Wow, my brain is just trying really hard to shut down on me. Thursday night, I had forgotten to set the alarm at all before going to bed. Last night, I didn’t set it, cause it’s Friday. This morning, I woke up at around 6 AM, realizing that I hadn’t set the alarm, so I turned it on, since after trying to think about it, I had no idea what day it was.
So, it finally occurred to me that it is, in fact, Saturday, so I was able to sleep for a while.
Granted, I still have to go into the office for a while and get my desk cleared off and everything filed away that needs to be filed and all that good stuff. Hopefully that will SHUT UP my boss for a while. He’s driving me batty - he wants everything all neat and organized, which is fine, except that I just haven’t had any uninterrupted time to do it - and he is the biggest cause of that.
Now, the good news is that I am going back to the dentist for some more minor (compared to the root canal) work on Monday afternoon - so that will be a short day. One more appointment w/ the good Doc after that and I’m done for 6 months. Hurrah!
So, I basically have 2 3/4 days left of dealing with people that drive me crazy. I realize that none of this should even begin to bother me at this point - I am LEAVING - why should anything get to me! But it’s just not working.
I am having a very hard time convincing the new guy that I don’t know everything. It’s not that I don’t want to share info - it’s that I DON’T HAVE IT.
Another example of things going wrong - the accrual for the pension plan contribution. That was something that Mark had always handled. In the back of my head, I knew it existed, because I had to go get the number from payroll in December for him to make the entry. But it never cemented in my head that “this has to be done once he’s gone” and it was something that Mark just forgot to pass on. It happens. End of story.
Well, it didn’t get done for the end of first quarter. Now that I think about it, I think that we *didn’t* do it quarterly, and just expensed it during the year and at year end we did the accrual just because it was year end. Either way, the new guy ain’t happy that it didn’t get done. I will look at last year’s records and see if it really was quarterly or annual, and if it was annual I will shoot the new guy an email about it and just get the issue off the table.
Mark had his job, I had mine. I tried to learn what I could of Mark’s job, but again, I had my own job to do as well. I don’t mess with capital assets - never have - yet my new boss expects that I should be able to fix whatever happened with the asset file that was uploaded to corporate.
I have no clue how AP works anymore since they changed it to the corporate processing and moved the entire staff away from us. Yet, I am supposed to know how on earth they do everything now. I told him he really needed to talk with the A/P supervisor on their procedures.
Same with payroll - corporate took it over, patted us on the head and said “We’ll take care of it now.” I don’t even know *who* he should talk to on that one.
Because of the many changes since January which have happened with little or no explanation and in rapid succession across multiple departments, I have not been able to keep up with how everything else works, as I have just been trying to keep up with the many changes in how I do *my* stuff, and that has been more than enough!
Well, I had better go get somewhat cleaned up and head into the office and start shredding and filing things. (I seriously think it would be easier to just set everything on fire, but management frowns on that.)
