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trickykitty) wrote2022-03-23 08:15 am
trickykitty) wrote2022-03-23 08:15 am
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Work Changes
The contract I started at the tail end of Feb 2020, the oil and gas company that filed bankruptcy around Aug or Sept 2021, has finally relieved me of my accounting duties. Yesterday I spent the day showing the two remaining accountants how I do my daily work. They will be taking over those duties and will text me if they have any questions or need me to log back in for anything. So I'm still contracted with them on an on-call basis, but I am no longer responsible for any workload there.
On one hand I was really loving the overtime, but on the other hand I've been running a bit thin on overall energy.
The new contract with a government grant agency that helps drug abuse folks, mentally ill folks, abuse victims, folks going to jail, families in need, etc., still keeps invoking my name as though doing so will magically cure this department or that department of their sickness. Last Thursday they brought on a new temp-to-hire person to take over the month-end duties I've been working on cleaning up since I came on in October. Once I get her trained up through March's month-end, I'll probably have to start poking my nose in either the A/P department or the Cash Management department to see how they are wonkily doing things and start making headway on cleaning them up as well. The Cash Management department was given until last Friday to get some bank recons together, and I'm curious how well they fared in that task.
We have a Moon Moon that managed to piss me off so badly last week I told my boss I was just going to kill him to save her the time of writing him up to fire him. I was looking for a file to copy/paste from Feb into Mar while training the new girl, and it wasn't there. I verified January's version of that file was where it needed to be. Then I had a Very Strong suspicion and checked the SharePoint Recycle Bin. Not only have 3 of my files from MY folder that he doesn't even touch been deleted, stupid ass Moon Moon managed to systematically delete around 50 other files out of the SharePoint over the course of a few hours the day before.
A little backstory. We're in the process of migrating all of our files from a server drive (I-drive, as we have labelled it) to SharePoint. I hate SharePoint, and I hate this idea of getting rid of the I-drive completely, but that's not my call. This company also has the really bad habit of storing files in People-Named folders. So if you work on an entry one month, you would store the backup in YOUR folder, so I would store mine in a folder called Nicole. This is the worst way you can store official backup files for a company, especially one that's gone through at least 5 staff in a single position over the course of a single year. If you're looking for April 2021's spreadsheet, whose folder do you look in? Maybe Person A prepared the entry and has it stored in their folder and they emailed it as an attachment to Person B who actually uploaded it, but Person B changed the Prepared By name in the file so that when they then attached it in the Accounting Software system it has their name all over it, but when you go to that person's folder you never find it. [Psst - this place is a Mad House of Doing It All Wrong, which is why they have brought me in.] So the Accounting Director wanted me to set up the SharePoint file folder structure with how we were used to it being at other companies, with a Year folder, then Month folders in that, then the Categories of types of accounting entries, then the actual entries and backup within those folders. That way you can go straight to what you're looking for regardless of who worked on it.
So, Moon Moon, because he keeps screwing up the ACTUAL journal entries he was hired to work on, was given the menial task of locating the JEs and backup for entries dated Sept through Feb and copy them out of the old I-drive and into the new SharePoint structure. [This company's fiscal year is Sept-Aug, much like a typical school year, hence why we're starting with Sept and not Jan.] Moon Moon, in his infinite wisdom, set about his task, found a lot of JE spreadsheets and backup files, started ADDING folders into our already set up folder structure within the category folders......and we promptly stopped him from continuing to do that. But then he took all of the files he had put into those folders, copied them outside the folders, and the folders he created and the files in them are still there. Then, we noticed that he was putting ALL of the files into February, regardless of which month they were supposed to be for. So last week he was told to move them into the correct corresponding months.
Did he do that?
Well, according to the Recycle Bin, FUCK NO. Instead of moving or copy/pasting the files, he started deleting them out of the folders that they weren't supposed to be in. AND he was touching MY folders, which in this particular instance, the work I was training New Girl on is always a month behind on the journals. So in Feb, I post January's actual and I post a February accrual based on that actual. So the data backup that I had stored in February's folder, the file that I was specifically looking for, was dated for January instead of February, because that's the raw data that's in it. And rather than move it to January, HE DELETED IT. It's not even a folder he should be touching. He doesn't know what's in there. He has no fucking clue what he's doing. I swear we need to fire him before I lose my shit and start yelling at him and making him cry. Although I'm sure my friend and supervisor would pay extra money to witness something like that.
New Girl is awesome. She knows accounting. She knows her shit. I trust her to completely take over what I've started with the JE cleanup.
She's also keeping me sane at the moment.
On one hand I was really loving the overtime, but on the other hand I've been running a bit thin on overall energy.
The new contract with a government grant agency that helps drug abuse folks, mentally ill folks, abuse victims, folks going to jail, families in need, etc., still keeps invoking my name as though doing so will magically cure this department or that department of their sickness. Last Thursday they brought on a new temp-to-hire person to take over the month-end duties I've been working on cleaning up since I came on in October. Once I get her trained up through March's month-end, I'll probably have to start poking my nose in either the A/P department or the Cash Management department to see how they are wonkily doing things and start making headway on cleaning them up as well. The Cash Management department was given until last Friday to get some bank recons together, and I'm curious how well they fared in that task.
We have a Moon Moon that managed to piss me off so badly last week I told my boss I was just going to kill him to save her the time of writing him up to fire him. I was looking for a file to copy/paste from Feb into Mar while training the new girl, and it wasn't there. I verified January's version of that file was where it needed to be. Then I had a Very Strong suspicion and checked the SharePoint Recycle Bin. Not only have 3 of my files from MY folder that he doesn't even touch been deleted, stupid ass Moon Moon managed to systematically delete around 50 other files out of the SharePoint over the course of a few hours the day before.
A little backstory. We're in the process of migrating all of our files from a server drive (I-drive, as we have labelled it) to SharePoint. I hate SharePoint, and I hate this idea of getting rid of the I-drive completely, but that's not my call. This company also has the really bad habit of storing files in People-Named folders. So if you work on an entry one month, you would store the backup in YOUR folder, so I would store mine in a folder called Nicole. This is the worst way you can store official backup files for a company, especially one that's gone through at least 5 staff in a single position over the course of a single year. If you're looking for April 2021's spreadsheet, whose folder do you look in? Maybe Person A prepared the entry and has it stored in their folder and they emailed it as an attachment to Person B who actually uploaded it, but Person B changed the Prepared By name in the file so that when they then attached it in the Accounting Software system it has their name all over it, but when you go to that person's folder you never find it. [Psst - this place is a Mad House of Doing It All Wrong, which is why they have brought me in.] So the Accounting Director wanted me to set up the SharePoint file folder structure with how we were used to it being at other companies, with a Year folder, then Month folders in that, then the Categories of types of accounting entries, then the actual entries and backup within those folders. That way you can go straight to what you're looking for regardless of who worked on it.
So, Moon Moon, because he keeps screwing up the ACTUAL journal entries he was hired to work on, was given the menial task of locating the JEs and backup for entries dated Sept through Feb and copy them out of the old I-drive and into the new SharePoint structure. [This company's fiscal year is Sept-Aug, much like a typical school year, hence why we're starting with Sept and not Jan.] Moon Moon, in his infinite wisdom, set about his task, found a lot of JE spreadsheets and backup files, started ADDING folders into our already set up folder structure within the category folders......and we promptly stopped him from continuing to do that. But then he took all of the files he had put into those folders, copied them outside the folders, and the folders he created and the files in them are still there. Then, we noticed that he was putting ALL of the files into February, regardless of which month they were supposed to be for. So last week he was told to move them into the correct corresponding months.
Did he do that?
Well, according to the Recycle Bin, FUCK NO. Instead of moving or copy/pasting the files, he started deleting them out of the folders that they weren't supposed to be in. AND he was touching MY folders, which in this particular instance, the work I was training New Girl on is always a month behind on the journals. So in Feb, I post January's actual and I post a February accrual based on that actual. So the data backup that I had stored in February's folder, the file that I was specifically looking for, was dated for January instead of February, because that's the raw data that's in it. And rather than move it to January, HE DELETED IT. It's not even a folder he should be touching. He doesn't know what's in there. He has no fucking clue what he's doing. I swear we need to fire him before I lose my shit and start yelling at him and making him cry. Although I'm sure my friend and supervisor would pay extra money to witness something like that.
New Girl is awesome. She knows accounting. She knows her shit. I trust her to completely take over what I've started with the JE cleanup.
She's also keeping me sane at the moment.