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ok, that went well!

July 1st, 2009 at 05:58 pm

my boss and I were summoned to a special office budget-review exercise.
This was over how we get billed for certain services.
At first, he wanted to know if he REALLY HAD to attend (generally, he asks me to look at the invoice, then tell him if everything is ok so he can sign!)... I just told him if they had sent invites to both of us, that probably meant they DID need him to be there.

At the beginning, they just asked answers to see if we understand the system, then questions to see whether the info they had is accurate according to those parameters.
It must have surprised the people at Finance that, for most of the questions that arose, he would just look at me for an answer (for my grade/level, this would technically not be part of my job description. It would be "above" me, so to speak, to deal with budgets).
It must have made him feel glad that I knew the answers, and that not once did Finance correct me (so, he now knows I do understand the system! He trusts me, but, now he has CONFIRMATION that this trust is not misplaced!)
So, I earned some brownie points today! YAY!

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Edited to add that the Finance Manager has a low opinion of me due to a problem we had in the past, so I guess this also helps in that respect, as she saw today that I'm NOT a scatterbrain and that I actually KNOW what I'm doing!

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2 Responses to “ok, that went well!”

  1. Carol Says:
    July 1st, 2009 at 06:12 pm 1246471931
    1246471931

    I had an issue like that with a new boss of mine - I don't know if he had problems with women in particular, or if it was me. But I was his assistant, and he couldn't understand why the higher-ups wanted me to be part of a technology meeting, and actually said to me "why would they want a secretary to be part of this meeting?" I looked at him and said that in the 15+ years I had been working here I was very involved in and highly respected in the area of technology that they were meeting about, and oftentimes at this organization an individual's title doesn't matter. He's no longer my boss (he moved on), and I now run the technology piece we had all met on.

    Yes, very nice to prove that you're not a scatterbrain and show that you know what you're doing!

  2. miclason Says:
    July 1st, 2009 at 06:32 pm 1246473159
    1246473159

    Well, I DID make a serious mistake, it was an error in judgement (being used to "getting the job done, tie the loose ends later", I used my petty cash to pay for a car repair- official vehicle, mind you- and, once on site learned they had replaced an additional part and the bill was $35 above the amount that I had, so I put it out of my own pocket). She treated me like I was a criminal, and even said that, if I had been working for her, I'd be fired. (My boss was LIVID!) I kept my cool, recognized my mistake, offered apologies and calmly asked if there was anything I personally could do to help them fix the problem. (no sense in trying to fight it, if it's something that is forbidden, it's forbidden, right?) Plus, if I had known it was such a serious infraction, believe me, I wouldn't have done it, and, if I had done it maliciously, I'd have found another way to work around it so nobody would find out!(probably would have asked the company to bill me separately for that spare part or something. Oh, by the way, that is also forbidden!)

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