Gotta love those review notes. Formatted in Word or Excel, they can be an endless source of frustration. I've heard stories where people have 3 or 4 pages of review notes on easy accounts like cash and prepaids. The worst ones, the ones I hate, are the ones that take 2 seconds to complete. "Make this tickmark green instead of blue" Are you bloody kidding me? Do it yourself. Also, the use of multiple question marks and exclamation marks kill me. Come on now, be a little more mature. This is not AIM or facebook. At least discuss them in person or on the phone prior to handing them the notes instead of handing the review notes, not saying a word and leaving the field. Timing's also key. Don't give review notes two weeks after everyone leaves the client site, and expect the notes to be cleared up within a few days. Also have to laugh at the ones with a sense of attitude in them. "This doesn't make any sense at all!! Why is there a $1,000,000 variance?????" Oh my bad, typo. $100,000 variance. "Bold this number." It's always interesting coming up with answers to these notes. On one hand, I can say "done". But it's tough to resist the urge to say "seriously? You couldn't have done that yourself? You wasted more time writing the review note than doing it. Douche"
Just realized that the very payroll/adp reports we all enjoyed looking at in order to see how much our client contacts made, now seem to piss me off. Especially when your main contact, who couldn't tell a debit from a credit, makes significantly more than you, and leaves at 5. It's almost guaranteed to get you in a foul mood and yak with your team about the ridiculous salaries that certain employees get when compared to yours.
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I liked the anger and desperation in the first half, it was full of emotion even if it wasn't a happy time, it was a good read. I expected change would soon come, it had to, but it was an unexpected twist. Like Stockholm syndrome you began to enjoy the cool aid. Then a lull in the story, complaints about exclamation points, and how today's youth have it easy. Granted there is less pain but with the pain went the excitement.
If only life was like a good book.
Well, there's only one ending I can envision. What kind of change did you initially expect?
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