Plays Well With Others

Office politics …

Not at all of my jobs, but at a few, I’ve found that there are certain people that get off on creating little procedures and rules for people to follow. Personally I think its self serving on their part, trying to make themselves “shine” in the office for putting together organization tools to help out the office. Sometimes they really are helpful and most of the time they are lame.

As a bookkeeper for a grocery store, I was in charge of about a million dollars in cash and checks per week. Thats the money that passed through my hands and into the deposit bags. Now, as you can imagine, handling that much money means that you have to fill out TONS of paperwork, and follow many more procedures on how to properly handle the money, so nothing would be missing and you wouldnt get a bullet in your head.

For the most part, the paperwork and procedures for each store were basically the same, so that every bookkeeper could work in every store and know how to do the books. Of course, every store also had a head bookkeeper in charge of that stores books and of course, I got the store with the most organized lady in the world. Now, she ended up becoming a friend of mine, but during those years at the store, there were times I just wanted to run her over with my car. She insisted that all paperwork be filled out with a certain brand of ultra fine tip, ballpoint, black ink pen. No one cared except for her and if you didnt use the write pen, she’d leave you a long, long note bitching you out about using the wrong pen. Then there was the paperclip thing. I swear each day I’d go through ten boxes of clips, because according to her everything had to have a clip on it in the upper left hand corner … not the right, not the side. Then you had to put rubberbands around the sealed plastic bags that brinks collects, but you had to wrap the rubber band around twice and it had to end up in the center of the bag. Anyhow, procedures dont bother me, its all the shitty ass anal retentive stuff that bothers me. Of course, in the end, you just go along with it to avoid the shitty notes. It sucks.

Well, what brought this up is that as my new job they also have this paper clip obsession. Actually its a mix of regular paper clips and those black clips with the silver arms that bend up and down. Ugh. They insist on everything having a separate clip on it, and certain paperwork has to have a black clip. No black clip and the job will be returned to you. If the silver clips are on the wrong papers, it comes back to you. For the first few weeks, I was getting jobs back every five minutes due to clips being in the wrong places. I hate shit like that. Anyhow, today my boss comes over, kind of laughing and saying that I should try to hold back on the cllps a little, because now Im using so many that she ran out of room on her desk for all the clips she’s pulling off. Ugh. Just can’t find a good middle ground, I’m telling you. I wasn’t born to be a secretary … I’m a designer damn it.

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