Small Annoyances

Will someone please explain to me why common sense and attention to detail seems to be such a rarity among Social Workers?

Why does it always seem to take five or six reminders for them to get one small task accomplished? I hate nagging. And yet, if I don't, the work doesn't get done.

Excel is not that hard. At least not the basics. For your average person, that is. To a Social Worker, however, using excel seems to be one of the most difficult things they have ever done! A typical question from them about excel is: "Why don't the zeros show up in this cell when I enter 2.00?" Are you kidding me!?

Fortunately, if I am not able to bill correctly due to something the Social Workers have not done, or because of some information they have not provided me, then they do not get paid for those hours. That seems to be a pretty good incentive, and far more effective than all the nagging.

They should send me roses for all the mistakes I have to fix for them every week and for all of the annoyances they cause me!

Yeah, like that will happen!

Ok. I'm done ranting now. Good people, important jobs. Just annoying as hell to someone in accounting.

PS

(Do not see blog post entitled "Just Call Me Bonnie". I am not in accounting at home, and that was a ONE TIME INCIDENT! Not a weekly one!)