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Apr. 15th, 2005 10:33 amTwo things that I have learned at work this week, while assisting the Billing & Credit department:
1. I need glasses, soon. I'm doing a ton of data entry work, and more and more, I'm finding that the optimal distance for reading the data lines is about 8 inches from my face. I can read it when it's sitting on my desk, but it's a lot easier a little closer. Now, I suppose that I could rant and rail about this and decry the fact that I'm getting old, but I'm not going to, because a) everybody knows I'm getting old, and b) in my world, glasses are terribly, terribly sexy.
2. There is secret snark in the billing system. The data entry I've been doing is essentially discount pricing grids -- I get a form for a customer that has a list of three-letter vendor codes for all the vendors that are offering the customer a discount, and a percent discount, and I put them in the customer's pricing file so that the discounts are automatically applied when they order. There is a vendor with the code of POS. I only see the codes, usually, not the name, so I had seen this, snickered sophomorically, and assumed that the name of the vendor was something like Positronics or Position, or something else that starts with POS. Today, though, I got a different form of the agreement, which gives three-letter codes, discounts, and vendor names. Vendor POS is actually called 4x4 Lock. Apparently, it's not an unfortunate result of the coding system, it's commentary.
1. I need glasses, soon. I'm doing a ton of data entry work, and more and more, I'm finding that the optimal distance for reading the data lines is about 8 inches from my face. I can read it when it's sitting on my desk, but it's a lot easier a little closer. Now, I suppose that I could rant and rail about this and decry the fact that I'm getting old, but I'm not going to, because a) everybody knows I'm getting old, and b) in my world, glasses are terribly, terribly sexy.
2. There is secret snark in the billing system. The data entry I've been doing is essentially discount pricing grids -- I get a form for a customer that has a list of three-letter vendor codes for all the vendors that are offering the customer a discount, and a percent discount, and I put them in the customer's pricing file so that the discounts are automatically applied when they order. There is a vendor with the code of POS. I only see the codes, usually, not the name, so I had seen this, snickered sophomorically, and assumed that the name of the vendor was something like Positronics or Position, or something else that starts with POS. Today, though, I got a different form of the agreement, which gives three-letter codes, discounts, and vendor names. Vendor POS is actually called 4x4 Lock. Apparently, it's not an unfortunate result of the coding system, it's commentary.
