I never received such a threat in my days on large company projects, but I am no stranger to the perverse year end logic that often meant trying to spend large sums of money as quickly as possible.
I guess like work, money will get spent to meet it's allotted budget, or something like that.
Snarky: I'll put it this way. If you don't spend the money before Friday, there won't be enough to keep you on Monday.
