Having been 2 weeks on vacation is just AWESOME. Even if I just spent it all at home, spending quality time with Daisy. And yes I didn't get anything done that I had planned on getting done. But on the other hand 2 weeks of pure relaxation after haven had a vacation for 13 month was definitely urgently needed.
As fun as that was, coming back to work after 2 weeks...not so much fun. On Sunday it occured to me that I really wasn't looking forward having to go back to work, although I do enjoy my job. But staying home, well that is something that I could get quickly used to. Esepcially since I still have 50 vacation days left.
I got to work around 7 am looked at my desk...and the first thing that crossed my mind was...that I just wanted to turn around and head back home. In the 2 weeks I had been in vacation nobody had done anything. They left pretty much everything for me. I found a ton of printouts, notes and very urgent stuff, that nobody dealt with it either. My desk looked pretty much like a bomb had exploded. It took my half of my workday to get an idea what all neded to be done and get some order into the chaos. And as a good accountant I categorized it according to the most urgent and started working through that pile. While stuff that has to do with legal matters requires more time, I was surpirsed that I was making very good progress entering the bank statements for the past 2 weeks for the German Sub-Company. While of course other things were painfully slow. Well I know my co-worker tried to to his best. But he doesn't have the experience and he certainly isn't a subsitute for me. And the boss told me that he is very happy, that the only "true" Operative Accountant of the company is back.
But it was one of these days, the deeper you dig and the more things you question...the more things that went either paratially or entirely wrong turned up. So I do have the next 2 to 3 weeks already planned out. To get procedure of the outstanding payments back on track. On top of the the Junior Boss called me in and gave me ahead notice that I will be solely responsible to streamline the procedure of that outstand payments and I will be solely in charge of legal matters regarding dealing with delinquent customers. And if that wouldn't be enough I will be in charge to set up the automated payment of supplier invoces. That only becaus the Junior Boss was so impressed with the proceudre, the set up and the implementation of the automated payment system with customers.
Well, that is a lot of work. But on the other hand it's fun having to deal with so many different aspects of accounting and being able to change procedures around as need arises without having to ask for permisson. As far as the boss is concerned he wants to see results, he doesn't care what needs to be done in order to get them. While this is a stressfull job at times, for me it is mostly fun...and I probably wouldn't like it any other way. I do love being an Opperative Accountant and I do love challanges at work. Certainly keeps your mind and your focus sharp.
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