The boss decided to play on April 1st. We have a client, we are an outsourcer for him. He as a manager of customers processes, and we do the work itself for fixed money monthly. It is our main budget, and without it we will fall apart.
Of course, not always everything is smooth, by the end of the month, there are often occasions for roganina. And here is the boss after the reports: "All, Yuri leaves us, said - no money, already found another office and they are times better!" Of course, everyone is upset, realizing that we seem to have been working for the last month. We throw options, how you can stay on the float, who to reduce, where to take orders, etc. In short, half a day of nerves and intense planning.
And then by night, suddenly I see a message from Yuri in Skype: "Why are you going to ******? Let’s negotiate the budget, maybe we’ll still be able to agree!" I, of course, don’t understand anything, I start asking. It turns out, this fool-chief decided to play both sides, he told us - the client is leaving, and he - we were lured by the competitors' offices to double big babies. And Yuri, too, for half a day, was looking for ways to extract extra money to keep us.
As a result, thanks to the innocent joke, the director received offgenic plans from us to reduce costs and optimize labor, and from the client - invaluable information about how painlessly to raise the work budget. And you say, a foolish useless celebration.