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Bleh.
I wrote previously on how I made a mistake concerning printing cheques. For those who didn't see it, basically this one client of ours provides pre-printed cheque stock (Numbered) in sequential order from lowest to highest. For our printing setup, we need the stock highest to lowest, so each day I have to take the stack of cheques we're going to print on and manually re-order them. Boring, mindless, but not a big deal, since this client only has 10-20 cheques per day.
Well, for a two week period in July, I forgot to re-order the cheques. So the cheques were loaded in the printer in the reverse order they needed to be. Cheque #20 printed on Cheque #1, etc. This of course is a logistics nightmare, because we have to balance our books, and these cheques will come back to be cleared, and what the number is on the cheque, and what our system says the number is won't match up. As it's my job to check the cheques after they print and make sure stuff like numbers match up to the logs, this is 100% my fault from start to finish. I realized I had been checking amounts, but not cheque numbers. D'oh!
So, I'm a complete monkey. I got written up (Along with two other much more minor problems which would have slid had this bombshell not dropped) and I made our company look bad in front of a VERY grouchy client.
NOW I discover that about half of the runs I DID re-order the cheques properly. 'Wait, that's a good thing!' You say?
NAY!
For now half of the fixes I put into the system for this SNAFU are now wrong, and will have to be undone, and we look even STUPIDER to our client, because not only were we wrong initially, our corrections were wrong too! And now I not only look like a monkey, I look like an inconsistent monkey.
I work with accountants. Inconsistency isn't a good trait in their books.
So, I'm worried that this might bring more badness on my head. I suppose I'll find out for sure when my manager gets back from vacation in a week or so. Nothing I can do now, but talk about a seemingly small thing going as wrong as physically possible!
I wrote previously on how I made a mistake concerning printing cheques. For those who didn't see it, basically this one client of ours provides pre-printed cheque stock (Numbered) in sequential order from lowest to highest. For our printing setup, we need the stock highest to lowest, so each day I have to take the stack of cheques we're going to print on and manually re-order them. Boring, mindless, but not a big deal, since this client only has 10-20 cheques per day.
Well, for a two week period in July, I forgot to re-order the cheques. So the cheques were loaded in the printer in the reverse order they needed to be. Cheque #20 printed on Cheque #1, etc. This of course is a logistics nightmare, because we have to balance our books, and these cheques will come back to be cleared, and what the number is on the cheque, and what our system says the number is won't match up. As it's my job to check the cheques after they print and make sure stuff like numbers match up to the logs, this is 100% my fault from start to finish. I realized I had been checking amounts, but not cheque numbers. D'oh!
So, I'm a complete monkey. I got written up (Along with two other much more minor problems which would have slid had this bombshell not dropped) and I made our company look bad in front of a VERY grouchy client.
NOW I discover that about half of the runs I DID re-order the cheques properly. 'Wait, that's a good thing!' You say?
NAY!
For now half of the fixes I put into the system for this SNAFU are now wrong, and will have to be undone, and we look even STUPIDER to our client, because not only were we wrong initially, our corrections were wrong too! And now I not only look like a monkey, I look like an inconsistent monkey.
I work with accountants. Inconsistency isn't a good trait in their books.
So, I'm worried that this might bring more badness on my head. I suppose I'll find out for sure when my manager gets back from vacation in a week or so. Nothing I can do now, but talk about a seemingly small thing going as wrong as physically possible!
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