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You know, sometimes I wonder if the unemployment rate has more to do with people being idiots, than a lack of jobs.

I picked up some stuff from a lady yesterday who wanted to save money by doing her own data entry. Apparently, she's been doing her own books for eight years but now she's getting kinda tired of it. Fair enough. Whatever.

I crack it open today. Okay, things look pretty good. A few things need tidying up but that's year end tidying so that's kinda my job. Then I get to her Receivables and her Bank. OMG!

Instead of entering JUST what she had invoices for and then either leaving the rest of the stuff not posted or posting it to a suspense account so you could actually get a LIST of the things that needed to be looked for, she blithefully went ahead and MADE STUFF UP!!! Uh lady. That's a great way to get arrested for falsifying records!

So now because nothing is detailed i can't even BEGIN to make sense of it. I'm going to have to back out all the stuff she made up and post it PROPERLY so i can at least see what i need to ask her clients for.

JIMMY CRICKET!!!

I don't get it. This seems to be a common thing. People can't or won't sit down and actually THINK about what's in front of them. And work things out systematically.

Still working working working. I was hoping to finish today but it looks like it will be in the morning. I think I'm going to work straight through and go to bed when I've finished the year end review as well. I only have a little bit of petty cash to post and then I can start going over everything and making adjustments.

One... my boss got audited. They've only looked at one year at the moment but so far the ruling is that I am an employee not a subcontract labourer as she has been foisting me off for so many years. Right now they're saying as of June, she has to take deductions from me, which means I probably will be making even LESS than I normally do because I don't imagine she is going to bump my salary to compensate me for the deductions. They have not yet decided if they're going to make it retroactive to the beginning of the year.

I'm not sure how am I going to handle this as normally there is a two week hold on my hours. So for example on June 15, 2011, I will give her an invoice for the hours I worked from May 16, 2011 to May 31, 2011. So does that count as hours that fall under payroll or not? I feel like what I should do is take my next two work days to tidy up my desk and then quit. If I get put on payroll without a rate increase, it means that I'll effectively be working 8hrs and getting paid for 7hrs.

Two... The client that wanted her to do her 2010 taxes had sent a USB key with her year end on it. I uploaded it to my boss' computer last Friday. Today she just started working on it and before I had come into work, she couldn't get the file to open. I got there and the file opened fine. So when I was getting ready to leave today she was all I hope this file opens next time I go to try otherwise you'll be getting a panicked call over the weekend. And I kinda said, well it won't do any good to call me on the weekend because I won't be able to do anything about it. And then I left.

I mean honestly, if she thinks I'm going to RUSH TO HER HOUSE ON MY WEEKEND to deal with her computer problems after the way she treated me, she's more of a moron than I thought. I'm tempted to email the client in case she tries to blame me for how long it takes to finish the lady's stuff.

CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS WOMAN!??!?!?!?!

Below is an excerpt from an email she sent the client who gave her heck for trying to get out of doing her 2010 taxes.

I just looked back at your email file and realize that you have contacted me several times. I was not aware that you had phoned or emailed until this most recent message. I was away for 3 weeks at the beginning of May and before that I have had some temporary staff which has obviously not worked well in terms of communication. I am in a difficult position because Judy has cut her hours back to 2 days a week because of family issues.

WHAT A BIG FAT LIAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Firstly, this is NOT the first time she's heard of these emails or phone calls. Secondly, there IS no temporary help. Thirdly, I did NOT cut my hours back to two days a week. I WAS willing to work from home and she said no. So now I come in three days a week and I work on my own clients the other two days.

If I wasn't in the middle of trying to finish off someone's year end, today I would have gotten up and walked out and NEVER came back.

I'm like beyond hulk angry right now.

and a few more ha ha has!

So! Five years ago, back when I had money and hardly any debt, I approached my boss to ask about acquiring a few of her clients. I only wanted ten and my boss' response was HELL NO! IT'S ALL OR NOTHING BABY!

So fine. I said gimme some info and I'll think about it.

Late last year, when I had no money and lots of debt, she finally coughed up financial statements. Upon perusing them, it was my turn to be all HELL NO!, which I neatly documented in twelve pages that I'm still ever so proud of!

This brings us to TODAY! Today, my boss says to me... I hate living here! I wanna retire LIKE RIGHT NOW! You wanna buy a few clients?????

Amazingly enough, I did not fall off my chair laughing. I just said.... Nope. No money remember? At which my boss was all... well I'd take small payments over time! I again said no.

So now, because she's desperate to move, it sounds like she's going to leave her other clients high and dry, not even bothering to finish out their year. Nice. Real nice.

The really hilarious thing about this whole thing is she COULD have had 30,000 over five years interest free. Instead she wanted 50,000 over three years at twelve percent interest. And now she'll get nothing and one of the big clients that she's taking with her is planning to revamp their structure in the next year or so, which will reduce the amount of work they'll generate. Though I will not be surprised if she keeps charging the same amount anyway.

It'll be interesting to see what she does with the other clients. I mean, she SHOULD be giving them notice so that they have time to find another bookkeeper, especially since she's not going to finish off their year end data work. But knowing her, she'll send them a letter a week before she's planning to move.

Okay, yes. It's too early for the Ides of March but whatever! IT'S MARCH!!!! In three weeks it will be Spring! I hope. Considering the amount of snow we got at the end February, I'll believe it when I see it.

So! An update since I haven't posted anything since January 27th.

( To The Update! )

So I wasted about 90% of my day fixing the screw up my co-worker made with a client's file. And helping her with another client. I give up. I just don't care any more. If my stuff ends up being late because I'm busy helping everyone else, so be it.

( Annoyed )

But now I'm home and I have food so I'm happy again.

Or maybe it's a demon.

Whatever it is, my boss definitely must have SOMETHING looking out for her.

( Accounting Drama! )

So like I said, something or someone is watching over her.

Since I only got two and a half hours sleep last night, I figure if I can stay up until at LEAST 9pm, it should get me back on track for sleeping.

In other news, went over to see the co-op coordinator around 8:15am. Was there for an hour. Brought her up-to-date all the applications and my intent to create a schedule. We talked a bit about how to handle the loud mouth boobs. We both hoped that the Board would step in and just disolved the Committee since I really don't want to have be a referee.

Was about 9:30 by the time I got back to my boss' place. I made myself breakfast and ate it at a leisurely pace. Then from about 11am to 1:30pm, I did the reference checks for the first two applicants we interviewed. Walked back over to the Co-op office and dropped that information off and walked down to the post office. Dropped off the office mail. Walked back. There's my exercise for the day.

From 2:30 - 4:30, I did actual work work! Amazing.

From 4:30 - 5:30 I emailed all the two bedroom applicants I have on file. Will schedule interviews as I hear back from them.

5:30 - current The cleaning lady came over so I cleaned up a bit. That always cracks me up that you have to clean up for your cleaning lady. Right now I am sitting around.

I plan to sit around until I fall asleep.

That is my plan and it is mine and I am proud of it.

So! Didn't get to bed until 4am last night. My own fault this time. Had some stuff that absolutely needed to get finished and I had anticipated being able to do some on Saturday and finish the rest off at a proper hour on Sunday.

Sadly it did not work out that way. Naturally. You would think I would know better by now. Whenever I say, oh! this won't take very long! It ends up taking forever and a day.

I ended up getting up briefly to let the dogs out and to tell my co-worker what to work on and then I went back to bed. I slept until about 3pm. So I feel not too bad but I missed the mail deposit. Oh well, the thing would have probably be slightly late anyway. Now it will just be a day late instead. We'll see what comes of it.

In other news, I have an emergency Membership Committee meeting this evening. Bah. I'm hoping that I can get one other person for interviews. That way I won't have to do interviews. I'll either get to go home or I will stay and update some of the paperwork.