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Author Topic: #*%&! THIS is why I do things MYSELF!  (Read 861 times)
Katie G
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« on: October 06, 2004, 07:55:13 pm »

Well, my goose is cooked, all right.

A/P has lost paperwork I sent over.  I KNOW I made copies of it, but it's not in the file where it belongs.  Now I have someone waiting on a reimbursement check and I have no backup!  

Stuff like that I file as soon as it happens so I can put my hands on it.

I think I know what happened.  There was a lot of confusion at the time this went down (five people in an office arguing about how this should be done) and I'm pretty sure that the copies went in the folder with the originals.  So bossie was going to take the paperwork over to the accounting head honcho's office to clear it up and then take the paperwork over to A/P instead of bringing it back to me to take over.  Bless him, he honestly *thought* he was doing me a favor.

I got a call from A/P a few days ago that there was something not filled in correctly (#%$#, this is why *I* like to do them *myself!*) and they were sending it back.  Well, it must have gotten lost in the interoffice system (I SAID I'd go and pick it up myself, but they had sent it out already.)  No envelope has shown up.  Should have been here Tuesday.  So, the copies are AWOL, the *originals* are AWOL and I'm up a certain tributary without a means of propulsion.

Two lessons learned today:

1.  Never take your eyes off a piece of paper that's in any way important.
2.  Delegation only works downward.

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« Reply #1 on: October 07, 2004, 01:06:04 pm »

Commiserations, Didface.  These things just happen - and they "always" happen with the most important matters.  Well,  being the true professional that you are, you will just learn from it as you have said.

Tomorrow's another day.

Raindance

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« Reply #2 on: October 07, 2004, 02:27:26 pm »

So sorry to hear that Didface.  At least you are taking a lesson from this and pressing on.  Bossie had good intentions, but on things like this, those good intentions normally mean more work in the end for us.

Hugs!  Hoping today is a better day.

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« Reply #3 on: October 07, 2004, 02:40:00 pm »

I've learned over the years to never give all my copies of anything away..........especially with the bunch I work with/for now.  Things always get lost, misplaced, etc.  And that habit has earned me the designation of "go to" person.  I have one boss who, when he asks if I kept a copy, just gets a blank stare from me.  

As they say Did, the road to &*(( is paved with good intentions.  Don't you just wish sometimes that they didn't try to help?  I've slowly trained my guys to understand that when I want/need help, I'll ask for it.  Until then, don't touch anything that is my responsibility after they give it to me to handle.  And when they try to handle it before giving it to me, I fuss and tell them to at least let me know they're doing it before they start.  Sometimes I still get stuff to clean up after they've tried to get it done, but at least now they know they can ask me how or where something is before things get to out of hand when they want to do it themselves.  And here lately, its turned into "what do you need from me to do this?" instead of I need you to get this together for me.  

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