title: Padding and Cutting.
scene: coffee.
#8832: This cycle of us padding budgets because of inevitable cuts and them cutting budgets because of inevitable padding is so time consuming.
#9343: Why doesn’t everyone just agree to do it properly?
#7733: Because (a) nobody can ever admit that it’s happening and (b) neither side could then claim the savings on their performance reviews.
#9343: There’s so much business school didn’t cover.
Caption: And so the cycle continues.