Cubicle Conundrum - Day 19

N: I’ll be right back.

Q: Where are you off to?

N: Submitting a claim for reimbursement of expenses.

Q: Didn’t you do that last week? Three hundred bucks?

N: Yeah last week I had to submit the preliminary form and obtain provisional approval.

Q: Oh. And now?

N: Now I find out the status of my provisional approval and submit a three page account of the nature of my expenses and why I deserve reimbursement.

Q: So you’ve prepared the three page report?

N: Of course not. First I need to write a letter to the Manager in-charge of provisional approval requesting a shift of status from ‘Provisional’ to ‘Kinda Serious’.

Q: Oh.

N: Upon the manager’s approval I need to perform my most capable rendition of the South Hocseinish* National Anthem backwards, for which I’ve hired a South Hocseinish consultant who works with me for 75 bucks an hour, 2 hours a day for three days a week.

Q: ….

N: Provided my vocal skills are competent, I can then submit my three page account and get it signed off by the Regional Manager for Kinda Serious Claims to certify that it is a valid claim.

Q: So, THEN you get your money?

N: No. Then comes the background check, for which I need to bear expenses. The background check involves about 50 privately contracted agents following me and speaking to my next of kin to gauge my standing as a human being.

Q: ….

N: THEN I get my money.

Q: All this for three hundred bucks?

N: Yeah.

Q: What about the money you lose trying to get the reimbursement in the first place?

N: Are you really that stupid? I just have to file another claim for reimbursement.





*South Hocsein - A remote country. Pronounced (South hok-sine). And no, there is no North Hocsein.