In some fields, continued education is a requirement. As we all know, knowledge is a powerful thing, so to remain updated and educated in the specificities of your career is to remain at the top of your game in the workplace. With education also being a 'luxurious' expense, this kind of cerebral maintenance isn't something that's prioritized by the beancounters in the backroom.
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There are many reasons that the employee populous gives the accounting department a bad rep. Typically, the bean counters are the bearers of bad news– you're not getting that raise you deserve, 'we can't afford to hire anyone to alleviate your workload', and sometimes they even openly admit that the company is drowning in debt –so when we're faced with a financial predicament in the workplace, they're usually the first to be a naysayer.
However, in our next story, these particular bean counters earned their defamed title by being utterly ludicrous. Their entire department is dedicated to penny-pinching and cutting costs, but some costs have backlash when clipped. Scroll onward to read how one man's accounting department failed to do simple math, cutting a $15/annual fee to maintain OP's continued education in lieu of a $100 required training program.
Now THAT doesn't quite add up…
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