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Tangled Webs
Feb. 22nd, 2016 08:32 pmLolotehe recently took care of the issue of cat pee on a couple bags worth of yarn for me. She washed the bags and skeins of yarn and then spent the next week or so unraveling the tangle that was created as a result of the washing. I helped for an hour or two one evening while we were hanging out. It was a project and a half.
That's about how I feel at work right now. There's been zero tracking systems to coordinate incoming email service requests, match invoice numbers to work order numbers, match payroll lines to invoices actually paid and make sure things haven't been paid out twice or have at least been paid in the first place, or even tracking of incoming payments from customers. Right now I'm trying to gather all the tangled threads into a couple of simple cross-referenced spreadsheets, but it's so damned time consuming it feels like I'm moving at a snail's pace. And the repetitiveness of posting all the invoices from a few months worth of notepad sheets into this spreadsheet and then cross referencing them over to this second spreadsheet is mind-numbing even for a person like me.
Right now, all I see are branches of numbers and spreadsheets entangling me to the point that I almost feel like I made a mistake changing jobs. I know it's just the discomfort of not being on top of, well, anything bookkeeping related at work right now. I know soon all this sorting of 10,000 decks of cards will start forming some semblance of organized chaos instead of just multiple stacks of chaos. I just wish it would hurry up and get there already.
That's about how I feel at work right now. There's been zero tracking systems to coordinate incoming email service requests, match invoice numbers to work order numbers, match payroll lines to invoices actually paid and make sure things haven't been paid out twice or have at least been paid in the first place, or even tracking of incoming payments from customers. Right now I'm trying to gather all the tangled threads into a couple of simple cross-referenced spreadsheets, but it's so damned time consuming it feels like I'm moving at a snail's pace. And the repetitiveness of posting all the invoices from a few months worth of notepad sheets into this spreadsheet and then cross referencing them over to this second spreadsheet is mind-numbing even for a person like me.
Right now, all I see are branches of numbers and spreadsheets entangling me to the point that I almost feel like I made a mistake changing jobs. I know it's just the discomfort of not being on top of, well, anything bookkeeping related at work right now. I know soon all this sorting of 10,000 decks of cards will start forming some semblance of organized chaos instead of just multiple stacks of chaos. I just wish it would hurry up and get there already.
