Meeting transcript: MTG_32179 (notsofar)

Ron: Well, I am glad everybody is here today um we'll be going to lunch soon but  

Ron:   uh I want everybody to   to focus.

Sarah: Mm-hmm.

Beth: <BA/>

Ron: Because we've gone over budget on the  

Beth: It's a tough time, budget before lunch.

Ron: <BA/>

Ron:   uh the aquarium.

Beth: Mmm.

Ron: That means that everybody's department will have to cut twenty percent  

Ron:   of uh   of   of their  

Sarah: Mm-hmm.

Ron:   <FILL/> specific budget  

Ron:   and uh I'd like to   to hear  

Beth: I  

Beth: <BA/>

Sarah: Yeah.

Beth: Ugh.

Ron:   how everybody can  

Linda: Twenty percent?

Ron:   uh  

Ron:   twenty percent everybody's gonna have to cut.

Beth: Wow.

Linda: That's a lot.

Ron: Well, the   the aquarium went uh   went overbudget from what we were expecting.

John: Why did it go over budget exactly?

Ron: <UNKNOWN/>

Linda: By how much?

Ron: <UNKNOWN/>

Ron: The octopus. The octopus  

John: Octopus was too expensive?

Ron: Much more expensive than we thought.

Rachel: OK let's get rid of the  

Sarah: So we're talking about budget just for the aquarium or the whole floor?

Beth: Yeah.

Linda: Wait a minute. How much was   <FILL/> I'm just curious <FILL/>   How much was the octopus?

Beth: <FILLlaugh/>

Ron: Well the <FILL/>   <FILL/> it wasn't just the octopus which cost like five thousand.

John: The shipping was expensive.

Linda: OK.

Beth: It's like the whole   it's the   the   and   and   and the way we have to uh maintain it.

John: The  

John: <FL/> the shipping.

Ron: We   We  

Ron:   We  

Linda: Five thousand including everything?

Ron: Yeah, but we had   the fact that we had to replace the octopus when the shark ate the first octopus, that's uh yes  

Sarah: So are we talking about budget just for  

Beth: <FILLlaugh/>

John: Exactly.

John: Yes.

Sarah: Just for that or are we talking about budget for the whole third floor?

Beth: Yeah.

Ron: No we're talking about the entire budget for the mall.

Rachel: <BA/>

Rachel: OK.

Sarah: OK.

Beth: So I don't know.

Ron: So everybody has to come uh  

Rachel: So let's be   let's be positive. We know that there is no way back on the twenty percent uh  

Linda: Oh <UNKNOWN/>  

Linda:   for the whole mall.

Ron: Let's hear what everybody has to say.

Linda: So we're talking   So we're talking <FILL/> hundreds of thousands.

Beth: Is there a hierarchy maybe because I don't see how I'm gonna be able to <UNKNOWN/>  

Rachel: There is no  

Rachel:   not  

Beth:   twenty percent from the   from  

Beth:   <FILL/> from the  

Beth:   yeah  

Rachel: We have  

Beth:   toiletry like from the toilets?

Sarah: So we <FILL/>   So we know   Wait, let's just organize this for a second. So we know that for the aquarium, we have gone a bit  

Rachel: So  

Ron: Cheaper toilet paper. There are lots of different ways.

Sarah:   <FILL/> I know for the aquarium we went a bit over budget.

Beth: Mm-hmm.

Sarah: But in some areas, I know that we have  

Rachel: OK.

Sarah:   an extra budget. So let's say that this kind of equals out. So we know   we need to know how we are budgeting throughout this.

Rachel: Yeah, let's note  

Linda: <FILL/> But   <FILL/> But we   But we don't   But we don't know that without the numbers.

Rachel:   the numbers. What are the numbers?

Ron: OK.

Rachel: Give me the numbers please.

Ron: OK.

Sarah: I have   I have the full numbers. Uh the report I can send it to <FILL/> <PName> Ron </PName> I can send it to you for tomorrow.

Linda: Are we talking about <FILL/> thousands of dollars, hundreds of dollars, ten thousand dollars? How much are we talking?

Rachel: No we wanna  

Rachel:   uh I wanna hear them now.

Ron: OK.

Beth: And for how long are you expecting this twenty percent to be deducted from our usual budgets, which  

Beth:   we gave four months ago. Let me remind you all.

Sarah: Yeah, but from all of our departments I think we can all go and kind of see where we can  

Ron: OK.

Rachel: No, but  

Beth: <BA/>

Rachel: I know that   I know that I cannot go  

Sarah:   kinda deduct a little bit from.

Linda: What ten   ten percent from each uh   from each department?

Rachel: I know that I cannot go for less than uh  

Sarah: Maybe something like that.

Rachel:   two million  

Rachel:   under the uh  

Rachel:   <FILL/> under my   under my regular budget. If I go under two million  

Sarah: Under the budget.

Beth: <BA/>

Rachel:   we are done.

Linda: Right.

Rachel: We   We uh I cannot   I cannot uh  

Sarah: OK.

Linda: Right.

Linda: <UNKNOWN/>

Rachel: How about you?

Sarah: How about <PName> John </PName> ? What do you think?

Rachel: In your   In your department how much  

Beth: <PName> John </PName> .

John: I think  

John: <FILL/>

Rachel: <FILL/>

Linda: <FILL/> I would say a million.

John: I think there's   there is a lot of things we need to take into consideration at this moment.

John: For now we need to look at yes we're gonna spend a lot of money with our aquarium but we need to understand that we're gonna make a lot of money  

Sarah: Like  

Rachel: <BA/>

Sarah: Mm-hmm.

John:   with of the   with amount of customers we're gonna get. I don't know who the <FILL/>   the numbers now.

Rachel: How much money?

Rachel: How much money?

Rachel: We have to have numbers we cannot move forward without numbers.

Linda: Yeah, we need to   we need to know for   if we  

John: We will only know in the next two months.

Linda:   if we're talking about the ten thousands, if we're talking about the hundred thousands, what are we talking about in terms of numbers?

Beth: OK.

Sarah: Well let's just   let's just talk.

Beth: OK, well look my   my annual budget which we gave four months ago, so this should always be clear in our minds anyway people was uh <FILL/>  

John: <BA/>

Sarah: Yeah.

Linda: Right.

Beth:   Sixty mill for the year OK?

Linda: OK.

Beth: And twenty percent of that I   I really think we have to break this down and actually make a hierarchy so  

Beth:   you know <FILL/> what's more important because I don't think that I can actually cut from my budget or we're already ready scraping it.

Sarah:   of what's important.

Sarah: I think uh  

Sarah: So what's   <FILL/> Remind me what's your department again.

Beth: And the facilities like uh toilets  

Rachel: If I may   <FILL/> If I may interrupt here  

Beth:   <FILL/>  

Sarah: OK.

Rachel:   instead of each one of us fighting for their own  

Beth: <BA/>

Rachel:   cut let's do now. Let's  

Rachel: <FILL/> We know that we need this. We know   We know that the   the uh  

Rachel:   the addition of the third floor has been voted, we know that the aquarium is voted.

Sarah: Yeah.

Beth: Yeah.

Sarah: Yeah.

Rachel: So, let's now make it numbers. I will believe that  

Ron: OK.

Ron: <UNKNOWN/>

Rachel:   <FILL/> instead of talking uh percentage, I'm ready to   I told you, I'm ready to give  

Beth: Mmm.

Rachel: <UNKNOWN/>

Rachel:   a million and a half  

Rachel:   out of my budget. How much are you get already?

John: <FILL/> I personally don't wanna take out any budget of my personal  

Rachel: <BA/>

Beth: I'm willing to go down by ninety like  

John:   um  

Beth:   to five percent.

Rachel: <FILL/> How much is five percent? I need   I need to hear the numbers.

John: Two hundred thousand dollars.

Beth: Two hundred thousand dollars.

Rachel: Wow.

Ron: Mm-hmm.

Ron: Look I would  

Linda: OK OK the two hundred thousand to me sounds reasonable.

Rachel: <BA/>

Beth: It's just that we won't have that great soap in the bathrooms that you know  

Sarah: One and a half.

Sarah: No, but guys, I think <FILL/>   I think that we are over  

Linda: <FILL/> Right.

Linda: Yeah.

Sarah:   exaggerating twenty percent is now because it's under construction, but as soon as everything starts going in a holiday season  

Beth: That's why I wanna know as well for how long is this projected?

Ron: That's right.

Sarah:   it's gonna be   I  

Ron: We're talking about three months, OK?

Sarah: Yeah it's a very short term decrease, so I think it's something that we don't really need to give up that much on. I think that we <FILL/> just have to think about the overall budget.

Linda: Three months.

Rachel: So <PName> Ron </PName>  

Beth: OK I've got some things in reserve. I've got some things stored up as well.

Rachel:   give us   give us the numbers.

Linda: Yeah but if   if we're estimating three months it's gonna turn out to be five months so we need to take that into consideration.

Rachel: <BA/>

Rachel: <UNKNOWN/>

Rachel: Instead of arguing, please <PName> Ron </PName> , give us the last numbers that you need to have for each department.

Beth: Yeah.

Linda: The numbers are always uh two times, three times, four times what we   what we anticipate.

Rachel: Please  

Ron: Well if we   if we end   if we strive for the rounded number of twenty  

Rachel:   the full numbers.

Ron:   percent I would like to have everybody give me three different  

Ron:   uh   uh  

Ron:   three different uh items that they can cut on  

Beth: Yeah.

Ron:   in order to uh   to   to reduce this budget.

Linda: Three?

Ron: Yes, three. Everybody come up with three.

Beth: <FILL/> OK.

Beth: <FILL/> OK.

Sarah: I think that in regards to um marketing  

Beth: <FILL/> When do you want that by? Sorry.

Rachel: <BA/>

Ron: <FILL/> In <FILL/>  

Ron: I'd like to hear right now you know just think of the top your head three things that you can cut everybody.

Sarah: Yeah.

Beth: Uh-uh.

Sarah: I think from  

Sarah: I think from uh   from marketing I think  

Beth: <FILLlaugh/>

Sarah:   we can be have more efficient digital marketing, we can have more efficient   we can decide to deduct a channel for now.

Ron: What's one?

Ron: That's two.

Sarah: Um  

Beth: Um  

Sarah:   and about my third one uh I'll think about it.

Sarah: Uh  

Ron: OK.

Sarah:   and while everyone else goes.

Ron: OK, <PName> Linda </PName> .

Linda: Yeah, no I <FILL/> .   I   I have to give this some thought. <FILL/> These numbers are hard to crunch.

Ron: OK.

Rachel: I told you already, my numbers is a million   eh <FILL/>   uh I could go up to a million five, also cut down  

Ron: Go ahead <PName> Rachel </PName> .

Ron: But give me three different items that you could cut down on.

Sarah:   from your department.

Sarah: From HR <FILL/> where   where can you cut down on?

Rachel: I cut down on the uh   uh presents for uh   for the holidays.

Beth: Mm-hmm.

Beth: Mmm.

Rachel: I could cut down uh