my two cents worth.

Spending the whole day looking for a mere two centavos was my dilemma last Friday. This was pointed out by the keenest of the eyes by no less than the head of the audit team who scrutinized my report for the month of august.

So was it worth it? I was so stressed looking for that disbalance and disgruntled that that mere two centavos blemished my almost perfect report. The time it took and the stress it gave me was never worth it because the fact is that they could just have let it go, yet instead they let me revise my thirty four page report just for that two centavos. What a waste of time! What a waste of energy! What a waste of computer ink and paper!

I know they were just doing their work and that they have every right to be strict. However, whatever happened to being considerate? Or even just being a little bit humane as possible? I know I’m not perfect, but who is? For real, the amount of office supplies I have to use in revising my report is way more compared to those two centavos I failed to reflect in my now rubbish report.

What is even more frustrating is the fact that they (auditors) could have just easily written it off since it was nothing or immaterial compared to the millions of pesos of transactions I pump into the company’s account every month.

Immaterial!

Written off!

Ignored!

And those were the three exact words they told me after. Huh?! Now tell me, don’t I have the right to get pissed off? This is insane! Office bureaucracy at its finest!

So what’s my two cents worth? Unbelievable stress and a lot more office work. Sad, so sad. 😦