3 posts tagged “office”

Oh, how embarrassing.  Twice in one day yesterday I made a major FUBAR.  It’s embarrassing as hell but kind of painfully funny because of the stupid mistakes I’ve been making.  Absentmindedness has never been so bad for the workplace.

So here’s what happened…

First, one of our vendors that we pay twice a month (for discounts) had a statement that was sent for the second half of December.  I thought it was for the first half of January and used the discount at the bottom of the statement.  Lois came back and asked why… the discount due date was clearly printed at the bottom “December 26th“ or something and I cut the check on January 3rd.  Should have been NO discount.  They’ll bill us for it later, I assume… but that was a highly embarrassing accounting error and should never have been made.  : (

Second and most recently… I cost a labor bill for an installer yesterday to the WRONG installer AND wrong Job completely.  It’s as if I didn’t think at all when I was doing it and reused the same form data over again.  So now, we have an installer who was OVERPAID and an installer that was UNDERPAID and a job that doesn’t have a proper receipt for work done.  *sigh*   Another very embarrassing error that will no doubt cause headaches for HR for the next day or two.

I’m making a bloody mess of things, I don’t mean to… absentmindedness is killing me inside and out.  Not thinking clearly though I think that I am at any given moment is going to get me fired.   I’ve never made so many drastically stupid mistakes in a row in my life.

I think I’d operate better if I were impaired by drugs or alcohol at this moment than this damn preggy brain.

Oh well, back to delivering disaster... only 4.5 months left...

Why is it that we don’t have a better system for covering the front desks if our receptionist and/or HR person isn’t here?  I think this is the first time that I've gotten into it with Anna.

I’m sorry but I can’t just drop everything I have and spend the day up front when I’m behind on work that I have to do.

The worst part?  If I say that I can not cover the desk, whomever has asked gets all moody like they’re more important than I am when we’re pretty much equals.  I get called to cover the phones and/or the front for all sorts of occasions.

Anna in particular annoys the piss out of me because she seems to think that my job doesn’t exist or something.  Maybe she thinks that I don’t do anything important for the company or perhaps it’s because I don’t talk about my job to other persons in the company aside from 3 people.  Nobody else needs to know the numbers or job cost specifics.

Nobody shares my job, I can’t just hand paperwork over to someone else to take care of it… I’m not the head of a department and I can’t roll the workflow downhill.  I am the bottom of Accounting.

Another person that sometimes covers the front is a data entry type assistant who has her own assistant now… hello, likely candidate much?  Why isn't SHE being called upon more often hmmm?

Just a little while ago, I was asked if I could cover part of the afternoon.  Apparently, Anna (our Graphic Designer) was up front most of the day covering because Teresa (our Receptionist) had to go to Urgent Care and has been moved to the Emergency Room.

I don’t mind covering a little here and there but she wanted me to cover for the rest of the day…. No way.  I can’t bring my work up with me and I don’t like to sit idle up front looking like I’m not doing anything.  Well… right now, I’m pissed off and writing a blog but that's not something that I do often.

Anna was fine when I said I would be coming up at 2 to cover, then got irritated when I said I’d be done at 3.  She said and I quote, “I don’t know why I always get stuck up there all day, I’ve got shows coming up.”  (By shows she means marketing has shows and events to go to.) 

Now I’m even more irritated.  “Well, I have work to do… I have to pay the bills.”

“Yeah, well there won’t be any bills to pay if we don’t get those shows out” She said as she walked away… as if she doesn’t waste 75% of her day goofing off instead of making the signs for displays and stuff that she should be doing.  I’ve done Graphic Design, I know that the programs we use here are easily installed on just about any other machine in the office and I know how well flash drives work… she just knows she can’t just goof off the entire time up front.

We just about got into it again a moment ago.  Now she’s trying to dictate WHEN I’m going up… I offered 2-3.  She wants me to go up 3-4 now.  So pompous.  I'm sick of people trying to walk on me.   

Improveit! Home Remodeling had decided that my work on Monday night through Tuesday morning was enough to credit back the half day that I took on Monday to offset the work I was to do later that night and Tuesday afternoon to go sleep.

I, for one… am shocked at this rare case of noticing.

I didn’t expect to have any recognition of the work applied to that all-nighter let alone be credited back the time I took off to recuperate.  See, Network Administration isn’t one of my job responsibilities so I didn’t think that they would view my time away from my true job responsibilities as creditable to my position… therefore… time I throw away.

Wow.

I went to bed when we got home (around 12,) woke up a few hours later to the sounds of Darren talking on his cell.  The office was in turmoil again over a couple marketing machines and a LOT of exaggeration.  He hadn’t gotten more than a few minutes sleep between calls.  He had darts in a couple hours so I decided to take a shower and go with him.

Went over to the Sunset Grill in Reynoldsburg/Pickerington and had dinner and a beer while they played darts.  When we finally got home, around 10:30pm… he was done.  Laid down and he was out.  I fell asleep around 11:30 or so.

He had a restless night, I slept like I was in a coma.  Darren isn’t feeling all that great today… I think his immune system took a dump from the lack of sleep.  I seem to be ok.  He said something this morning about not going to cards tonight, he needs to get some rest anyway.