GIT X 2

Well, it's gotten to be my busy time of the month. As my profile shows, I work in the energy industry (more specifically crude oil), and this is our settlement time. Today, I had to train my replacement and another lady as well who is filling a position vacated by another employee that moved elsewhere within the company.

GIT#1 (my replacement) actually did fairly well with settlements. She entered a few numbers in the wrong areas of the spreadsheet, but heck, I've done that. As we reverified numbers today when working on getting the items into the accounting system, things started to click as to what was supposed to go where.

GIT#2 (employee replacement) did ok with the settlements as well. The other analysts she worked with seemed ok with her work.

And then we get today...

GIT#1 has worked with the systems somewhat and has uploaded journal entries; GIT#2 has not.

So today I walked them through how to generate the journal entries with the settlement system and how to format the journal entries. I didn't let them upload. I also explained that sometimes a number gets thrown out and that if there is a "0" amount there, to delete that line because the validation system will kick it out. Well, the "0" lines got deleted as did the system generated lines that didn't have any information in the lines except the system information. I looked over the journal entries and after looking at the second one, I knew my fears had been confirmed. So, I had to go in and reset the system, reextract the journals, and then reformat them. Talk about a headache.

The good thing about this...GIT#1 & GIT#2 both learned from this mistake. It put us about half a day behind, but when you are training someone, that's not that bad.

*sigh*