words! LOL

It would seem that our little agency (not so little--but still.........) has let its outgo excede its income.
PROBLEM! (LOL......see, even *I* know that!)

Budget recovery.......every program gets to chip in to be the solution to some other unit's bad decision making.
You know--it's time for the 'all for one and one for all' theory........'cept I didn't create the problem and I'm still getting to say 'no' to somethings even though we're not the financial problem.

*scratching head*
I'll get it......really I will.
It's about the spirit of cooperation, right?
Common cause--everyone's a part of the solution, right?

*grumbling*
I didn't CREATE the problem, I'm not responsible FOR the problem and I sure as heck don't wanna be accountable to FIX the problem.
But I am.
*scratching head*

I don't get it.
I don't have to get it to do it, right?

I sure HOPE that's right--cuz I just spent HOURS on a spread sheet (and I don't DO spread sheets!!) going over numbers and making adjustments to a budget that I don't DO in the first place.
'Cept I DO do a budget and I don't know it.....until it's about someone else's budget?
I can get it--just gimme a bit of time to wrap my head around 'common cause, we're all in this together' theoretical crud........

Didn't anyone warn them that it's all about MEMEME? LOL