WEFO - The Bane of My Existence

I'm thinking that a whole lot of my rantings on here are gonna be about work. That being the case, I have to explain the state of my current employment.

I work for a small community business. We're a non-profit organisation. We get our funding through WEFO - the Welsh European Funding Office. Every quarter, the manager receives a claim form. This claim form details the money we've spent and where it's gone, for WEFO to check we're spending their money in a way they allow. When this claim form is posted back, WEFO process it and send us a cheque for the amount claimed. This money covers staff costs, admin, bills, etc etc for the quarter.

That's how it's supposed to work. This is how it actually works:

Every quarter, the manager receives a claim form. He fills it in and sends it back within a matter of days (normally two or three). This claim form then sits on a desk at WEFO for three weeks or so until the deadline for claim form submissions is nigh. Once the deadline has passed, it continues to sit on a desk at WEFO until the disorganised administration and management staff can get up off their lazy friggin' arses and process the damned thing. Then we get our money a month later than pay day. This means we get two lots of staff wages at once. This also means that we have two months worth of bills to pay all in one go.

At this stage I feel it necesarry to point out that the manager is about as financially minded as a dung beetle (in that he constantly finds himself shovelling shit). He refuses to ringfence staff wages to pay us throughout the quarter until the next lot of funding comes through, instead using the money to pay off bills that could otherwise wait. My pay hasn't been on time since christmas.

To say I'm pissed off would be a drastic understatement. However, my attempts to find a new job have so far been fruitless. This area is one of the most socially and economically deprived areas of the whole of Europe.

Sucks to be me.