I need a new job in the worst way and for once, I'm going to take full responsibility for this fact.
I have no idea how on earth I ever actually got this job. I deal with numbers all day everyday. I am HORRIBLE with numbers - a fact I've known my entire life. We are talking about a girl who chose her college major based on the fact that there was only ONE math class required and then took FIVE semesters of sign language to opt out of it (just as a PS, I LOVED my major and wish I could find a job in it now).
I swear I have dyslexia when it comes to adding and subtracting (let alone anything more complex) and to top it off, I can't find my mistakes when I make them.
When the doctor's wife is out of town, I do the paychecks. If there is anywhere I should be meticulously correct, it is on paychecks. I check and double check to make sure all of the times are right. I used to ask someone else to look at them to find my mistakes if I thought there were any, but in the past I have been severely chastised by the doctor for doing this as it is apparently against some employment rule for everyone to know what everyone else makes (and yet, everyone still does...).
I've just been told that on the paychecks I did on Tuesday, I made a TEN hour error on an employee's check in HER FAVOR (doubtless anyone would have noticed if I had shorted her on accident). I knew there was a mistake but I COULD NOT FIND IT so being me, I figured I was just being paranoid and went ahead and printed the checks anyway.
Sigh...the last thing this person needs right now is to be overpaid one week and then shorted on her next check to make up for it. I feel so guilty that I didn't look at the time card just one more time...and stupid that I couldn't find anything wrong when I'd already looked at it FIVE times.
That is why I need a new job - one that is based more on creativity than cold, hard math facts. I also want voicemail. That's not too much to ask, is it?
3 comments:
you are WAYYY to hard on yourself.......and WHO is this mean person to make you feel so guilty??? she should be flogged!! ; )
I guess I need to come down there and do some serious shaking up of things. Quit being so hard on yourself. I sure hope your rec management major pays off sometime soon, for your sake.
Is it really being hard on myself when I'm telling the 100% truth??
All I know is that it's a good thing the mistake I made was on the check of the one girl in the office who actually likes me. I can't imagine the repercussions there would have been had it been someone else's check.
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