A Former Workplace Recent Story
Just a little tidbit from from my former workmate at the huge multi location college where I worked. A fair amount of my time was spent processing, printing and stuffing checks (by machine) as part of my job. Several hundred student payments twice a week and twice a year, a run of about 8000.
Recently, due to Covid hardship payments, my workmate had to do a run of 60,000 and other smaller runs of 11k are becoming ongoing, an unprecedented amount for us. Once you set up a payment run, you cannot start or line up another run, electronic or otherwise until they are printed.
Due to ridiculously quirky software we use, you cannot get it back to print at a later time. You need to have the same check number sequence on them as the file you send to the bank for funds allocation for each check number. Done before you print them.
So what happens when my workmate set it off, the laser printer breaks down completely. We had been using it for 12 years. Dead, it takes five days to get another one so no other check runs, electronic or otherwise could be done. Crazy.
So after 5 days, my ex workmate prints them all which takes about 3 days. My workmate gets an unprecedented thank you email from the powers that be.
The prospect of having to do another 60,000 then looms. So, 60,000 envelopes and check blanks are ordered. A huge amount compared with what we used to purchase at a time. So this would be our second big purchase of checks and envelopes in a short space of time.
Then, and only then, Our big name bank tell us that they could preform the printing, stuffing and stamping and distribution of any payment file (converted to checks) we send them for a really cheap price. How long they had been sitting on that one, who knows.
Anyway, that's what they are doing now. Apart from a few phone calls about our checks looking different from usual (The bank does there own format) all is doing well. Lol.
So we now have a brand new Laser printer, a leased stuffing machine and 60,000 blank checks and envelopes in a cupboard that we will hardly use, not to mention about 8 specialist toner units which contain a specific toner that prints to the checks and does not smear, about 250 or more dollars apiece What a waste. Lol.
Raising a child is akin to knowing you're getting fired in 18 years and having to train your replacement without actively sabotaging them.
Feel The Power Of The Mark Side
What if they're not stars? What if they are holes poked in the top of a container so we can breath?
"It's going to be OK - here's a horse and two million dollars."
Feel The Power Of The Mark Side
Raising a child is akin to knowing you're getting fired in 18 years and having to train your replacement without actively sabotaging them.
Feel The Power Of The Mark Side
Lightin' fuses is for blowin' stuff togethah.
What if they're not stars? What if they are holes poked in the top of a container so we can breath?
Raising a child is akin to knowing you're getting fired in 18 years and having to train your replacement without actively sabotaging them.
Feel The Power Of The Mark Side
What if they're not stars? What if they are holes poked in the top of a container so we can breath?
What if they're not stars? What if they are holes poked in the top of a container so we can breath?