April Fool's Day

It's April Fool's Day. Lucky for me nobody tried to pull a fast one on me. Even if anyone tried to they might not succeed. Hey, I ain't no fool (or so I think).

Managed to complete the work that my dad left behind for me before he left for his PRC trip. Although it was just a simple job of summing up total sales for the year, this particular client of his wasn't really the tidy sort. All in all, the sales are separated by 2 kinds of receipt books.

1st is categorised by companies (with payment terms) while the other is daily cash sales. I had no problem with the former but the other was kinda messy. No, let me rephrase myself. It was a total mess! Receipt books had no serial numbers & the dates overlapped each other. Nothing was in running order. There are booklets with dates starting from Nov '03 & abruptly jumped to Sept '04. WTF? Used the booklet for 1 month & then forgot about it till 10 months later?

Many of the receipt books had missing pages too. About an average of 30-40% loss. Maybe they made mistakes & tore off the pages. That I have no concern of. I only know the lesser the pages, the easier is my job. Hehe. Then there are pages where there's like 10 or more items listed with unit price but no total. WTF again? You mean you pricks people actually sum everything up in your head when you issue the receipt to your customers? Or do you guys expect the customers to do it themselves? Maybe I'm making a mountain out of a molehill. Whatever.

Ok, the thing that really really piss me off is the quality of the fugging receipt book. The pages seemed to be glued together & I had a hard time separating them. Even when I wet my whole hand I still can't split them. I had to resort to crumpling the whole receipt book. That certainly helped but I don't suppose they will want it back base on the state the booklets are in right now.

Seriously, accounting is not for those with a short fuse. There were oh so many times when I got so pissed doing it that I flung the receipt books all over. Some almost flew out of the balcony. Then there was my faithful sidekick, the calculator. Not only did the receipt books suffer from my abuse, but the calculator was not spared either. I pounded my fist on it when I miscalculated more than twice. My highest record for miscalculation of a single receipt book was 6 times. I could feel the arteries around my neck pulsating so violently I thought they were going to burst. Temperature was running high & I definitely could use a cold shower then.

But for all that is worth, I did get the job done. Nothing beats the satisfaction of accomplishing something which you think you can't.

We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve -- Maxwell Maltz