My husband worked in D1 athletics when we were first married and one of the most insane stories of bureaucracy run amok is as follows:
My husband was in charge of booking the rooms and meals on away trips for the MBB team. The team would use the hotel ballroom to watch film the night before the game and they would pay for “snacks” at night for the team. Often this would be charged as $25-30 per person for an ice cream sundae bar or similar.
Well, the university tells everyone to find ways to save money. So my husband determines an easy way is to stop buying the ice cream sundae package and instead just buy some ice cream from the local grocery store. He does this on a few trips.
A few weeks later he gets called into accounting and grilled because the receipts for the grocery store ice cream don’t itemize per ice cream bar. “How do we know how many they are getting?” My husband was baffled, who freaking cares how many ice cream bars they are getting, we are saving money. Nope. The accounting dept just wanted clean line items - one charge per person.
My husband went back to charging the university for the ice cream bar at the hotel and no one ever complained or questioned.
And this is why universities are broke and why I never donate any money.
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