House & Work Updates
Dec. 10th, 2022 07:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trickykittyI *STILL* do not have a working pool. The pool guy FINALLY talked to me Thursday after two weeks of dodging my calls and text messages and said he had previously purchased the wrong valve and now has the correct one. I'm thinking he's one of those that lies his ass off to cover it and he's just been too busy and forgetting outright to finish getting my pool completed. The water is green again, so I need to go put in some more chlorine. He said they should be able to finish the install of the valve and the reconnecting of the return pipes this week, but I seriously doubt that will happen anytime before next weekend, if I'm lucky.
I sent over the property survey Thursday to Lowe's so they could get it to the city for the fencing permit. Roommate reported that someone was out yesterday who appeared to be taking measurements, so I'm hoping they will be ready to install that soon. I still need to talk to the backyard neighbors that I haven't met yet and inform them of the installation. I've been bad at putting that off.
The solar panels got installed mid-November, but it's been mostly cloudy days. That's just rude. I wanted them installed back in July when I first moved in. Not only am I starting off still getting energy from the electric company, but I wasn't able to switch to a net-metering plan back then, and in the past few months the cost has jumped quite significantly, which means I'm going to get locked into a more expensive plan.
I do finally have all of my staff at work rooting for the changes I'm going to be implementing. However, I'm still constantly behind on things and still in need of a lot of training from Predecessor on things that I probably don't know I need training on. Again, I have the systems knowledge and she has the institutional knowledge, so she knows to be expecting certain types of payments that I know nothing about. A lot of that will change as I get the systems under my control, but as the Treasury Manager going on a month now, I still don't have online access to our primary bank. *headdesk*
Because I'm now in charge of the department that was causing all the other departments headaches, I'm still solving all of the problems that I would have been solving had I gotten the Sr Director position, but I'm not being paid that pay rate. I can't tell you how frustrating that is. I figured I'd just be in my department, handling my own things, but so much was taken away from the other departments that they should be handling that I'm still effecting change across multiple departments. I solved a Payroll issue earlier in the week having to do with the company going to a new bank, which they did back in January, so I'm not sure why it's only just coming up. However, I'm pretty sure it's because the Payroll Manager knows I'm in charge now and knew she could bring it to me, which she still would have done had I been her boss instead of her equal co-worker. We solidified a new processing procedure for A/P with the goal of giving them back some of their previous duties that never should have been taken away from them and hoarded within the Treasury realm. And I've already worked out similar processing changes for A/R that the manager over that department is in agreement with.
Overall, I'm kicking ass, but I'm getting worn out in the process.
I sent over the property survey Thursday to Lowe's so they could get it to the city for the fencing permit. Roommate reported that someone was out yesterday who appeared to be taking measurements, so I'm hoping they will be ready to install that soon. I still need to talk to the backyard neighbors that I haven't met yet and inform them of the installation. I've been bad at putting that off.
The solar panels got installed mid-November, but it's been mostly cloudy days. That's just rude. I wanted them installed back in July when I first moved in. Not only am I starting off still getting energy from the electric company, but I wasn't able to switch to a net-metering plan back then, and in the past few months the cost has jumped quite significantly, which means I'm going to get locked into a more expensive plan.
I do finally have all of my staff at work rooting for the changes I'm going to be implementing. However, I'm still constantly behind on things and still in need of a lot of training from Predecessor on things that I probably don't know I need training on. Again, I have the systems knowledge and she has the institutional knowledge, so she knows to be expecting certain types of payments that I know nothing about. A lot of that will change as I get the systems under my control, but as the Treasury Manager going on a month now, I still don't have online access to our primary bank. *headdesk*
Because I'm now in charge of the department that was causing all the other departments headaches, I'm still solving all of the problems that I would have been solving had I gotten the Sr Director position, but I'm not being paid that pay rate. I can't tell you how frustrating that is. I figured I'd just be in my department, handling my own things, but so much was taken away from the other departments that they should be handling that I'm still effecting change across multiple departments. I solved a Payroll issue earlier in the week having to do with the company going to a new bank, which they did back in January, so I'm not sure why it's only just coming up. However, I'm pretty sure it's because the Payroll Manager knows I'm in charge now and knew she could bring it to me, which she still would have done had I been her boss instead of her equal co-worker. We solidified a new processing procedure for A/P with the goal of giving them back some of their previous duties that never should have been taken away from them and hoarded within the Treasury realm. And I've already worked out similar processing changes for A/R that the manager over that department is in agreement with.
Overall, I'm kicking ass, but I'm getting worn out in the process.
