This morning I felt much better, so I went to work. I was *very* busy all day long.
I made a pretty big mistake though. There was this report I was working on to send in to the Railroad Commission. I had all the numbers figured correctly after having painstakingly entered a years worth of them for two different companies on a spreadsheet - then calling the companies to verify my numbers.
I needed to finish that report today, and get it sent off. So, I figured out the total, and started entering it on the first line. However I caught myself making a 6 instead of a 9. Fixed it with a little white out.
Sent it to the manager who has to sign the paperwork. He signed it and gave it back to me. I put it in the mail.
6 hours later . . .
Sh, the person who asked me to do this project, came to me and showed me the folder I'd filed the copy of the form I'd mailed. Changing the last 9 to a 6 wasn't my only mistake. I had also replaced the 9's in the thousands place with 0's - and hadn't caught it.
I *really* thought I'd done a good job on it. And yet, I muck up again. Ugh!
I've written a letter to the RRC to explain the accounting mistake, and hopefully rectify the situation. We'll see what happens I guess. (I had the numbers written correctly on the draft sheet - but somehow got 0 in my head!)
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So E calls me tonight - leaves a voicemail. Not word one about the bounced check - just 'Laura could you help me out by opening g2 in the morning?'
I called him back and left a voicemail telling him I'd do it - but that we needed to talk tomorrow - in my most serious unhappy sounding tone possible.
He leaves me a voicemail (this time I purposely didn't answer) and tells me thanks, and sure we can talk tomorrow. All in a cheery voice.
I don't think he gets it does he?
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I bought groceries tonight.
$11.67 from Walmart - fruit, frz dinners, pizza, chocolate 
I could have just gotten the fruit and been fine - but yesterday got craving pizza and almost ordered delivery - so decided to buy myself a Totino's for $1.12 instead tonight.
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My post tonight:
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Sorry for kind of a downer post.
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Still, a piece of chocolate is a lot more fun to swallow than a magnesium tablet!
Chin up - we all make mistakes. Face them and move on. Do you have a cubicle buddy who you could go over the figures with before they go to the manager for okay to sendoff?
January 24th, 2009 at 03:49 am 1232768970
Deficiency in Magnesium? Hmm, I'll have to look into that. But yeah, chocolate is more fun.
I do have a buddy who looks over my stuff usually, but she was really swamped, and this needed to get out.