I want someone provocative and talkative...
But it's so hard when you're shallow as a shower.
(Please pardon any typos. I'm on my chromebook today and they keyboard is not the best. Poor thing is getting old.)
Another week down. On Thursday of last week, my boss started panicking when she look at my backlog of work. Since I was spending the vast majority of my days helping the other client, I was only gettng my highest priority tasks finished, but after three weeks everything else was majorly backing up. The other client had been fully caught up by that Monday, but were not letting any of us go. My own client's input team ended up 6 days behind because they are training three new people, another person is on sabbatical, and another person was getting ready to move to a different department. My boss's boss, the one who threw me into the shark-infested waters of the other client, completely forgot that I was already involved and told my boss to give me to my own client's input team until they caught up. Man, did my boss look offended! She told her boss off and informed her I was still pointlessly stuck with the other client and couldn't help, and oh by the way she was taking me back entirely so that I could do my own freaking job. I love my boss. So this whole week I was rushing around trying to clean up my own work. Surprisingly, as buried as I was, and as screwed up as two of my vendors are now, I m not stressing about it at all because it is actually my own work, I know with full certainty what I am doing, and I know that I can fix the vast majority of the issues.
My biggest vendor is our second biggest overall. It's a lovely little printing company who has no idea what they're doing. When I took them over I spent two months doing their own A/R because the statement was so screwed up, listing things from the beginning of 2017. Turns out, their A/R dept was applying payments wherever they felt like it, even though we send a remit with every payment to every vendor saying "$XXX goes to invoice ###". So I basically went back and forth with this girl who had just started in their A/R the same time I started my new position, and she would send me updated statements with how much of what they put where and I would respond with how each item should have been applied. The poor girl had never worked in finance before... But we are getting so much better. They still have a good few errors on our statements, but far less and it is just them mixing us up with our Canada counterpart (they have their own account and we are two separate companies). My boss has even told me that their account has not looked this good in years. So, all that work to get them into shape.
Our input team considers this vendor one of the easiest invoices to key, so they always start new people on them. The input trainer has a huge ego and an even bigger inability to train people. Speaking from experience, as she trained me, she has no idea how to explain things and has a memory like a goldfish so often I would message and ask her a question, and either she wouldn't answer because she forgot I messaged, or would forget the question in the four seconds it took to walk to my desk. She also continually told me incorrect information and it led to me nearly getting in huge trouble until I told my then-boss who had said to key the invoices the way that I did. Now that she is "training" three people at one, she is rushing through everything and there are more errors than ever. So many invoices are being input in all the wrong ways, and one of them likes to make up her own accounting. I have no idea where she is pulling the numbers from that she uses. I've had to talk to the trainer about the errors almost every day this past week and nothing is improving. I get that they are new, bt they have been here 3 weeks now and are making mistakes that should never have hapened from the get-go if they were trained properly! I ended up emailing my boss examples of some of the biggest issues, so she is going to talk to Input's boss and see what they can do about this disaseter because it is only getting worse.
So that is the big mess that I can actually do something about. Then I have this vendor freaking out because we haven't paid them since May. This company creates paper, then ships it to our printers. Once the printer gets it, they tell us they have received it, give us proof, and we pay the invoice. Well, the printer decided they have too much paper right now, so they have completely stopped accepting any paper at all, have turned trucks away, and are not receiving anything. Our paper department up in NYC is freaking out, and I can't say I blame them. The vendor wants their money because they held up their end of the bargain, but the printer is turning them away! I've come up with several theories in my down time, some more plausible than others, from people sleeping on the job, the receivers having a personal grudge against the drivers, not liking the paper company's name, and even a possible coup. Because why not. So I am now sitting on over a million dollars worth of invoices that we can't pay yet. I feel like I should be freaking out, but there is literally nothing that I can do about it since it is between our NYC paper department and the printer to figure this mess out.
Needless to say, it has been a busy and interesting week of work getting these and more issues sorted out.
In non-work news, my trivia team took first place on Tuesday! Just in time, too. We only have one more week at our location, and we may not have a new location lined up to go to. The restauarant we play at has decided they want to "go in a different direction with their events" (even though we are literally their only event). My guess is that they got tired of the trivia people constantly complaining, and I would not blame them at all. A few of the teams, and even some of my own team members, are the type of people who can never sit down order food, and like it. They always have to fnd something wrong and argue with the staff about it. It's incredibly annoying as a fellow patron, so I can only imagine how annoying it must be as the restaurant. They decided to give us until the end of the month an then we couldn't come back. The trivia company is looking for a new venue in the ares, but most of the restuarants close by 9/9:30 in this town, or don't have the space, so we may not keep going after this month. Sad, but it happens.
I was at walmart the other night and found these wall stickers that look like tiling. I ended up getting a back and adding them to my kitchen as a backsplash behind the sink. So now I actually have a little bit of decoration! They are dark blue and silver "tiles", and dd a nice touch of color to what is a very bland kitchen. I am excited to finally start properly decorting soon! I am considering getting one of those wall paper stickers that has a forest scene on it, and putting it in the living room, maybe between some bookshelves. I think that would look cool.
Gaming:
Destiny 2 is still doing their Solstice of Heroes event. I am trying to get one of my three characters, the one I play the most, up to the third tier of event armor. I would like to get my second character thre, as well, but might not have time. The event ends on this coming Tuesday, and it involves a lot of grinding. On the plus side, it does not, however, rely on RNG! That is the absolute worst. LIke, if I want to obtain something, but it means going twenty extra miles, I am fine with going that distance to definitely get it. But if after that twenty miles there is only a tiny chance I would get the item, I don't want to waste my time on it. That was my biggest issue with Destiny 1. They have moved away fro that a fair bit in D2, which I personally like, though, a lot of the playerbase has very divided opinions. I also preordered the upcoming DLC the other day! Forsaken drops on Sept 4, just in time for me to go on vacation, but I am super excited. Everything is shaping up to be awesome. I am most excited, though, about the new PvP mode, which is saying something because I dislike PvP. The mode, Gambit, mixes PvE and PvP in very unique ways, and I am psyched to see how it plays!
Reading:
I started reading Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan. I know I won't get around to watching the show for a while. Plus, I prefer shows that are already finished, so I may not get to it for years. Who knows. Anyway, the books i pretty interesting. I am big on scifi, and not big at all on detective novels, so it is weird. I want to love it and put it down at the same time. So I am going to keep up with it! I read it when I am running at the gym, so it is slow-ish going. My friend has seen the show so far and he loves it, so I am curious to see how they compare.
(Please pardon any typos. I'm on my chromebook today and they keyboard is not the best. Poor thing is getting old.)
Another week down. On Thursday of last week, my boss started panicking when she look at my backlog of work. Since I was spending the vast majority of my days helping the other client, I was only gettng my highest priority tasks finished, but after three weeks everything else was majorly backing up. The other client had been fully caught up by that Monday, but were not letting any of us go. My own client's input team ended up 6 days behind because they are training three new people, another person is on sabbatical, and another person was getting ready to move to a different department. My boss's boss, the one who threw me into the shark-infested waters of the other client, completely forgot that I was already involved and told my boss to give me to my own client's input team until they caught up. Man, did my boss look offended! She told her boss off and informed her I was still pointlessly stuck with the other client and couldn't help, and oh by the way she was taking me back entirely so that I could do my own freaking job. I love my boss. So this whole week I was rushing around trying to clean up my own work. Surprisingly, as buried as I was, and as screwed up as two of my vendors are now, I m not stressing about it at all because it is actually my own work, I know with full certainty what I am doing, and I know that I can fix the vast majority of the issues.
My biggest vendor is our second biggest overall. It's a lovely little printing company who has no idea what they're doing. When I took them over I spent two months doing their own A/R because the statement was so screwed up, listing things from the beginning of 2017. Turns out, their A/R dept was applying payments wherever they felt like it, even though we send a remit with every payment to every vendor saying "$XXX goes to invoice ###". So I basically went back and forth with this girl who had just started in their A/R the same time I started my new position, and she would send me updated statements with how much of what they put where and I would respond with how each item should have been applied. The poor girl had never worked in finance before... But we are getting so much better. They still have a good few errors on our statements, but far less and it is just them mixing us up with our Canada counterpart (they have their own account and we are two separate companies). My boss has even told me that their account has not looked this good in years. So, all that work to get them into shape.
Our input team considers this vendor one of the easiest invoices to key, so they always start new people on them. The input trainer has a huge ego and an even bigger inability to train people. Speaking from experience, as she trained me, she has no idea how to explain things and has a memory like a goldfish so often I would message and ask her a question, and either she wouldn't answer because she forgot I messaged, or would forget the question in the four seconds it took to walk to my desk. She also continually told me incorrect information and it led to me nearly getting in huge trouble until I told my then-boss who had said to key the invoices the way that I did. Now that she is "training" three people at one, she is rushing through everything and there are more errors than ever. So many invoices are being input in all the wrong ways, and one of them likes to make up her own accounting. I have no idea where she is pulling the numbers from that she uses. I've had to talk to the trainer about the errors almost every day this past week and nothing is improving. I get that they are new, bt they have been here 3 weeks now and are making mistakes that should never have hapened from the get-go if they were trained properly! I ended up emailing my boss examples of some of the biggest issues, so she is going to talk to Input's boss and see what they can do about this disaseter because it is only getting worse.
So that is the big mess that I can actually do something about. Then I have this vendor freaking out because we haven't paid them since May. This company creates paper, then ships it to our printers. Once the printer gets it, they tell us they have received it, give us proof, and we pay the invoice. Well, the printer decided they have too much paper right now, so they have completely stopped accepting any paper at all, have turned trucks away, and are not receiving anything. Our paper department up in NYC is freaking out, and I can't say I blame them. The vendor wants their money because they held up their end of the bargain, but the printer is turning them away! I've come up with several theories in my down time, some more plausible than others, from people sleeping on the job, the receivers having a personal grudge against the drivers, not liking the paper company's name, and even a possible coup. Because why not. So I am now sitting on over a million dollars worth of invoices that we can't pay yet. I feel like I should be freaking out, but there is literally nothing that I can do about it since it is between our NYC paper department and the printer to figure this mess out.
Needless to say, it has been a busy and interesting week of work getting these and more issues sorted out.
In non-work news, my trivia team took first place on Tuesday! Just in time, too. We only have one more week at our location, and we may not have a new location lined up to go to. The restauarant we play at has decided they want to "go in a different direction with their events" (even though we are literally their only event). My guess is that they got tired of the trivia people constantly complaining, and I would not blame them at all. A few of the teams, and even some of my own team members, are the type of people who can never sit down order food, and like it. They always have to fnd something wrong and argue with the staff about it. It's incredibly annoying as a fellow patron, so I can only imagine how annoying it must be as the restaurant. They decided to give us until the end of the month an then we couldn't come back. The trivia company is looking for a new venue in the ares, but most of the restuarants close by 9/9:30 in this town, or don't have the space, so we may not keep going after this month. Sad, but it happens.
I was at walmart the other night and found these wall stickers that look like tiling. I ended up getting a back and adding them to my kitchen as a backsplash behind the sink. So now I actually have a little bit of decoration! They are dark blue and silver "tiles", and dd a nice touch of color to what is a very bland kitchen. I am excited to finally start properly decorting soon! I am considering getting one of those wall paper stickers that has a forest scene on it, and putting it in the living room, maybe between some bookshelves. I think that would look cool.
Gaming:
Destiny 2 is still doing their Solstice of Heroes event. I am trying to get one of my three characters, the one I play the most, up to the third tier of event armor. I would like to get my second character thre, as well, but might not have time. The event ends on this coming Tuesday, and it involves a lot of grinding. On the plus side, it does not, however, rely on RNG! That is the absolute worst. LIke, if I want to obtain something, but it means going twenty extra miles, I am fine with going that distance to definitely get it. But if after that twenty miles there is only a tiny chance I would get the item, I don't want to waste my time on it. That was my biggest issue with Destiny 1. They have moved away fro that a fair bit in D2, which I personally like, though, a lot of the playerbase has very divided opinions. I also preordered the upcoming DLC the other day! Forsaken drops on Sept 4, just in time for me to go on vacation, but I am super excited. Everything is shaping up to be awesome. I am most excited, though, about the new PvP mode, which is saying something because I dislike PvP. The mode, Gambit, mixes PvE and PvP in very unique ways, and I am psyched to see how it plays!
Reading:
I started reading Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan. I know I won't get around to watching the show for a while. Plus, I prefer shows that are already finished, so I may not get to it for years. Who knows. Anyway, the books i pretty interesting. I am big on scifi, and not big at all on detective novels, so it is weird. I want to love it and put it down at the same time. So I am going to keep up with it! I read it when I am running at the gym, so it is slow-ish going. My friend has seen the show so far and he loves it, so I am curious to see how they compare.