Our company has gone through a lot of employee turnover recently. Among the biggest changes was in Accounts - our old accountant, who pretty much demanded he was in charge of everything (even outside of Accounts) had moved on, and we had received, in his place, ShakespeareAccountant.
ShakespeareAccountant, while a far more competent accountant that what we had, has a rather large flair for the dramatic during everyday speech. It almost seems like life is merely a stage for him, and he's inside a play, rehearsing his lines to us. Since he's just started, and trying to get his head around our policies (some of which are retarded), he's in the "TRAGEDY! ALAS!" mode of acting.
And then the Tax Office called.
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ShakespeareAccountant: "The Tax Office wants some of our files!"
Me: "Oh. Is that bad?"
ShakespeareAccountant:: "Well, its not great, but we're not a dodgy company, so we'll be fine. I need access to our Quickbooks data files."
Me: "Cool, not a proble-......wait, we use Quickbooks? What happened to MYOB?"
ShakespeareAccountant:: "Huh? We've always used both in tandem. You know, on <compname>?"
Me: "Oh, that thing. Er...I've never had access to it. Finance stuff, and all that - the old accountant didn't like sharing access for anything. Can't you access the data through your machine? I always assumed that you had some software that talked to it"
ShakespeareAccountant:: "Um....I just play with numbers."
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I found out that the Quickbooks box is basically a network storage device, sans UPS. No-one here knows how to access it, and of course, all actual documentation is long gone (if it ever existed). And now the Tax Office has used the words "urgently need".
You know, if I hadn't just had an awesome holiday, this might annoy me.
ShakespeareAccountant, while a far more competent accountant that what we had, has a rather large flair for the dramatic during everyday speech. It almost seems like life is merely a stage for him, and he's inside a play, rehearsing his lines to us. Since he's just started, and trying to get his head around our policies (some of which are retarded), he's in the "TRAGEDY! ALAS!" mode of acting.
And then the Tax Office called.
---
ShakespeareAccountant: "The Tax Office wants some of our files!"
Me: "Oh. Is that bad?"
ShakespeareAccountant:: "Well, its not great, but we're not a dodgy company, so we'll be fine. I need access to our Quickbooks data files."
Me: "Cool, not a proble-......wait, we use Quickbooks? What happened to MYOB?"
ShakespeareAccountant:: "Huh? We've always used both in tandem. You know, on <compname>?"
Me: "Oh, that thing. Er...I've never had access to it. Finance stuff, and all that - the old accountant didn't like sharing access for anything. Can't you access the data through your machine? I always assumed that you had some software that talked to it"
ShakespeareAccountant:: "Um....I just play with numbers."
---
I found out that the Quickbooks box is basically a network storage device, sans UPS. No-one here knows how to access it, and of course, all actual documentation is long gone (if it ever existed). And now the Tax Office has used the words "urgently need".
You know, if I hadn't just had an awesome holiday, this might annoy me.
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