Tuesday, September 28, 2004

I just got a call from my boss on my cell phone. I barely heard the phone ringing in the living room since I’ve been in the bedroom. I was brushing my teeth and getting ready to hit the hay early to make up for the late football night last night.

Turns out we were supposed to close out the books today. HUH? I never got an email about that. Apparently, he got a phone call from HQ on Friday with that news and forgot to tell me.

*pause to answer the phone again*

Yeah, that was him again. Things aren’t balanced so he can’t close out until he figures out where about $250 came from. There’s a transfer in the system that we have no supporting documents for in our files. I didn’t do any transfers this month - he did them all, so I can’t help him, but he still keeps asking me about them. I asked if we could close out in the morning and he said no, it has to be done today. Of course, assuming he can find that random $250 doesn’t mean it’s a slam dunk that he can “push the button” - the past few months we’ve had to have the system techie logout the folks who got kicked out of the program without logging out. It’s a weird glitch that when the network gets unstable we get kicked out of the financial system, but the system shows us as still logged in, even though we log in and out again several times after the kick out. And no one else can be logged in except the one person who is going to “push the button.” I’m thinking that the techie isn’t in his office right now and that close out won’t happen until tomorrow AM anyway. But that’s the irked pessimist in me talking.

Anyway, he forgot to tell me that we needed to close out early. I could have done it today easily - I only had one other task to complete that I put off for tomorrow because I thought we had a couple more days. He remembered after he got home and he went back to the office to do it.

I love my boss, but his forgetfulness is a pain in the rear. He forgets a lot of things. I’ve learned that I have to repeat myself several times when I need for him to remember important things. He’s always been a little forgetful; I remember LW complaining about it when I first started, but we think it’s gotten worse in the last year.

So, I’m waiting for him to call me back now, which means I can’t go to bed until close out is done. *sigh* He should have called me as soon as he remembered - I would have rather gone back to the office to be real help than to sit by the phone and be no help.

UPDATE (Wed 10:00am): He never called me back last night. I fell asleep holding the phone and kept waking up all night with possible scenarios of where that money came from. When I got in this morning he told me that someone at HQ cleared out the account and he thinks that it was the result of being kicked out of the system while doing a transfer - those types of transactions are invisible in the system, so it’s not something you’ll be able to see like a regular voucher. The gist is that close out is done and he left a little before midnight.