Blowing off steam
Don't feel obliged to read this ...
I'm so tired I hardly can sit straight, and I'm so pissed of my colleague.
Last week I've changed jobs within the company, and the one who did the job before me left on Tuesday. She quit because the work was too boring for her, it's actually not enough for a full time job, she had to find new challenges, blah blah blah.
So the next day I get three phonecalls within an hour, suppliers of ours, each of them had sent several payment reminders already, they were waiting for payments for months. At the same time I discover open credit card bills of 23.000 CHF (around 15.000 EUR) dating back to September and can't seem to find the paperwork of that entire month. I am responsible for petty cash for the whole company, and neither of the five currencies we use is balanced right. I have to find certain bills for last year's audit, and not only credit card and cash accounts are totally messed up, there's dozens of bills missing. There's a ton of supplier's invoices to book before tomorrow's payment, first I have to sort out the utter crap she booked the months before. Meanwhile three more suppliers call about their reminders, and I find such stupid mistakes she made that I wonder if she didn't do it on purpose. Even my apprentice, who's the laziest ass in the world and much rather takes hour-long smoking breaks and writes e-mails with his little girlfriend in Export department, can't come up with shit like that.
All in all she took more effort hiding that she had no clue about anything she did than actually trying to sort it out. Now I can quietly curse at her for nine hours a day and STILL not really sort it out because business has to keep going. Only positive thing about it is that my boss seems impressed that I'm handling the mess quite effectively.
*breathe*
I'm so tired I hardly can sit straight, and I'm so pissed of my colleague.
Last week I've changed jobs within the company, and the one who did the job before me left on Tuesday. She quit because the work was too boring for her, it's actually not enough for a full time job, she had to find new challenges, blah blah blah.
So the next day I get three phonecalls within an hour, suppliers of ours, each of them had sent several payment reminders already, they were waiting for payments for months. At the same time I discover open credit card bills of 23.000 CHF (around 15.000 EUR) dating back to September and can't seem to find the paperwork of that entire month. I am responsible for petty cash for the whole company, and neither of the five currencies we use is balanced right. I have to find certain bills for last year's audit, and not only credit card and cash accounts are totally messed up, there's dozens of bills missing. There's a ton of supplier's invoices to book before tomorrow's payment, first I have to sort out the utter crap she booked the months before. Meanwhile three more suppliers call about their reminders, and I find such stupid mistakes she made that I wonder if she didn't do it on purpose. Even my apprentice, who's the laziest ass in the world and much rather takes hour-long smoking breaks and writes e-mails with his little girlfriend in Export department, can't come up with shit like that.
All in all she took more effort hiding that she had no clue about anything she did than actually trying to sort it out. Now I can quietly curse at her for nine hours a day and STILL not really sort it out because business has to keep going. Only positive thing about it is that my boss seems impressed that I'm handling the mess quite effectively.
*breathe*