Wednesday, December 29, 2004

So I’ve been planning to close the December books today, which is a day early. I mentioned that to my boss last week before he left for his long vacation - we talked about a few issues and that was that.

This morning I checked my voice mail to find a frantic call from my boss - apparently we were supposed to close out yesterday. But because I’m not officially the finance officer, just the acting finance officer, I’m not on the email list and I never got that word. Nice.

So instead of a leisurely close out today, I need to have it done yesterday. Not nice.

The one thing that has always driven me completely nuts about my bosses is the lack of communication. This one is usually better, but he forgets to tell me stuff or forward emails all the time still. It’s maddening to have to pick up the pieces when he “forgets.”

LATER: I finished close-out about an hour ago and the reports were printing when my printer just stopped. Turns out the black toner was empty. The good news is that the toner lasted a year. The bad news is that we didn’t have a replacement cartridge. So I just got back from Staples where I purchased two toner carts. Upon replacement of the toner, the printer cranked up and printed a beautiful test page. But alas, my reports were eliminated from the print queue and I am unable to reprint them until tomorrow because close out locks us out of the system for a day. *sigh*