The great olive oil audit
Propulsion and the canteen share one budget line. It went as expected.
Sardine Aerospace
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Finance flagged an anomaly: the propulsion budget and the canteen budget are the same budget.
The audit lasted three days and produced the following figures:
- Litres purchased: 1,200.
- Litres burned for science: 700.
- Litres burned for lunch: 460.
- Litres unaccounted for: 40, traced to the chef's emergency reserve, which is a salad.
Ruling
The board ruled that lunch is propulsion, citing morale-per-newton figures nobody could refute.
The line item has been renamed thrust, general. Finance has stopped asking questions, which we consider our greatest engineering achievement to date.