I file the company’s check stubs in numerical order. It makes sense to do that. Perfect sense, in fact. I also file them vertically, but that’s just preference. Today while filing a stack of stubs, I noticed a group in the very back filed horizontally. After glancing through them, I realized Boss had filed them although I’m not sure it can be considered filing. There was no order to them whatsoever. He must have been keeping the stubs near his desk and just threw them into the folder. Numerical ordering is hard! It requires extra time and effort. Seriously, one of the checks was about 100 places out of order. If he were a regular employee, he’d have been fired by now.
Not all the things Boss does are completely dumb. He’s pretty suave over the phone, mostly because he’s very laidback, completely honest, and heck, who can resist hearing intimate details of his son and daughter’s personal lives! I’m sure his son would be thrilled to know that, thanks to his dad, Shaniqua with MasterCard collections in Des Moines has heard about his problems with calculus and that he broke up with Michelle last week and is taking it really rough. But on to my story. Our General Manager makes an appearance in this one. Boss received a call from the credit card company about late payments. After some time on the phone, he hangs up and walks proudly over to my desk:
Boss: I’ve got a new system!
Me: Oh yeah? What’s that?
Boss: I wait until the credit card companies call me wanting money and then I ask them how much money they’ll give me to pay them!
Me: So how does that work?
Boss: Well, I just ask them to take off a late fee and I’ll make a payment! She asked why I hadn’t paid and I told her I’d been busy! *Laughs* I’m just being honest!
GM: How many late fees did they take off?
Boss: One
GM: How many late fees do you have?
Boss: Three! *Laughing* Now THAT is cash flow management!
I think lucky mismanagement is more the case.
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Comment by Darryl Bridges — March 11, 2008 @ 8:46 pm