Another Day, Another Couple of Dollars Earned

Today is day one of end of month. Every month, for the first two days of the month, we have the ability to "backdate" transactions from the previous month that weren't completed. For example, if I didn't get the bills of lading for material that shipped on the 31st until the 2nd, I can still invoice the customer and date the invoice the 31st so it will be counted in October. Well, this month we get a whole THREE days to "backdate" because the auditors will be in to audit our October transactions. Oh what fun!

To make matters worse, I had two barge shipments that went out last week that I needed to put into the system. One wasn't bad, only 400,000 pounds worth of material. But the OTHER one...2.4 million pounds! That's a lot of steel coils, lmao. I have to receive the coils into our system into inventory (even though they will be on a river barge for 4 weeks), add all the coils to a spreadsheet, and then pay the invoices to the mills that made all this material. Unbeknownst to me, one of the mills added freight to the invoice. Normally, for truck shipments they don't. And the last barge they shipped out, was while I was on vacation, so I didn't see any of the paperwork. So it wasn't until AFTER I had put the invoices in to be paid that the Accounting Mgr comes up and says, "you forgot freight on all these." I said, "What freight?" Lo and behold, there was freight. So he had to cancel part of what I did, and now I have to go back and add all the freight in and re-do it. Ugh!!! I did NOT need that at 3:45pm! Guess what I'll be doing first thing tomorrow morning?

Then to top it all off, I had some other material ship out from another mill (same mill company, just different plant), and they invoiced us at a different price than what my Purchase Order said. So I have to put all the information together for the co-ordinator so he can discuss with his sales contact at the mill. I don't know whether I should process any of this paperwork, or hold it on my desk. My boss will be back tomorrow afternoon, so I'll let him know what's going on and see what he suggests I do.

After all that, I need to finish this, and what better way than to post lyrics from another song by Ryan Shupe and The Rubber Band. This song is called Simplify.

I say what the hey I've got bills to pay
I work all day I got no time to play
And what's more, knocking on my door
Is the tax collector and I'm poor

See there's too many bills too many pills
Too many features and too many frills
No money, too many things to buy
Too many ways to split the pie

I've got to simplify
I've got to simplify
My life
I say simplify
I've got to simplify

I've got to smell the flowers, enjoy the ride
I've got to open up my eyes
And see what's outside
All the things I miss each day

'Cause I'm driving in the fast lane
And it's making me insane
And I don't want to be that way
I want to be free today from responsibility that brings excess duress
I've got to enjoy more and stress less

Simplify
I've got to simplify
My life
I say simplify
I've got to simplify

That's great, I'm late
'Cause I'm always in a hurry
For a meeting in the state of confusion, a delusion
An illusion I've taken much too far

I'm always living in the future or the past
But time flies too fast
I've got to make it last
So enjoy, relax, chill out...
Just give it a try

Simplify
I've got to simplify
My life
I say simplify
I've got to simplify


P.S. Happy Birthday to Rick "Thunder God" Allen, drummer for Def Leppard, he turned 42 today.