Well, wouldn't you? Funny how nit-picky work follows me. While I was at the school district, I had the pleasure (responsibility) of taking boring computer printer reports and dressing them up using a tool from ICS. I did paychecks. I did report cards. I did bilingual enrollment cards. The results may be great, but the work is tedious. The tools are a report, a desired report and a ruler that measures millimeters. The old tool let you lay out the new form (boxes, lines, shading, text) using millimeters, but required you to take the content from the existing report in spaces based on characters per inch. Print, test, correct, print, test, .... soon you have the new report that can print on plain paper with all the elegance of a pre-printed form. Fun. Depending on how far away the laser printer is from your desk and how many reams of paper you have to feed it.
Well, now at Sally, some state has decided that a paycheck for an hourly worker must have the pay rate on the check. Our payroll software can do the job, but who ever set up the paycheck forms in the new software did not plan for the pay rate. I spent a goodly number of steps and sheets getting the project nailed done today.
What I have now that I did not have in Tyler is a phone that measures my steps each day. I worked on the project today and yesterday. On Wednesday, I walked about a mile and a half for the day. Thursday and Friday, I walked just under 2 and a half each day. Was it all back and forth to the printer? If even half the extra each day was for the project, then, yes, I would walk a mile for a paycheck.
Actually, today was payday and since I direct deposit like any sane person would who had the option, my paycheck (pay statement really) came to me. :)
Well, now at Sally, some state has decided that a paycheck for an hourly worker must have the pay rate on the check. Our payroll software can do the job, but who ever set up the paycheck forms in the new software did not plan for the pay rate. I spent a goodly number of steps and sheets getting the project nailed done today.
What I have now that I did not have in Tyler is a phone that measures my steps each day. I worked on the project today and yesterday. On Wednesday, I walked about a mile and a half for the day. Thursday and Friday, I walked just under 2 and a half each day. Was it all back and forth to the printer? If even half the extra each day was for the project, then, yes, I would walk a mile for a paycheck.
Actually, today was payday and since I direct deposit like any sane person would who had the option, my paycheck (pay statement really) came to me. :)
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