I don’t know if I could be happier that it’s Friday. Then again, I don’t know if “happy” is the right word. I have had an emotionally exhausting week. I met with my attorney earlier this week and he pushed me to allow him to hire a private investigator to look into matters. He thinks it might be possible that Steve is the father of Becky’s baby. Great. Try explaining that one to a 10 year old kid. Honestly–I would not put it past him at this point.
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The recession for most of us feels like a part of our history. We are experiencing economic anomalies right now, having undergone a recession caused by the banks, and trying to skirt around a possible second dip recession caused, in Europe, but ‘the countries’. As Greece slips deeper into debt, even the stronger European nations are regarded with hesitation when it comes to their own economic stability. But what does this mean for shared services? Most authorities on shared services will agree: the recession has been good for this F&A operational model, and where before there may have been resistance to change, now there is acceptance and diminishing protestation. I talk of the 3 Cs driving change in shared services, and it’s these 3 Cs which now have the attention of senior management and have inturn nurtured the broader development and growth of shared services across the corporate world. Cost: Cost reduction has won the attention of C Level executives with real success. The cost of finance for multi-nationals doing shared services successfully is 0.6% to 1% of their revenues. Compare this to the organisations which haven’t done shared services or have just centralised their AP operations, and the cost of finance is well over 4%. This 3% difference helps companies survive during a recession. And seeing that revenue is seen as a factor which many companies can’t control during a recession, energy is channeledinto the area that can be controlled – cost. And what is one of the best cost reduction enablers in multi-nationals? Well, shared services of course! Cash: It’s a well referred to statistic: in 2008 71% of companies that went into administration were profitable… unfortunately for them they had run out of cash. During the recession senior management has almost gone into Panic Mode, expressing the importance of needing to know the company’s cash position, and now! If senior management want to know the true state of commitments, then Procurement need to be much more vigilant raising requisitions and POs. This has allowed shared services operations to drive through continuous improvement projects where increasing First Time Match rates and driving out Non PO invoices have been the focus. If senior management want to know how much spend is ‘out there’, the devil is in the process, and it’s the purchase to pay process where the root of this information exists
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Trend No. 2 The Recession Has Been Good For Shared Services
I kept my word. Well–kind of. When Sarah called me into her office this morning and asked me what was up with Josie, I told her it was just some “personal stuff.” She seemed okay with that, as long as all the cubicle melodrama was over with. I couldn’t resist asking about the fact that Josie had it in her head that she was supposed to be promoted, though. The look on Sarah’s face when I asked: PRICELESS! She actually looked like she was about to cry at first. She has a little problem with confrontation. Anyways–what she told me is also priceless. Being the finance dept in an investment firm, we have auditors in from Finra every year. We provide them with a spare office. One day a few months ago, (in the middle of one of these audits) Josie was instructed to bring some documents the auditor requested to the spare office. She walks in without knocking. She promptly runs out, screaming and spilling papers everywhere–straight to Rachel’s office
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Salami
I left off yesterday telling you how I was going to have to have a one on one with Josie–she’s been crying and carrying on in her cube all week. I should add a little background first. I gave a pretty harsh description of Josie in a previous post . I mentioned that her husband cheats on her and I should let you know exactly how I came to be in possession of that lil tidbit of knowledge. When Josie first started, we were kinda cool. We would talk and take lunch together every now and then. I even invited her over to my house for a passion party that my sister, Sophia was hosting. Sidenote on Sophia: she has a wild side.
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Meeting in the ladies room
Yeah–I need to get a grip. I feel like I am running on empty and it’s not cool. I have to keep it together for Josh and that means keeping it together emotionally and professionally. It seems like every single day something happens–the gods are conspiring against me–well as long as they keep me on my toes, I guess… Okay–so the meeting yesterday was weird to say the least. It was me, Sarah and one of the Finance Dept Controllers. We’ll call the Controller “Lauren”. I have to say I am pretty shocked that Lauren is pretty much acting like Rachel won’t be back. I think it’s twisted and sick. Either they’re assuming she’s gonna die or they’re just trying to push her out. Talk about kicking a dog when she’s down. There was no talk whatsoever of my and Sarah’s promotions being temporary. They even moved Sarah into Rachel’s office. Which is just fantastic because now I am stuck in the cubes with the whining, moaning and gossiping bitches from hell–except for Maggie–although since she’s been acting so weird, the jury is kind of out on her. Speaking of the bitches from hell, Josie has been sitting in her cube switching between moping and crying all week. She thinks no one can tell, but there’s not much you can keep secret in the cubicle jungle. I guess I will have to make it my priority to ask her what’s up now that I am supervisor. I’ll pull her to the side this afternoon sometime
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Get a grip
Okay–I have to be fast today–meetings, meetings, meetings–PLUS I swear everytime I look up someone is at my cubicle and I don’t want this lil bloggy-blog to be exposed–it’s all I have! I got home yesterday to a mess! SOMEONE aka Steve broke in! He broke a pane of glass in the door and got it open. He went through everything and just threw stuff all over. I guess he got his clothes, laptop and firewire drive where his precious novel is stored. He left a note on the dining room table telling me to call his mother to “set something up” so he can see Josh. Set something up???? Are they gonna “do lunch” too?? I can tell you it will be a cold day in hell before I call Roxanne—Steve can figure it out–I am not gonna be his personal assistant anymore–scheduling visitation with his child! I am so mad. And I still don’t know where the jerk is staying. If he thinks for a minute that I am letting our child visit him at “the other woman’s” house–he has another thing coming! I have a meeting in 20 minutes–but Sarah already prepped me. Since Rachel is out indefinitely–Sarah will be acting manager and I will be acting supervisor–with another pay raise–even if it is temporary. I know it comes under sad circumstances–I feel bad–but I guess I am a single mother now and I could use the money. With all the meetings around here—everyone in accounts payable is nervous. They hate to see a closed door! They always assume they are about to get fired. No matter how many times you tell a person that they have to be doing something wrong to get fired–it never sticks. Ha–maybe because they are all doing something wrong. Like talking shit ALL the time. I am having one of my co-workers (from another dept) work on my taxes–I have to hurry and file–I need some divorce money. Oh well–on to my meetings!
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Quickie
So after a few days having a “missing” husband–who mind you left with the clothes on his back–no extra undies or anything–I started to wonder where he was. He didn’t call to see his kid–or even to get a change of clothes. I had hoped to avoid it–but I realized I probably needed to call the enabler extraordinaire, my mother-in-law, Roxanne. I had put off calling her because she basically blames me for everything! The blame isn’t totally out there–she’ll listen with a sympathetic ear–clucking in a motherly way in all the appropriate parts of the story–but her response is always to make some sort of excuse for Steve.
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Changes
Working from home AGAIN! So much bs had gone on since the last time I posted. My “husband” has gone “missing” and Rachel may have been diagnosed with breast cancer. You might wonder how I can calmly type about not knowing where Steve is. Keep in mind, this is not the first time we’ve had issues. As I mentioned before, me and Josh really just moved back here after a brief seperation because of Steve lying about quitting his job. Here’s what happened over the weekend: Friday night I caught Steve IM’ing with one of his old girlfriends. We’ll call her “Becky.” Seems him and Becky have been meeting up for lunches and whatnot while I’m slaving away paying bills for my favorite corporation. Needless to say–I snapped! Wtf?? Steve ups and quits his job so that he can write the next “great American novel”–you know to pursue his dreams–like paying bills for a living is my life dream!!!! So me and Steve had words–well more than that–I threw him and his laptop out and haven’t heard a peep from him all weekend. My sister, Sophia came by with some friends and we had a lock changing party on Saturday night. I am not leaving MY home this time. I thought by leaving him last time–he’d learn a lesson: no job, no money–the bills don’t get paid. WRONG! My mother-in-law paid for everything in my absence. I’m sure that’s where he’s staying now. I know I’m going to have to deal with this–but right now I need to work and take care of Josh. I’m pretty sure my marriage is over this time, though
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why me
So I went out to lunch today with Maggie to tell her the news about my “promotion.” I wasn’t supposed to say anything–but I figure my office bff has a right to know before they announce it at the next dept luncheon. To tell you the truth, I’m really not sure how she took it. It went a little something like this: Me: So–I have some news. Rachel and Sarah wanna promote me to team lead. Maggie: What????
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News
Had a snow day yesterday and so I worked from home. School was still in session–but I didn’t want to risk sending Josh when he has such a long commute home–never can tell how the roads will be. Anyways–I didn’t blog because as I said before, Steve doesn’t know about this and he was home, too. I though I’d start off today by giving you all a quick low down on my closest co-workers. I’m sure you’ll be hearing a lot about them–so might as well get you acquainted: Josie: in her 30’s, nasty backbiter–watch what you say to her she gossips incessantly, cheating husband and she hates her step kids.
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