State of teh bookkeeper

[ravena_kade]

I have been at this job a month. I'm bored most of the day. The boss has only been in 3 days since I have come on board and she is a terrible remote trainer. I tried to get her to use instant messenger or teams and she doesn't like them. Fine... you are paying me to listen to pod casts and chat with my coworkers. I find the chatting important as I am building a relationship with a team. I am promised training next week. I look forward to that. I want to be able to put bookkeeper on my resume in 3 years.

I was give a project today that the boss thought would take a long time. I had to go through all the loans and find ones that were past due and delinquent. There are several loan excel sheets and the order is by loan number. She expected me to review hundreds of lines. She uses excel as a way to display data. Sigh. I copied the data from the 4 sheets into an empty sheet and then tossed a filter on it to sort by overdue days and then copied that data into another sheet and presented it to her. I know people who could have made it prettier, but my data was good... and fast. I may hate excel (it bores me) but I know it is an analytical tool, not just a pretty grid to hang some numbers on.

So far I have earned 9 hours and 17 minutes of PTO. Every 2 weeks I earn 8.66666666666666 hours. I have small things I would like to do and Dad needs Dr appointments.

So far I may be bored but it is still nicer than the big bank. And I get to help lost people when I go upstairs to use the restroom...so many lost elders looking for the cardiac wing.

I have GOOD walking shoes and my feet and legs are feeling better just after 4 days. I need to get in shape as I want to be walking beaches barefoot soon.

Still jealous and miffed that Dad gets to go to the outer banks beaches and I can't... but I know I couldn't not have handled the family now with the extra chaos. He is also away when there are lots of things I wanted to do, but I won't leave the cat and the house alone. I told him he is to bring me a shell from the beach or I will be Mad. (If my sister is smart they can probably buy one at a gift shop) I do want him to go because we don't think the cousin's will be traveling anymore where the missile sister has the blood cancer... it's going to be a long road for them. And I don't have much vacation with this job. Next year maybe I'll do a couple of long weekends with him...maybe Chicago, maybe Vegas.

I have been thinking of getting a present for myself with some of the severance package before I pay down all of my debt... expect the mortgage...I long have a mortgage burning party. I know she fire performers that could help me with that big time ;-) I have enough jewelry. I thought about replacing a sword I regret giving away, but I think that company had a fire. We shall see.

Comments

[disneydream06]

YAY to you for simplifying and just getting things done.
Why is it the younger generations who don't like to work more then they have to also have to make things complicated. :o :o :o

YAY for helping lost people.
The other night I was going on break at 5 am and I met a lady in the hallway and she was like, I am looking for the ICU and there is nobody up here to help me. I really wanted to say, it's 5 am, who did you think was going to be around to help you besides the fact we don't have people up on the floors to help with directions. But I took her under my wing and helped her find her way, which actually happened to be my station. lol...

After 42 years, I earn 11.69 hours of PTO time per pay period. :(
Hugs, Jon

[ravena_kade]

11.69. hours...I wonder if that will be y next bump up. I was told hours increase with time. If it's less then I'll leave once I hit 62. I'd like to do some things with my Dad and not worry about loosing PTO for every dr appointment.

Also, no wonder why hospitals can't keep staff. The people must all burn out.

[disneydream06]

Sad to say, I would never encourage somebody to go into healthcare any more. :o

We get a lot of younger people that come here because it's the World Famous Mayo Clinic, but then they get to Rochester and realize how little there is to do here, and they move on after a couple of years. :o

[ravena_kade]

Yeah, I wouldn't recommend it either. Many patients treat you like shit, you get exposed to all diseases, and you are overworked because the management just cares about profits. It really has to be an ingrained calling now.

I know with me, the earning PTO didn't sound bad in my interview, they just didn't tell me I had to earn the federal holidays.

[disneydream06]

WOW, you totally see the truth about healthcare careers. :(

Big surprise they failed to mention the holidays. :o

[chris_warrior]

can i just be happy for you getting some time away from your dad? with someone else caring for him? (as long as they're gonna be responsible and watch his diet). i think maybe it's a decent stay-cation for you, even though i know you would have loved NC.

[palusbuteo]

Sorry to hear work is mostly boring but hey a paycheck and PTO. and like you said, OK, so you're being paid to listen to podcasts.

Also good to hear about the comfy shoes that your feet don't hurt as much. Soooooo important to have comfy shoes.

2 years ago when I started back at the printing office, since of course we're wearing historical clothing that includes 18th century leather shoes and I hadn't worn this pair every day for a very long time, and, without insoles OMFG my feet would almost spasm in pain by the afternoon.
But I managed to find insoles that fit and now it's pretty comfy, but glad to be out of them by the end of the day.

Also sorry I can't help your commute and I'm gonna be back on the rails in April and my friend who now works for the T sends me updates of the Chaos du Jour and it's not helping my stress levels at all. But I also really don't want to drive in either.

[malterre]

Sorry the stress has just switched lanes, but yay Dad-free time?

[brickhousewench]

I copied the data from the 4 sheets into an empty sheet and then tossed a filter on it to sort by overdue days and then copied that data into another sheet and presented it to her.

And that probably only took you a couple of minutes.

If you're bored at work, could you do something like sign up for online classes that you can add to your resume? Something like LinkedIn Learning?

Still jealous and miffed that Dad gets to go to the outer banks beaches and I can't...

Well poop, I know how much you were looking forward to that trip last year. =(

I thought about replacing a sword I regret giving away, but I think that company had a fire.

Starfire did have a fire back in January, I remember seeing the GoFundMe on Facebook. If you want to buy a sword, theirs are about the heaviest ones out there. You can find much better quality for about the same price from other vendors.

[ravena_kade]

Sadly Linked In Learning doesn't make it past the work firewalls and the hospital.

I may look around at other sword vendors. I was looking to replace something I had for sentimental reasons. There are others I like, more refined, but it would most likely be a wall decoration. When I go to faire I like to carry the camera and a big lens and sword sometimes bounce off each other. It's a whim that comes and goes.

[brickhousewench]

Sadly Linked In Learning doesn't make it past the work firewalls and the hospital.

Well poop.