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Budgets, budgets everywhere
Mar. 27th, 2014 08:54 amYet very little makes sense.
So, at work we are at the start of the budget process. Last year we finished with about version 16. It would be nice not to have to produce that many this year. My role is to gather together all the information, consider the current year's figures and then make an educated guess as to what next year will be like. My boss gets to add in all the arbitary figures - like how much we can spend on advertising and whether we're upgrading the computer systems - and then approve it, ready for the trustees.
All of which would be fine, if I had a crystal ball. When I ask my colleague how much we will be needing bank staff in three months time, she looks at me as if to say that she doesn't know what bank staff we'll need next week. Have a staff member go sick and we need to replace them - we provide one to one support at times, if I go sick things wait till I come back, but you can't do that when caring for a resident. Or one of the residents has a hospital appointment (and we don't get much notice) so someone has to take them and therefore cover is needed for what they are timetabled to do.
But I digress. Tuesday afternoon I was glaring at electricity figures when one of the support workers came to see me. There was a mouse in a bucket in the laundry. Okay I said, and having established the mouse was still alive suggested she let it out somewhere away from the cat. She went off and returned fifteen minutes later with the bucket and the tiny mouse eating some biscuit crumbs she'd provided for it.
I am sure there will be budget updates as I go along, I doubt we will hear more of the mouse.
So, at work we are at the start of the budget process. Last year we finished with about version 16. It would be nice not to have to produce that many this year. My role is to gather together all the information, consider the current year's figures and then make an educated guess as to what next year will be like. My boss gets to add in all the arbitary figures - like how much we can spend on advertising and whether we're upgrading the computer systems - and then approve it, ready for the trustees.
All of which would be fine, if I had a crystal ball. When I ask my colleague how much we will be needing bank staff in three months time, she looks at me as if to say that she doesn't know what bank staff we'll need next week. Have a staff member go sick and we need to replace them - we provide one to one support at times, if I go sick things wait till I come back, but you can't do that when caring for a resident. Or one of the residents has a hospital appointment (and we don't get much notice) so someone has to take them and therefore cover is needed for what they are timetabled to do.
But I digress. Tuesday afternoon I was glaring at electricity figures when one of the support workers came to see me. There was a mouse in a bucket in the laundry. Okay I said, and having established the mouse was still alive suggested she let it out somewhere away from the cat. She went off and returned fifteen minutes later with the bucket and the tiny mouse eating some biscuit crumbs she'd provided for it.
I am sure there will be budget updates as I go along, I doubt we will hear more of the mouse.
