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Sapphireho · 08-09-2018, 07:14 PM

So it is that time of year here at work when we finalize our budget. I am the sys admin for the budget and reporting system. We have had the same system for 14 budget years now.

The budget staff is stuck as usual. You would expect after 14 years the budget staff would know more about loading and consolidating the budget than the system admin, since I don't load budget, but no. They run to me to fix everything. As I do each year, I try to guide them to learn and do it themselves, but no. My boss tells me, after the budget staff flops around like dying fish for a week, to be around this week to help the budget manager and his staff met their deadlines.

SO they are stuck. They have all the same tools I have, but no, they still can't figure it out. It is pretty simple. Tedious, but simple (like most accounting). They struggle for two weeks and cant get it done. My boss says to fix it. I go in, fix it in a couple hours, and have a 2.3 BILLION dollar budget consolidated and reconciled within 10 bucks (rounding errors).

My boss asks me why the budget staff has such problems every year, and why the process is so complicated according the budget staff. I tell her it is not complicated. I say I don't know why the budget staff can't get it done. Either it IS really complicated and I am just a fucking genius, or the budget staff is stupid as a box of rocks. Pick one. BTW, I am far from a genius.

My work rant for the month.

08-09-2018, 07:14 PM	#47032
Sapphireho Famous Potatoes Join Date: Mar 2016 Drives: '15 ultramarine Location: Idaho Posts: 14,043 Thanks: 5,808 Thanked 19,640 Times in 9,241 Posts Mentioned: 162 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	So it is that time of year here at work when we finalize our budget. I am the sys admin for the budget and reporting system. We have had the same system for 14 budget years now. The budget staff is stuck as usual. You would expect after 14 years the budget staff would know more about loading and consolidating the budget than the system admin, since I don't load budget, but no. They run to me to fix everything. As I do each year, I try to guide them to learn and do it themselves, but no. My boss tells me, after the budget staff flops around like dying fish for a week, to be around this week to help the budget manager and his staff met their deadlines. SO they are stuck. They have all the same tools I have, but no, they still can't figure it out. It is pretty simple. Tedious, but simple (like most accounting). They struggle for two weeks and cant get it done. My boss says to fix it. I go in, fix it in a couple hours, and have a 2.3 BILLION dollar budget consolidated and reconciled within 10 bucks (rounding errors). My boss asks me why the budget staff has such problems every year, and why the process is so complicated according the budget staff. I tell her it is not complicated. I say I don't know why the budget staff can't get it done. Either it IS really complicated and I am just a fucking genius, or the budget staff is stupid as a box of rocks. Pick one. BTW, I am far from a genius. My work rant for the month.