The Perils of a finance office

What a day, due to some twist of fate (or something like that) the paperwork in the finance office has built up to levels of catastrophic proportion. Dangerous levels for paper protruding for their "waiting to be filed" trays, leaning in a way that requires some kind of scaffolding. So as part of Operation "Piles" I set about putting a two foot pile of paperwork into alphabetical order (strict alphabetical order). As you can imagine the job is very monotonous, but does have its dangerous side if you allow you concentration levels to drop. As a result of this exact reason, I have now sustained injuries, paper cuts on my hands. You know very well that a paper cut can be the most painful of injuries. Resulting in you becoming a whingeing pain to the people around you, because they can't see what is causing so much pain, and actually they think you're a wimp.... cos its not even bleeding.  To add to my discomfort, the sorting of this paperwork took me 6 hours..... Funny really that they ask the ONLY dyslexic in the office to file paperwork in alphabetical order.

Anything that appears to be related to Finance gets a bit of a tough rap. There are such strict rules and regulations to stay on the right side of the law, and twice a year we have visits from groups of individuals that come in and scrutinise every action that is taken. These individuals are called auditors and they make anyone working within the office very nervous. It's not because of what we do, because believe me the staff in a finance office are totally kosher, but a microscopic hiccup and they pounce like a pack of starving wolves ravaging a carcass. It's a bit like the opening lines of H.G Wells, War of the Worlds.  "No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own". Well almost, the bit about intelligences greater than mans is a little bit over exaggerated, in most cases!

So hopefully this explanation of just one of the difficulties might give you a slightly better idea why it appears that anyone who works in a financial roll can't deviate from the regulations. We're not boring people, we are just more squeaky clean than anyone else walking the planet. Please also take note never ever ask us to explain what we do. I tried it once and I fell asleep.

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