You have GOT to be kidding me
Nov. 19th, 2003 02:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dixon_greenI mentioned yesterday that audit (work) is being fussy. I found out exactly how fussy today.
Because of the widening discovery of mutual fund industry problems, my employer has decided it needs to prove that it hasn't been doing late night trading. Proving a negative, how lovely. For the manual stuff, this is already proven. So now we have to do it for all the automated stuff.
We have to verify that every IP and FL traded for the correct trade date - no back dating allowed. By hand. Back to the start of the calendar year. By Friday.
We had had to recall tons of stuff from offsite storage, and temps will be coming in to help. Anyone with spare time is expected to pitch in and help.
This is mind-numbingly tedious. BUT, it means I can work as many hours as I want to for the rest of the week. Any extra income is welcome, so this is how I will spend my afternoons for the rest of the week.
I picked up my copy of Two Towers last night. I looked over the collector's box set (I bought the collector's edition last year, 'cause I wanted the National Geographic disk), but decided to give it a pass. A statuette and a DVD detailing the creation of the statuette were not incentive enough to shell out another $35. I picked up some other DVDs as well, the proceeded to confuse the hell out of the cashier. Coupon for 10% off up to five regular priced DVDs and CDs (so not Two Towers), and 85 Best Buy Bucks from McDonalds. Because of the sheer number of Bucks, a manager had to be called over, at which point I also pointed out that my coupon was for four of my items, not just one (I paid attention when she scanned everything in). After getting everything corrected, I ended up paying about $6 total.
I think I've fixed the skeleton for my CG puppy, and tomorrow I'll beat my head against the weighting issues. Tonight, SCA, business meeting, and it sounds like it could be unpleasant. I'm still far enough out of the loop that I don't know how bad it might be, but as a past autocrat, I know it could be uncomfortable.
Because of the widening discovery of mutual fund industry problems, my employer has decided it needs to prove that it hasn't been doing late night trading. Proving a negative, how lovely. For the manual stuff, this is already proven. So now we have to do it for all the automated stuff.
We have to verify that every IP and FL traded for the correct trade date - no back dating allowed. By hand. Back to the start of the calendar year. By Friday.
We had had to recall tons of stuff from offsite storage, and temps will be coming in to help. Anyone with spare time is expected to pitch in and help.
This is mind-numbingly tedious. BUT, it means I can work as many hours as I want to for the rest of the week. Any extra income is welcome, so this is how I will spend my afternoons for the rest of the week.
I picked up my copy of Two Towers last night. I looked over the collector's box set (I bought the collector's edition last year, 'cause I wanted the National Geographic disk), but decided to give it a pass. A statuette and a DVD detailing the creation of the statuette were not incentive enough to shell out another $35. I picked up some other DVDs as well, the proceeded to confuse the hell out of the cashier. Coupon for 10% off up to five regular priced DVDs and CDs (so not Two Towers), and 85 Best Buy Bucks from McDonalds. Because of the sheer number of Bucks, a manager had to be called over, at which point I also pointed out that my coupon was for four of my items, not just one (I paid attention when she scanned everything in). After getting everything corrected, I ended up paying about $6 total.
I think I've fixed the skeleton for my CG puppy, and tomorrow I'll beat my head against the weighting issues. Tonight, SCA, business meeting, and it sounds like it could be unpleasant. I'm still far enough out of the loop that I don't know how bad it might be, but as a past autocrat, I know it could be uncomfortable.
