Our department is woefully understaffed, causing us to work weeknights and often on weekends. After some coworkers in a different department left, their work got dumped on us. We tried to get some assistance from a different department (IT) who better fit the task. Their upper management told us they didn't have the budget. The same week, our CEO did a live broadcast of the 4th quarter results and proudly claimed a record breaking year with nearly $500million in profit (not revenue).
So I guess we did have the budget?