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wakeiseiyoWell, I anticipated a bump in the road at some point. I think it was today.
What do you get when you have a supervisor with no teaching abilities who works things out as she goes along, and a temp who has no clue about the company's finer workings OR accounts payable procedures?
Yeah. An irritated sup and a month's worth of spreadsheeting gone to shit from poor communication. [Although she didn't yell at me for screwing up, she was just frustrated it happened. She acknowledges as much as I do that she isn't all that great at communication, and I readily agree I'm still too darn new to go it alone just yet.]
On the bright side, it was a spreadsheet that the vendor has been such a bitch about that we have most of the backup handy, or the ACTUAL AP department does [god forbid they do most of the invoice tracking themselves].
So it seems that as I'm slowly learning to wear these strange new hats, there seem to be some adjustments to be made around the brim.
... I need something stronger than cider right now. -.-;;
*thud*
Don't get me wrong, I still love the people and the fact that it is NEVER boring, but godDAMN is it hard to learn a system when your teacher doesn't have a lesson plan. I may ask her to go back to writing instructions on Post-Its a bit longer, until I make SURE I get things through my thick little skull. This is where it's great I CAN work independently, and sucks because I keep TRYING to. Oy.
Good thing I took a short lunch, did a LOT of breathing exercises to keep calm, and left a quarter to 5. (Though being left alone with the office for 2 hours gave me a lot of practice with taking phone messages. And now that I have email, I could type them instead of trying to scribble-and-re-handwrite postits.)
All in all, things are still going well, I think.
What do you get when you have a supervisor with no teaching abilities who works things out as she goes along, and a temp who has no clue about the company's finer workings OR accounts payable procedures?
Yeah. An irritated sup and a month's worth of spreadsheeting gone to shit from poor communication. [Although she didn't yell at me for screwing up, she was just frustrated it happened. She acknowledges as much as I do that she isn't all that great at communication, and I readily agree I'm still too darn new to go it alone just yet.]
On the bright side, it was a spreadsheet that the vendor has been such a bitch about that we have most of the backup handy, or the ACTUAL AP department does [god forbid they do most of the invoice tracking themselves].
So it seems that as I'm slowly learning to wear these strange new hats, there seem to be some adjustments to be made around the brim.
... I need something stronger than cider right now. -.-;;
*thud*
Don't get me wrong, I still love the people and the fact that it is NEVER boring, but godDAMN is it hard to learn a system when your teacher doesn't have a lesson plan. I may ask her to go back to writing instructions on Post-Its a bit longer, until I make SURE I get things through my thick little skull. This is where it's great I CAN work independently, and sucks because I keep TRYING to. Oy.
Good thing I took a short lunch, did a LOT of breathing exercises to keep calm, and left a quarter to 5. (Though being left alone with the office for 2 hours gave me a lot of practice with taking phone messages. And now that I have email, I could type them instead of trying to scribble-and-re-handwrite postits.)
All in all, things are still going well, I think.
