TO & FROM

Let me relate quite an interesting anecdote.

I work as a Cashier in a Residential School.

It happened yesterday.

Can't remember the student's name. He came yesterday with two bills. 3400. Countersigned by a teacher. 2750 puffs. 650 something else. I jocularly asked  who ate them all up. He said there was some activity involving the students. They were served snacks. He said the teacher had asked him to dip into mess funds for that. He was in charge of the mess for the month.

He asked me if there was any chance for its reimbursement. 

I said it was wrong to mix up mess funds with other expenses.

But I asked him to write everything that he had explained on a piece of paper, obtain approvals from both the teacher and the head of the institution and once it was done   the expenses could be reimbursed. I had told him if the requirement was complied with   it would be paid that day itself.

Today he brought it to me before it was  submitted to the head of the institution.

The letter format to me was incorrect. It began with 'To'and then 'From' instead of the usual 'From'  and 'To,' order I had been familiar with.

When I pointed it out he said the Superintendent had taught them to do it like that. He added they were all doing it that way now. I replied they should go by what the Superintendent had  taught as he was the  next in line to the head of the  institution in academics and the students never must deviate from the Superintendent's  views

However,  I reminded him that when he brought  it to me it had to be in the correct format. I showed him a  sample and advised him to keep a photo of it.

He came back in half an hour, in the format I had suggested. 

The amount 3400 was paid at once.

As I had stated earlier it was quite interesting