Tis the season... (Redux)

[vanillafluffy]

I took 16 orders today, which isn't a record (Close, though!), but about half of them I had to "clean up" after--- mostly requesting credits because one code wouldn't work with another, or just plain wouldn't work---or price adjustment, or commenting on when the 14th business day was. None of the callers were unbearably bitchy, though, so it's all good.

Also managed to avert a potential crisis without bloodshed---scheduling had me down to work mandatory overtime on two of my days off next week, and NO FUCKING WAY was I going to schlep back and forth to Melbourne for half-shifts of overtime on my days off. But I had a few words with Boss C, who got scheduling to swap things around so I'll have the same basic schedule as this week, IE, going in two hours early. Which works, because there's a holiday feast at church on Sunday, so I didn't want to volunteer that either.

Still no word on whether there will be mandatory overtime Christmas week. If not, I'll only have a 3-day week, Tuesday, Friday and Saturday. That would be nice....

Have to go in earlier tomorrow, so I can snag my check and get it deposited. *yawn*

Comments

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

Yah! for lots of orders. Good for you and the economy, too.

I suspect things at my job will hit the wall next week and stay firmly pressed to it until I get off work on New Year's Eve. Because we must have all the year's financial stuff closed out by noon on Dec. 31, things get extremely crazy. The parish has already been advised (warned, cajoled, threatened with decapitation) if everyone waits until the last minute to catch up their tithe or turn in receipts for reimbursement.

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

How many people constitutes "the parish"? I'm presuming it's more than just The Padre, but I have no idea how many people or what kind of reciepts there could be. Our church is quite small, with voluntary, not paid positions, so I've only a vague idea of what you're going through.

Whenever someone calls and says, "I'd like to place an order", I always say, "I can help you with that! I love to help people shop!" Which is true. To this, I think I'm going to add, "It makes me feel like I'm personally helping the economy!"

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

St. P's has 115 official members and a large group of people who attend regularly but haven't gone through the official paperwork to join. Regular Sunday attendance is 75 people. The yearly budget is $125K, not counting the income from renting the Mission House, so being the administrator is like running a small business.

There's me, The Padre, the organist, the groundskeeper and the babysitter who are paid staff. My buddy J. the caterer manages the kitchen and does the floral arrangements in return for running his catering business out of it (we turn a blind eye to this on the grounds that our insurance company would have kittens if it knew). The financial officer, committee chairs and all the various teachers are volunteers.

If someone needs Sunday School supplies or a garden hose, or if J. makes a Sam's Club run to buy coffee and toilet paper, they turn in receipts and I get them reimbursed. The problem is that people tend to forget to turn them in until the end of the year. So the last couple of days can be a complete madhouse, with committees suddenly spending down their budgets and receipts raining on me like accursed snowflakes.

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

My goodness, we consider 25 people to be a generous turnout! I think our actual offical membership is about 30---there's been a die-off of the founding members, and another group splintered off and started another church about 10 years ago. We're just about scraping by financially---everything is voluntary, even---or maybe I should say especially---hospitality.

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

St. P's had about 35 members around the time The Padre came to work there 14 years ago. He retired at 62 from being a full time priest, and if he wasn't collecting his pension, St. P's could not afford him.

He's extremely good at building and maintaining a parish and a good money manager, despite his near-constant state of disorganization. :)