Day 504...

Ok, no positive talk today...unless you want to consider that I'm positively pissed. This is a rant session, plain and simple. I need to VENT.

So, I am responsible for Accounts Payable, right? That means that I cut all the checks for the company. Period. That's my territory. And that includes the petty cash checks for all four locations.

This past week, we had a crew go out to a gated community, and they took 20 bucks with them for the gate fee. Problem was, it wound up being 30 bucks, because they were met out there by another crew from our Athens location, and since we now had two trucks, the fees doubled.

Instead of the Athens crew going back to Athens for the 15 bucks, the guy took it out of his pocket and got reimbursed when he got back to Athens....from ATHENS' petty cash box. So now, there's 20 bucks out of Lithonia's box, and 10 out of Athens'. But it's for a Lithonia ticket.

The nazi that keeps the Lithonia box balanced kept trying to tell me that I needed to add that 10 bucks to Lithonia's box, because it was a Lithonia ticket. I kept telling her that it needed to be added to Athens' PC report to reimburse Athens, because the cash came out of their box. She went to my supervisor, who did not...repeat...did NOT come tell me I did it wrong. (I've been doing this for 6 years, now, btw...)

So this morning, I go give her the PC check for Lithonia, and she tells me I cut it wrong...it's 10 bucks short. I thought we were freaking done with this already! So I tell her no, it's not....and we start going round and round...again. I turn to walk out of her office, and she calls me dense. DENSE!

OK, sister...NOW who's being unprofessional, huh? WTF???!!!???

Holy cow. I told her that I may be dense, but at least I wasn't RUDE. I didn't come try to tell her how to do her billing....she doesn't need to tell me how to do my payables!

She actually followed me back across the hall into my office to try to convince me to recut this check. And when I said no, she took it to the BIG boss. Actually interrupted a meeting to take it to him...over ten freakin' bucks!!! Holy cow!!! She thinks she's entitled to call everybody's shots because she's been here since God was a child, so therefore she's the only one who has any sense.

My satisfaction came from the fact that she came out of that meeting, tail tucked between her legs, and went straight back to her office. I was NOT told to recut the check, thank you...

...Have I mentioned just how much I love my boss?