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Tuesday, Jun. 29, 2004 - 5:32 p.m. First off, the following joke from today�s Top Five newsletter: A sex-discrimination lawsuit filed against Wal-Mart in 2001 by three female former employees has been certified a class action suit and could potentially include up to 1.6 million current and former female employees. The suit alleges that Wal-Mart pays its female employees less than male employees get for the same work. Male employees were shocked by the suit, as they didn't believe it was possible to earn less than Wal-Mart pays them. (Brad Wilkerson) I will admit this shouldn�t crack me up (especially becasue Wallyworld is EVERYONE�S whipping boy these days), but the truth is sometimes funnier than fiction, isn�t it? And I need all the humor I can get thesedays�. So the insanity that is �end of fiscal year� spending is now winding down. This year has been worse than any of the past 5 (the time I have been in charge of purchasing at the Mohall storage). How can that be, you might ask? We haven�t had money since late winter, and they haven�t let me buy parts for mowers and such (without a bunch of pleading and/or complaining) since February. That is exactly the problem. Think of the budget at the storage in a different way- as one household�s personal income. Say this household receives a check for the coming year�s salary on July 1st. They won�t be getting any other income for the next 12 months. Yeah, I know- that would never happen. If you get your pay BEFORE you do a lick of work, why show up every day? (Play along with me. I really do have a point with this lousy comparable.) Knowing you have to get by on only this money, you don�t go out and spend all of it by September. You buy what you need, but try to conserve where possible. January rolls around, and after going through half of the year, you still have a bit over 50% of your salary left in the bank. This would be a good thing, right? You are staying within a budget, making sure you don�t run out. But let�s say you have a really dumb owner to the company you work for (not mentioning any names here, but L.B.M. would be considered the CEO of my employer, so�). He sees the money down to half full, but to him it is half empty. So he tells you to stop spending your money. You allocation, which you have been carefully controlling, is now no longer yours to spend as needed. Why? Because the CEO has decided he wants to build new departments to his company to pay back loyal shareholders who helped get him his job (are you following this? Good�). The only way he can do this is to go into your checking account and say, take 5% or 10% of your remaining funds. Crazy, isn�t it? You do what you are supposed to do with your money, but after giving you your share of the payroll the CEO takes what he wants back. As if that isn�t crazy enough� Then May rolls around, and you still have most of the remaining 40% or so you were left with in January, after he raided your account and told you to stop spending (as in repairing broken down trucks, and ordering supplies to keep the mowers running). NOW! SPEND IT ALL! DON�T MATTER ON WHAT -JUST MAKE SURE ALL OF YOUR ACCOUNTS ARE DOWN TO $0.00 AT MIDNIGHT ON JUNE $30TH! It�s worse this year, because I keep getting other counties (and today, other DISTRICT�S!) money that they can�t figure out how to get rid of themselves. I have a �wish list� that I started back in March. On it, I have listed every part or supply that we needed back over the last 6 months but weren�t allowed to purchase. I filled that list out with purchases I made last week with the first money sent my way. So far this week, I have had over $7000 transferred into my off-road accounts (now down to &86 and change, with a little help from Beavis�s spending) and $5000 added to the commodities accounts (now at negative $13.59, which won�t make someone in London very happy). Moving that much money that quickly is a draining task. Might sound like fun (spending someone else�s money), but it�s not. Tomorrow is the last day of the fiscal year. I hope they don�t try to dump any more money into our accounts. I have no idea of anything we need that we could spend it on at this point� One last thing: The state of North Dakota still has no budget agreement for the new fiscal year. It starts on Thursday, two days from now. Why? Because Little Big Man is still trying to show the leader of the state house of representatives that HE RUNS THIS STATE, not the leader. He is being showed how wrong he is every day this drags on. What a pathetic grade school playground pissing contest this has become. The governor calls them in each day for a �special session� ($17,500 in salaries a day for these short meetings, billable to the taxpayers of North Dakota). The speaker brings them into session with the rap of his gavel, tells them they don�t have anything to debate, raps his gavel one more time, and sends them home (or to the local days Inn, I guess, for the members from long distances away from the capitol) We have been assured there will be no shutdown of the government. Money will be allocated for expenses until the budget agreement is reached. If it drags on too long, a shutdown of non-safety related offices could happen. That wouldn�t include us, though- road safety is a priority. At least that is what we have been told. With an ego the size of the Grand Canyon, you never know what Little Big Man will do. He has used state employees as foils for his constant campaigning in the past 18 months. No reason to believe he won�t makes us his whipping boys and girls once again, if he thinks it will help him get elected to the White House. Like that will ever happen�
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