I spoke to someone at CAIS on Friday who told me what the holdup is on our application. Apparently they don't have a price reference for donkeys in our municipality!!! Good Grief! They also say they don't have a price for some of the classes of cattle on our inventory.
I told her that if she needs a price reference for donkeys, just use mine because I'm the only person in the municipality who ever sells them. I'm not even sure what they need this price for, except that it has something to do with structure changes and such.... I guess.
She says that it's out of her hands, because whoever is working on our file checks once a week with some kind of finance department who is in charge of coming up with this price. If it's not posted, then they just put it away and check a week later. Or so she says. I can just imagine how high a priority the price of donkeys in one municipality where they hardly exist is in the minds of the finance people!
Now, how much a change of price of a few bucks on five donkeys would possible affect our reference margin is beyond me. They are holding up a pretty big calculation over a potential change of maybe a hundred dollars. In the meantime we sit and wait and possibly have to make some fairly substantial business decisions without knowing how this is going to turn out.
As for the cattle prices they say they don't have, there is NO EXCUSE!!! They've had since January 1st to know what they are, and the year is almost over.
She also told me there are lots and lots of people in the same situation as us, and she didn't think there was a single thing she could do about it but apologize.
I think some people need to be replaced, and soon.
I told her I was going to call back several times a week to check on progress, and ask to have a note attached to the file every time I call.
I'll try the "squeaky wheel get's the grease" approach, and see how that works.
I told her that if she needs a price reference for donkeys, just use mine because I'm the only person in the municipality who ever sells them. I'm not even sure what they need this price for, except that it has something to do with structure changes and such.... I guess.
She says that it's out of her hands, because whoever is working on our file checks once a week with some kind of finance department who is in charge of coming up with this price. If it's not posted, then they just put it away and check a week later. Or so she says. I can just imagine how high a priority the price of donkeys in one municipality where they hardly exist is in the minds of the finance people!
Now, how much a change of price of a few bucks on five donkeys would possible affect our reference margin is beyond me. They are holding up a pretty big calculation over a potential change of maybe a hundred dollars. In the meantime we sit and wait and possibly have to make some fairly substantial business decisions without knowing how this is going to turn out.
As for the cattle prices they say they don't have, there is NO EXCUSE!!! They've had since January 1st to know what they are, and the year is almost over.
She also told me there are lots and lots of people in the same situation as us, and she didn't think there was a single thing she could do about it but apologize.
I think some people need to be replaced, and soon.
I told her I was going to call back several times a week to check on progress, and ask to have a note attached to the file every time I call.
I'll try the "squeaky wheel get's the grease" approach, and see how that works.
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