#338 OperaShawn AutomaShawn

Well today was a much better day!

I was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO productive!  OH MY GOD!   

Look, if I *HAVE* to be in the office, there is nothing I love better than a day where I get a poop-load of things done.  Files and folders emptied and re-filled.  Changes, and Excels, and print Jobs and Scans.

Tomorrow is Friday and I believe I'll be able to just coast to 5 pm.

#joy

#058 Paper Crime Scene InvestigaShawn

If P.C.S.I. were a TV show, my office desk would be ground zero for tonight's episode.

I swore yesterday I wasn't gonna bitch and moan about work... but OMG! Today, OMG!

Seems the Auditors will be back next week and so they sent a few requests on Monday (20 examples in total) that they wanted documents for when they arrive next week.  Invoice and Shipping Docs.

Then on Tuesday they added another 10 examples, and another document (Proof of Delivery) for all 30.

Then yesterday they added another 30 examples (total now of 60)

And then today, as I was collating the last 4 examples, they said they didn't want Shipping Docs and PODs.  They wanted Proofs of Payment.

Thanks for that.

So I've now printed over 2500+ pages, and approx 1000 are now not needed.

Fortunately we have a rule of re-using single printed pages for anything internal and 'scrap' pages are used to print needed documents when they will only be used internally.

Of course everything that got printed for the Auditors was on fresh paper, as we do not want any used pages going out with any info other than what they require.  Thankfully those 1000+ wasted pages WILL be used again, but at the end of the day it was a WASTE of paper!   Not to mention the time wasted, not just by myself  but 2 other people in Finance here and 6 people at our other offices across Canada.

So yea, my desk looks like a cyclone hit a filing cabinet, stacks of paper everywhere. It's basically a crime scene of wasted toner and paper.

I'm sorry Trees. I did not mean to diminish your existence. I swear we will re-use every last page you provided.

#030 An AutomaShawn Limerick

There once was a lad from Nantucket,

Whose job he wished he could chuck it.

Printing invoices all day,

For the Auditors' fray;

At the end of the day he said 'suck it!'.

So far this week I've printed over a ream's worth of invoices and used  300 paper clips.

Knock wood no paper-cuts.

#029 AutomaShawn II

Oh my god!  Today was yesterday on a loop.

In every way, I am now experiencing my own Groundhog Day.

I fear for tomorrow. 

Unlike yesterday however, I managed to squeeze in my lunch today, between 2:45PM and 3:30PM. And I will admit I felt a certain level of satisfaction when, as I was exiting the office and passed the VP and his Assistant and they asked "Leaving early today?" and I replied with "Actually, just going to lunch." to which the VP said, "Ah, the Auditors. I hope your Manager knows this, if not he should." 

Oh, he knows, and his boss knows as well.

For now, it's time to eat, catch a little TV and off to bed to watch some netflixed Supernatural... 

#028 AutomaShawn

Well it was fun at work today...

As it is, I'm already doing all of my tasks, along with those of the Accounts Receivable department (it's a one person dept...) as the regular person is on vacation this week.

That in itself is manageable, but when you add to that, the fact that our head office in the US has sent up auditors that keep on asking for the Sun, Moon and the Stars to be delivered to them, with a paper copy and an electronic copy if you don't mind, oh and can we have those 3 hours ago? And here's another list.... and another and another.

I think I printed enough invoices, waybills, proofs of delivery and copies of cancelled cheques to wallpaper Versailles!

And the great news is that this was day one of at least three more. Goodie!

My favourite part of the day was explaining to the Auditors that often what they keep asking for, is not available, or simply does not exist. And then tell them again 30 minutes later...

...and then 30 minutes later...

At 3:15pm I noticed, hey! I haven't taken lunch yet. Being the dutiful auto-bot I had not noticed the day go by. So I got up, walked down the hall and told my boss I'd be leaving an hour early on Friday to cover for my lunch today.

...and then I went back to the conference room and told the Auditors that their latest request could not be fulfilled because the documents don't exist.