Budget Cuts

I often times feel the stress of budget cuts in my current position because that is the nature of the beast in the social services field. We are expected to give, give, give, but the state keeps taking our money away. It is very frustrating when we are serving the most vulnerable citizens in Kansas but we have no money to do so.
Any who, I recently met with our CFO and requested to purchase new chairs for me and several of my staff because the chairs we currently have are going on 10 years old and have no padding left. I figured since we are in these chairs up to eight hours a day it would be nice to have one that has padding. After pricing chairs at three stores and coming back with this information I was told to look through our office supplies books to find a comparable chair for cheaper.





I sent this picture to the CFO and let her know that I could not find a chair in the book that was comfortable. Thankfully, she has a decent sense of humor.
I'm happy to report that the CFO approved my request for new chairs and I don't have to order them from an office supply book.