First, a little background information: My husband words for the housing department at a nearby university. He’s in charge of a lot of IT stuff, as well as being something of a manager as well. Plainly put? He’s a busy guy. The school’s food service operations are “outsourced” too a food service company. They hire their own workers, etc and so forth. But K has always helped them get things up and running correctly. Mostly, all he has to do is manage the IT side of the student’s meal plans but sometimes he has to go the individual operations and fix their registers or whatnot. Oftentimes, this would mean phone calls in the evenings after he was home from work or on the weekends as well. And a lot of times, he’d go down there and help them out. Even though such support is in no way in his job description.
Now, this food service company provides special meal plans for the people who work in K’s office, so they can use the operations, get food, see how things are running. Since, being the housing and food service department, they have a vested interest. There’s no limits on using these meal plans, meaning not only can K use his to purchase his own lunches, but he can purchase lunches for others. There is also a convenience store that has recently opened up that offers food and some grocery items. The meal plans work there as well and he has used them to purchase anything from pain relievers on a particularly stressful day at work, to picking up a loaf of bread to bring home when we’ve run out. Now, remember, there has been NO restrictions on using the meal plans in this fashion, either stated or written.
You can just see the drama coming here, can’t you?
Anyhow, I dug it, and I hope you will too.
