A full, rich day...

That's the only way I can desribe today's day at work. I knew that we would have to prepare the cash register for real-live use. But before that could happen we had to help my co-worker who had fallen behind with the merchandise orders. Having to do it in a new system takes of course substantially longer, at least in the beginning. And she was with us in the business meeting with us and that didn't exactly help either.
So of course I offered to help her. The first couple of orders weree all standard and there were no problems with them. But as soon as it came to orders with mechandise discounts, I screwed up royally. The sales representative called me up and told me about the mistake. I immedialely realized my mistake. I was still with my head in the way we used to do it in the old syste, and the new system just workds differently. Since the orders had already gone to your logistics centre I tried to fix it with a shrot email. Than I realized that wasn't gonna solve the issue. So I canceld those 4 orders. Right in the middle when I was doing that, the logistic center called. the CFO gave the call to me and I told them, not to send out the merchandise and that that would be receiving a cancelation of the delivery notes and that they would be getting new delivery notes.
After that I cancelled all the delivery notes and redid them completely again. It goes without saying that this really increased my stress level substantially, although none of my co-worker would have been able to tell that. But in the end I succeeded fixing my screw-up.
Next I had to deal with paying outstanding vendor invoices. That was pretty much straingt forward. At least so I thought. But my old software just decided to quit on me while I was doing that and it took me about 15 minutes to get back to where I was. And than I had to do the entire thing of course over again. Didn't make me a happy camper. But in the end I succeeded. The entire thing had to be done today, since the CFO was going on a 2-day vacation the next day.
Up next was the cash register. The CFO had delegated the responsibility for all things regard the cash register itself and the implementation the new software to me. Not that I mind additional responsibilities, but having to do that within a couple hours...can be a little stressful. At first I recorded the previous month in the old software and it worked without a hitch. And I had accounted for the 1 cent difference in no time.
Next up was the opening balance in the new software. This was pretty much straingt forward. I entered it and saved the information. If the date should be flawed for some reason , I don't have the slightest clue on how to fix that. I was ready to lean back and go home. But the devil never sleeps, does he? Nope, he doesn't. What you know, a customer showes up at 5.10 pm and want's to buy merchandise. So we have to enter it in the new system. And nobody has even done a real-live test with it so far. And the support-hotline of the software has already gone home. I thought, great...just what I need. So I fire up the software and start entering the date. Luckily I had tested that during the test phase. But of course I didn't work the way I planned it. Than I realized that with that customer the price-list that has to be used hasn't been saved. But that was a very easy fix. From that point on it was pretty much straigtr forward. Until to the point where the payment had been recorded in the software. The most important thing is, that an invoice comes out of the printer, because that's a must-requirement of the government and the punishment for not doing so can be quite expensive. But nothing happens...at least at first. I thought...oh fuck, what I'm gonna do now...but than the printer started to print out the invoice. And than I remembered, that it took a little longer to print the invoice from the cash register over the WIFI connection. In the end it worked out without problems.
But that time I juset packed up and went home. I really didn't want to deal with any new problems that could be arising. While I was on my way home, Something about the opening balance of the cash register kept bothering me. Yes I did enter the value I was given my the CFO, but for some reason I dodn't think that was right. But I was mentally so dead at that time, that I couldn't think logically anymore. And there wouldn't have been anything I could have done anyways. So I tried to put it out of my hand...with rather less success. So I picked up a good bottle of red wine on my way home. That should definitely get me down from my stress level and should help me relax.