I
have managed to provide Trident Technical College with all of the
verification paperwork that they wanted. Now I can just wait for the
admissions process to do its thing and hopefully start school on the
24th of August. I can no longer snicker at my children
and their having to go back to school. I will be right there with
them studying and taking tests. I even told them that they can hold
me accountable for my grades and look at my report cards. I am not
sure that college students get a report card in the same sense as
grade school kids but they know that they will be able to see my
grades. I will have to do good so that they wont think their dad is
stupid or something. I would hate for them to ground me for making
bad grades.
Today
started out by dropping off my wife at work and then going to work
myself. I had not been at work for 30 minutes when I got a phone
call from the wife telling me that she had just gotten fired and to
come get her. As you can imagine she was upset about this turn of
events especially since she just started this job three weeks ago.
The reason that they fired her was because she was not getting it.
They also said that she did not finish her work on Saturday and left
without doing it. As you probably already know in the state of SC
the employer does not even need a reason to fire you. You are
employed at will and the employer and yourself can terminate that
employment at will as well. Neither one of you have to have a reason
however the employer requires that you give them 2 weeks notice while
at the same time they don't have to give you 5 seconds notice.
The
problem with this picture is that my wife is a very intelligent and
hard working individual who has always been a long term employee. I
will indulge the fact that she prefers to be in a classroom setting
and probably excels at teaching children more than she does in a
restaurant or shop setting where she has to do things she is not too
familiar with. When they said she did not do her job on Saturday
they did not care that she did not finish all of the tasks given to
her because she was stuck at the cash register the entire 7 hours.
She also was told that she could not work beyond her shift. How in
the world was she supposed to finish her side tasks if she was told
to run the cash register?
I
know, what is done is done and it does not matter that I think that
her supervisor is full of malarkey. They decided that they did not
like my wife for whatever reasons and dumped her back out on the
street from where she came. I know and Katy knows that life is not
fair and you just have to suck it up and go on. The good news is
that school starts in about two weeks and Katy can always be a
substitute teacher at one of the Charleston County schools in the
immediate area.
This
month we are hoping to get our daughter tested for her official
drivers license. I have been getting her to cart me here and there in
the Durango in an effort for her to get some more experience.
Princess does pretty good with regards to handling the vehicle on a
two lane road as well as freeway driving. She still needs to work on
her turning from one lane and keeping the vehicle in the same lane
she is turning into. In her defense the love boat is not exactly the
easiest vehicle to learn how to drive. All in all she is doing
pretty well. The next step for her will be to learn how to parallel
park and do a three point turn. I am not sure I even know what that
is but now that Katy is off of work for the next two weeks she can
figure out a way to do this. Monitoring my daughters driving habits
has been interesting and a test of my patience. One of the things
that I have had to do is to remind my princess that part of driving
from point A to point B is to know where you are at and where you are
going. I guess I had forgotten that when you are just riding in a
vehicle all the time you really dont pay attention to how you get
somewhere.
I
have learned the hard way that working for a publicly traded company
means that you get to participate in lots of audits through the year.
My goal once I am done with my degree program and have my new
certifications is to find employment somewhere that is NOT a publicly
traded company so I can alleviate a lot of stress and headaches from
my work day. Thanks to people and organizations who have defrauded
others of their hard earned cash the rest of us have to suffer
through the painful audit process. Here is how it works.
The
organization creates and publishes its I.T. Policies which include
how you are to perform you daily, weekly and monthly tasks. The
company then hires an outside consulting firm who then analyzes your
tasks and makes you create data controls to match those tasks. Then
the organization deems it necessary for you to perform all the tasks
outlined in each data control so that you can pass an audit. Then
the auditing firm comes through and puts all of your actions under a
microscope to make sure you have performed all of the data controls
to the letter and requires that you give them evidence of doing it.
It
all boils down to checks and balances and all of the data controls
are just a fancy way of encapsulating everything that you already
should be doing in order to safeguard and protect the financial
information that you are entrusted to take care of. If mistakes are
found, and there usually are some human errors that pop up then you
get to go through what is known as remediation. Remediation means
that you sit down with your boss and the bosses boss and that bosses
boss with the auditor and you get to explain why you screwed up.
Once you have announced to the world that you are an idiot and
promise not to ever not do that task the wrong way again you get to
help redefine the data control that contains all of the tasks or task
in question.
In
an audit you only did a task if you can provide evidence that you did
it. That evidence needs to be something that is generated by the
system or systems that you are managing. Not only that but there has
to be multiple people involved in each check and balance to confirm
that you did in fact do the task that you said that you did.
We
have decided that by the end of September or the beginning of October
we are going to take a week off and go back to Texas. All of our
friends and family are there and we have not been back home in about
6 years. We are hoping that we can fly vs driving so we can spend
more of our time enjoying our time with everyone vs eating up the
time driving between states. I am ready for some much needed time
away from work.
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