More Budgetary Shenanigans

Now, another year, I had some money left over in the budget, and I decided that what we ought to get was a new tractor for the yard. See, we had all these cars to move around, and we really needed a tractor with air brakes.

The Company had this department, that handled moving equipment around, so if you needed something, instead of buying it from outside the company, first you checked if they had an extra one somewhere else. Now this guy I called, he really wanted to get rid of this tractor, but it wasn't what we wanted. He told me that if I didn't take it, then he'd make sure that I never got the right thing. Well, I figured that it was better not to let him push me around, and frankly, whether I took it or not, it was the wrong kind of tractor, and it wouldn't work for what we needed, so I told him that we weren't going to take it. Well, that made him real mad.

This fool threatened to call the plant manager, and I told him to just go ahead and call. The plant manager called me a little while later, and asked me what was going on, I explained that the guy was trying to push something on us that we didn't want, and that he was being a real jackass to boot. So, I ended up winning, we got the right kind of tractor, one with the power and brakes that we needed, and that guy got chewed out by his boss. Turns out that he was trying to make his end of the year quota, and just wanted to move whatever he could, he didn't care a whit about what people really needed.