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Sep. 10th, 2010 09:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
holytoastrYesterday the director of our department held a bad news meeting. It was like when you rip off a bandaid to get the pain over as quickly as possible.
So the first thing is that the magazine is canceled. This is a big problem because all our marketing materials says, "Member benefit! Magazine!" and now we won't be sending the magazines out, making us look like one of those scammy charities. The higher ups are trying to think of something of equal perceived value that we can send instead, but until then, the membership dept is out of luck.
Then there is the complication that the magazine isn't canceled officially. The board has to approve the change. And the board won't decide until the end of this month. Just a few days before the final art for one of our biggest renewal mailings needs to be printed. So once we know if it really is canceled, we may need to re-print all our member benefit inserts. Everyone will be scrambling as soon as we know.
The second piece of bad news was our accountant quitting. Which is really bad because without him, nothing gets paid.
Which brings us to the third piece of bad news. The higher ups have decided not to replace the accountant. Each program manager will be expected to handle their own invoices instead. Don't they realize that's a bad idea? That's how we used to handle invoices before the accountant was hired. It was a total disaster. Invoices kept getting lost. And not paid. And the higher ups aren't even considering all the other stuff he does, like reconcile late payments, transfer funds between accounts, and other good stuff like that.
All of these very stressful changes is making me give a look over my resume. It's making me nervous.
After the meeting, I headed home in a foul mood. Which was made worse by a woman who was changing her baby's diaper ON THE TRAIN SEAT. It was disgusting! The smell was bad enough, but to make things worse, she didn't put anything underneath the baby's filthy butt. So there was nasty baby poop on the seat when she was done. Gross! What is wrong with these people!?
I was super grumpy by the time I got home. And careless, so I spilled hot garlic butter all over my clothes and the floor. It was a mess.
I ended up going to bed early. There was no point in staying awake. But then I had trouble sleeping all night because my back ached. I've been so tense the last couple days, the muscles in my shoulders and along my spine feel totally destroyed. I need a vacation.
So the first thing is that the magazine is canceled. This is a big problem because all our marketing materials says, "Member benefit! Magazine!" and now we won't be sending the magazines out, making us look like one of those scammy charities. The higher ups are trying to think of something of equal perceived value that we can send instead, but until then, the membership dept is out of luck.
Then there is the complication that the magazine isn't canceled officially. The board has to approve the change. And the board won't decide until the end of this month. Just a few days before the final art for one of our biggest renewal mailings needs to be printed. So once we know if it really is canceled, we may need to re-print all our member benefit inserts. Everyone will be scrambling as soon as we know.
The second piece of bad news was our accountant quitting. Which is really bad because without him, nothing gets paid.
Which brings us to the third piece of bad news. The higher ups have decided not to replace the accountant. Each program manager will be expected to handle their own invoices instead. Don't they realize that's a bad idea? That's how we used to handle invoices before the accountant was hired. It was a total disaster. Invoices kept getting lost. And not paid. And the higher ups aren't even considering all the other stuff he does, like reconcile late payments, transfer funds between accounts, and other good stuff like that.
All of these very stressful changes is making me give a look over my resume. It's making me nervous.
After the meeting, I headed home in a foul mood. Which was made worse by a woman who was changing her baby's diaper ON THE TRAIN SEAT. It was disgusting! The smell was bad enough, but to make things worse, she didn't put anything underneath the baby's filthy butt. So there was nasty baby poop on the seat when she was done. Gross! What is wrong with these people!?
I was super grumpy by the time I got home. And careless, so I spilled hot garlic butter all over my clothes and the floor. It was a mess.
I ended up going to bed early. There was no point in staying awake. But then I had trouble sleeping all night because my back ached. I've been so tense the last couple days, the muscles in my shoulders and along my spine feel totally destroyed. I need a vacation.
