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There are days
Sep. 24th, 2014 07:03 pmAnd this was one of them.
We have a new accountant, who has limited Sage payroll experience, so I've been helping her, based on my time running the company payroll two years ago. She's lovely and we get on really well - even though she drinks coffee and I drink tea and by the end of the afternoon neither of us was really sure which was ours.
So today I went to help do the main payroll run so that we can be paid on Friday. It should have been simple. Only something went wrong with the upload, which meant two-thirds of the staff had negative pay of £1 million. Each. Not good. Sorted all that out, plus all the other bits that hadn't worked (or had been forgotten by the person doing the upload).
Finally, we were triumphant. At which point I insisted we take a backup (probably my best move of the day). And we prepared the files ready for export to the bank. Could we find where to save the files? Asked the accounts person, who was incredibly rude and treated us as if we were imbeciles. Finally found where they had to go. Did everything else. Thought we'd finished.
At which point we found a mistake. And then the manager came in to point out some more. Because our crystal ball had been faulty. Good job we took that backup. I go back tomorrow to have another go.
And now I sense the wine calling to me.
We have a new accountant, who has limited Sage payroll experience, so I've been helping her, based on my time running the company payroll two years ago. She's lovely and we get on really well - even though she drinks coffee and I drink tea and by the end of the afternoon neither of us was really sure which was ours.
So today I went to help do the main payroll run so that we can be paid on Friday. It should have been simple. Only something went wrong with the upload, which meant two-thirds of the staff had negative pay of £1 million. Each. Not good. Sorted all that out, plus all the other bits that hadn't worked (or had been forgotten by the person doing the upload).
Finally, we were triumphant. At which point I insisted we take a backup (probably my best move of the day). And we prepared the files ready for export to the bank. Could we find where to save the files? Asked the accounts person, who was incredibly rude and treated us as if we were imbeciles. Finally found where they had to go. Did everything else. Thought we'd finished.
At which point we found a mistake. And then the manager came in to point out some more. Because our crystal ball had been faulty. Good job we took that backup. I go back tomorrow to have another go.
And now I sense the wine calling to me.
