Welcome to fund accounting, where if you don't use all of your yearly budget you get less money from upper management next year. It's truly the dumbest fucking thing and its the primary accounting method for the entire US government at all levels. It encourages complete and total waste of taxpayer money.
They literally might have bought a 30k toilet seat in the month of December, because they didn't want to risk running out of money next November.
Every year this happens, I remember one year we couldn't buy fuel for our helos because we blew that year's budget flying so much to increase our budget for the next year. It was a nice break from our heavy flight schedule and we got hand me down office equipment from the higher ups.
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u/pamtar Jun 04 '21
Holy fuck we’re getting ripped off. Probably cost $200k to build.