Warning: This post involves a lot of venting and whining about my job. BEWARE!
In an effort to consolidate resources once again, my company decided about a month ago to give me a couple of the responsibilities of one of the employees in finance who left the company. These include credit card reconciliation and payroll. The credit card is a little stressful, but at least doable. On the other hand, in payroll I generally have no idea what I am looking at. Even though my supervisor and I are working on it together, neither of us has the experience needed to make this transition without a little extra help. It seems like every time we come up to a payroll, we have to go back and forth with the HR companies before we figure out who is getting paid what.
Then, there is the fact that Erin and I have different ideas of how the spreadsheets and everything should work, and I hate feeling like I'm inserting myself with her, but I also don't want the information to be recorded improperly.
Lastly, it doesn't help that recently they are continuing to let people go every payroll. First it was Rob. Then last time it was Dan and Carm. Now, it's four people in Canada. All of the terminations have something different going on with them, and we have to figure out how to treat them. It doesn't help that many of them have been in Canada, which means a lot of rules and regulations about terminations according to Canada's socialist government.
Basically, blame Canada.
I know that having this as a skill set will make me more marketable in the future when I am looking for a job (I guess if it ever came down to it, I might be sort of qualified to do payroll or something for a small company), but in the mean time it is frustrating and makes me realize why (not that I ever ever would have considered it) I did not major in finance during college. It also makes me glad to think that I might only have to do this for four or so months if I end up leaving WRT when I go back to school.
ughhhhhh.... thanks for letting me let that out of my system.
1 comment:
Ahhh Corporate America! I know you did not sign up for this job but I really do think it is in your best interest to gain the knowledge of finance and even, yes, payroll. When you open your own company this experience will help you know how to handle everything form terminations and HR to paying wages (of course). Because you are such a strong woman we all know you will be very successful in your future, anything you take form this experience will help you on your journey. Just keep going and see the positive sides to it... I never thought I would enjoy tracking rail cars! LOL! LOVE!
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