Taking Inventory

This was the first time that I was going to have to be part of taking inventory since I started working for my current company. Not that it is anything particularly new to me. I've been working in accounting for over 22 years and have been doing inventory related tasks lots of time. But with the company I'm working for it's a little different since we also deal with precious metals and gemstones and here taking inventory is enven more important since there is a boatload of cash at stakes.
What was nice that our boss decided not to do the entire invetory on one day but on 2 days. But that meant we had to come in on Saturday for about 5 hours or so.
Day 1 of taking inventory went off without a hitch. Everything pretty much worked according to plan. Had been doing lots of prep work for balancing all the precious metal accounts previously. So that certainly came in helpful. The only thing that made it questionable how long we'll be working was, that with the current flu season we had quite a number of people calling in sick. But at 6 pm on Firday the Junior Boss told us to wrap things up for today and all of us went home.
On Saturday we continued our work and at 11 am we were pretty much done. The boss told us to finish things up and wanted uns to enjoy our easter weekend. He told each and everyone that we had been doing a good job and on top of that we got little bonus for having been part in taking taking inventory. It's really a nice gesture and I really did appreciate it. It's not really about the money the thought is what counts for me way more. That's the time when I absolutely love working for a family sized business. And btw it's not the first time that my boss told me that he really appreciates the way work I do.
When I got home form work at noon, there was no excited cowdog waiting for me at the door. But I pretty much was expecting that. I had already closed and locked the door behind me before Daisy walked out of the bedroom. She has really gotten used to my working schedule and didn't expect me for another couple of hours. But as sson as she realzed that I was here to stay for the day she was quite excited and we spent a quality afternoon together. Would have loved to take her for a long outing at the park, but the bad weatehr didn't quite allow for that.