How to get your party budget approved ?

Budget Approval for the official parties :-) ... quite challenging, at the same time interesting ...

We are done with our first demo today and received a lot of client appreciation. Management is quite happy with our work and efforts that we had put in to make this demo a success.

It's Fortunate or unfortunate, i am not sure though, that all management people are currently out from NCR region. Fortunate :-) obvious reasons .. no one is watching you working, sitting on your head, asking for status every 5 min. I don't want to make a wrong impression here, rather i would want to say that i have got really good supervisors who are flexible enough to make my life at peace. Definitely, I have a daily status call every morning that in my opinion is required also to have a checkpoint on the progress of the work and take necessary actions accordingly.

Now, why unfortunate, because we want a grand party but who is going to pay the bills ? My Manager asked me to wait until he returns to India after couple of weeks and assured that we will rock a good party. 

Wait for another 2 weeks ... difficult ... so finally we asked to approve a budget for a small party until he arrives to India... so the conversation, in fact, negotiation goes like this. Bhavna, Sumit, Sandeep, Nitish and Nitin are my team members (names changed to keep the privacy ... huh)

Bhavna - This is regarding the party Budget ... :-) approx bill will be around 1300...plz approve...:D
Deepali - uff 2000 bucks bhavna
Sumit - Dekh lo ... Baad mein badi waali nahi milegi
Nitin - this is regarding chotta party
Sumit - 1300 is fine
Nitin - 1200 will do
Deepali - :) even 1100, but we want big party
Bhavna - even 200 will do
Nitin - 200 mein kya khayenge bhavna :)
Deepali - cafeteria ka khana bhi isse mahanga hai
Bhavna - Mc'D Allo tikki burger...with office ki coffee(free that too from CCD machine)
Deepali - bhavna tum party ki hi baat kar rahi ho na  ;) 
Sumit - yeh to 100 rs ki party hai for all
Bhavna - We are low on budget,,,kya karein, ll have to compromise.
Sumit - I think Bhavna is going to pocket the rest of the amount.. Good going ;)
Nitin - aur mere pass 100 rs ka khane pe 1 ice tea and m'c aloo burger free ka couopn hain. will help
Deepali - thankfully she didnt say she ll bring one biscuit packet with office tea and save rest of the money
Bhavna - Will share it with you Sumit...no worries.:)
Sumit - Ok. lets keep it at 1500 Ok. With big party, :) U guys deserve it. Mera budget kahaan hai :(
Deepali - cool :) Budget of Rs 1500 is ok with us excluding Sumit & Sandeep :P
Sumit - Excluding sandeep its 1200 :) 300 per person :P
Bhavna - phir to 1300 pur hi finalize kar lena tha
Deepali - theek hai sandeep ke saath share kar lenge, 300 bucks, aloo tikki with coldrink and icecream
chalo ab kaam kar lete hain ... Done at 1200 ...

Finally, we had good time while enjoying our small budget team party at CCD and Subway.

See our conversation to have fun in the heavy workload time. To smile, it pays nothing while it takes lot of effort in being serious at work. 

Learn to be crazy at times and Enjoy !!!