Managing cashflow
As revenues in our business have dropped, the reigns have been pulled in, staff let go and so on.

The latest focus, as of this week, is on cash spend. Ergo, expenses and travel.

Fine. I understand this. In a way I support it - exes can be fiddled after all so this was some type of costing karma coming in.

Until I was given this year's budget for me and the guy that works for me. Both of us are respnsible for about 1/4 of our businesses UK offices.

What they'd done is look at last year's expenses and then flattened the same level of money out evenly over a 12 month period.

Still, all fine by and large.

Except if you go over your budget then you can be taken into a disciplinary and get the sack. All entirely legal too apparently.

What they'd neglected to consider, moreover, was that last year the guy that works for me didn't start until June. Then he was deskbound for 4 months on a project. Now he is the process of launching the commercial side of the project which means he has to travel and introduce it, train people etc.

Our nearest office is 12 miles away; our furthest 110. So return journeys are between 24 or 220 miles.

Fuel allowance is around 12p per mile.

The budget?

£8 per month so... 66 miles.

So we're now in a position of either getting everyone (about 150 staff in total) to come to us for the training and use their department budgets up via multiple car journeys etc or he goes to them and faces a disciplinary for doing what we're employed to do.

Or we don't do it at all and therefore fail to make the company the revenues we expect from implementing our project.

Annoyed is not the word and I'll be having a stern word with our cheif exec next time he flies up for a meeting.
(Heyzeus, Sat 24 Jan 2009, 21:24, 5 replies)

can't you just write all the above in an email to your chief exec instead of on the QOTW
seems fairly clear that it's a cock up that needs to be rectified.

no sense in waiting to explain it during the disciplinary
( mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Sat 24 Jan 2009, 22:00, closed)

my advice
would be to email your immediate supervisor basically saying what you've said here, and asking them to confirm that the policy is that you'll be fired if you go over budget.

Then when you have it in writing that

i) you've pointed out the problem, and
ii) you were told not to go over budget anyway

don't go over budget regardless of the consequences.

I'm not sure of employment law in Britain, but I assume there's some kind of redress in that situation.

Also my advice is not to take advice from people on b3ta.
(apeloverage committed the vile act of onanism on, Sun 25 Jan 2009, 9:15, closed)

One thing to consider
Is that the Inland Revenue allow you 40p per mile by car and 24p by motorbike. As your employers are only giving you 12p, you're fully entitled to claim back the remaining 28p per mile on Self Assessment. So keep records and get it back!
( Olembe Refuses to write in this space, Sun 25 Jan 2009, 10:57, closed)

So..........
Your employer has mad eit clear that you have to deliver certain revenues from your project, yet they are denying you the (reasonable) mileage to implement your strategy? On pain of dimissal?

The words "constructive dismissal" spring to mind.

Document EVERYTHING, all correspondence on this issue, telephone calls, emails etc and prepare to get down and dirty in court.
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Sun 25 Jan 2009, 11:49, closed)

it seems to me . . . .


. . . . You work in a 'blame someone else' and 'it's my turn for the high horse' environment. Love it or leave it...

as a careers guidance executive consultant that will be 2 grand.
(The Cats Twat, Wed 28 Jan 2009, 23:10, closed)