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Originally Posted by The Reaper
Poor budgeting by the leadership.
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You are spot on. Unfortunately my Agency has no leadership just managers and that is a joke also. I have no idea how we do anything.
I have been trying to get them to give me a fiscal line for the whole year so I can manage it throughout the whole year for the last 10 yrs. No one will do it. But for the last 60 days I can just order anything and I mean anything. I have learned to have my units list ready with vendors and I hit them hard the first few weeks to stock up for the coming FY. I then have to watch the fiscal process until it is ordered so they do not wind up in the fiscal black hole. Thank god our Fiscal chief is a retired USN Chief. I have developed that asset and we work the system for what indeed and my upper management have never caught on. You have to do what you have to do.
Now we are receiving equipment and supplies and now I have my guys stashing it for the next FY. The only problem is people that do not plan have tried to hit us up for expendables and I as the boss have to be the bad guy. As most know that is not hard. Piss poor prior planning does not constitute an emergency on my part. They really hate it when I tell them that.