Ridiculous Paper

Ridiculous.  Paper and people do not mix.  I’ve gotten back for the third or fourth time my travel expense report that still needs management signatures.  I have three of the forms with ticket stubs for planes and receipts for hotels and food attached to it.  It’s a mess of paper work that has been all over the country.  It’s worth $1345.88.  I have two other ones that are each worth $3xx.xx and $24x.xx.  I don’t remember the exact amounts.  The issue is that I keep getting back originals.  Not copies.  Originals.  If the packet is lost.  Then I’ve lost $194x.xx for a temporary period until I get copies of everything rounded up again.  Copies since the originals would be lost.

And then there are blue copies and gold copies and white copies.

Ridiculous

Highly distracted so

Highly distracted so I’m making a list of interests today and stuff that I divert my attention into:
Writing
Prime numbers
Reimann Geometry
Starting a new business
SBIR
Astride Technology
Microsectioning
Drawing
DOE software
Visual basic
Photography
Guitar
Electronic music
Sandwiches
Coffee

Someone

Today it is an office game with post it notes and emails with red phosphors.  Please sign off and give to someone with something that you have to print now that won’t be looked at ever again, initial intial.  I ask my boss why I am in the corner because someone couldn’t find it on their desk for three days when I asked someone for it.  Incorrect charge number, I call someone to find out I need to redo the expense with corrected charge number and also change the time sheet using a time sheet correction form that someone says they’ll bring by.  Someone also tells me over the phone that the request for voucher is now late and is an extra hundred dollars and a check can’t be cut by the time I would need it if I were to redo it since it only got to her a few days ago.  I needed to follow up with someone else to make sure that it got done.  Since I didn’t do that I should use my person credit card number, someone says the company doesn’t use theirs and I need to get reimbursed.  

Move music over the speed ice Apollo is all I can do to chill.

Office Quotes

"That was a bit messy. Note to self: No more poppy seed bagels at the desk again." BP 07/05/05

"We're only as good as our management." BP

"It's the system, it's squeltched." MA

"If they don't get this right, things are going to go very bad."

"You’re going to be in Tom Grow’s group, and that group will… grow." JM

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