So about an hour ago I got a call from Mr. Russell. And by the end of our 15 minute call I was furious. FURIOUS.

Yesterday afternoon I asked him if he had any tasks he wanted me to get done while he was out, and he said other than his expense report he had nothing.

This morning he called. “I have a couple things after all,” he said, and proceeded to list off fourteen tasks he wants me to do today. FOURTEEN. TODAY. :banghead:

“I don’t want you to be bored,” he laughed.

Barely containing my fury, I bit out, “You’ve taken care of that now, haven’t you?”

After I slammed down the phone I took a quick brisk walk around the floor to calm down. The main reason for my fury was the fact that he wanted to make a substantial change to a reservation that I spent THE BULK OF MY DAY working on yesterday. I finally booked it late in the day when he said, “We’re done – that’s final.” And this morning he called to say, “I’ve changed my mind – I want to fly in a day earlier and attend a meeting that night.” Now that sounds like a simple change, but when the event, dinner and hotel in question relates to the NCAA Final Four weekend it can be difficult to find aisle seats on flights, get an extra night in the already fully-booked hotel and a seat at the already sold-out dinner. 😡

I’m getting pissed off again just typing it here.

Have I mentioned how much I hate doing the :censored: expenses for The Company? Their methodology for doing them is absolutely idiotic and I hate hate HATE it.

At my old company, I was able to get through expenses quite easily. Have a receipt? Expense it!

Here you not only have to have the receipt but the charge has to be on the AmEx bill. Not on the AmEx bill? You have to wait a month to expense it EVEN IF YOU HAVE THE RECEIPT. That’s just stupid. Why is it so stupid? Because if you have the AmEx charge but no receipt (i.e., travel booked for a trip that’s not for another month) you can expense it. But no accountability that I can tell if that trip gets cancelled and the airfare refunded. I just think it’s ridiculous to make me hold on to receipts when that should be proof enough that A TRANSACTION TOOK PLACE FOR WHICH HE’D LIKE TO BE REIMBURSED.

Update at 12:17 p.m.: I should have gone straight to our accounting person for clarification. I’ve been going to her desk all morning to pull old receipts that I accidently attached to last month’s report and she finally asked what I was doing. When I explained and also complained about needing both AmEx and the receipt she frowned and said, “The receipt is all you need – you only need AmEx if you LOST the receipt.” I was flabbergasted and told her that The Prez’s admin told me otherwise. I also told her that the admin told me that I could expense travel not taken yet but charged on the card. “Absolutely not!” the accounting person told me. “You can’t do that.”

So I’m happy that I’m not insane and that The Company is not insane. It’s just The Prez’s admin that’s insane.