Friday, 10 February 2017

TGIF

Today has been an exercise in frustration.

I'm not even sure how to put it into words, but I'll try. I spent about 1.5 hrs this morning confirming that I had listed all the corrects documents from the Disclosure I was working on Thursday into the Excel Worksheet. Then I spent about 10 minutes trying to remember how to make an Excel Worksheet print properly (if you don't use the information, you'll lose it.)

After that was done, I was tasked with the job of copying and scanning another, smaller, disclosure that we had gotten for a different client. Because the thicker manila letter tabd\s don't go through the system easily, I had to carefully replace the manila ones with these pink ones we made. Once that was done, I finally got to copying it - it was going fine until the paper jammed, three times! It wasn't until I was comparing the copy to the original that I realized some documents were actually missing in the copy. All that work, and it didn't even come out properly.

Unfortunately I was unable to rectify this as I had to run to catch a bus to my paying job. Mona was fine with recopying the original, saying she's made this mistake before as well. I just feel terrible because the time I was supposed to be saving by taking care of this job ended up being wasted since Mona had to do it anyways.

I'm also very nervous for the next two weeks since Mona will be gone and the new girl won't have as much training as any of us would like before she needs to take the helm.

But for this weekend, I'm going to enjoy having it off - and potentially sleeping in!

2 comments:

  1. Maryrose - can you tell us what you learned from this experience? What would you do differently in the future?

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  2. I thought I had rectified the jamming issue because I resumed from where the paper had jammed from. I just need to stop assuming I did it properly and carefully compare it to the original document. I had to do that to fix my mistake, and it wasn't all that big of a deal - I was missing 15 chronological pages, and it took me less than ten minutes to copy and place it where it belonged.

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