Friday Five 7-October-2022

Questions from F.riday5.com | Let's cut the small talk

1. What are you learning these days?
I have this ongoing thing with German and as I've mentioned before with this Coursera thing I'm on an Econocmics thing that is haunting me with a vengeance.

2. How have you recently surprised yourself?
Note really. Well sometimes I surprise myself with my weird but spot on logic (I make impossible leaps when thinking about the whys and hows something happened and although those things that I think of are really out there, apparently, that's exactly how things went for them to work out that way.)

3. What are you most hopeful about in your personal life?
Dunno. I'm pretty much happy with things so I don't think there's anything to be hopeful about.

4. What’s worrying you?
.... if it's overall in life then as #3 above, there's nothing in particular. But right this moment, once again, my Boss gave me an impossible task and I sort of managed to get what he wanted but now that I need him to reconfirm something he's offline. (He has weird sleeping hours and that makes work really difficult when dealing with service providors because by the time he's up to answer things, they are usually closed.)

5. Who are you keen on?
Don't have time for that sh*t LOL sorry.

Seriously reconsidering this volunteer thing

This is causing me more stress than I care to have.

So out of the blue they say we have to issue a certificate or something to thank the group that did a community dog walk and a significant amount of donation.

That's paraphrased but that's actually all the information they gave me.

No WHO they were, no WHEN the dog walk was, they did say how much the significant amount was (it was significant, but also an amount that shows up regularly enough too, so it was hard to tell), and... that's it.

I ask them... what is it that they really want? A thank you letter? A certificate of appreciation? A receipt? As for the dog walk, when in June was it? (if it's a thank you letter I think it's prudent to write it in?). If it's a receipt, then that's not my job, but whoever does it will need to know the date of the transaction... I can see many transactions for that amount of money, but I don't know WHO YOU ARE DEALING WITH!????

Then they just screen cap some text exchange, and I see from the email is from a local bank. Oh boy, I just happened to know someone from that bank and recall this someone was actually the one that kick-started this community dog walk thing... so I reached out to her directly. Apparently she's on maternity leave and so not handling that anymore, but she was able to tell me, all they wanted was a receipt for their year-end audit.

Right.

Just a receipt. Which I'm not the one handling it anyway.

I drafted the god-damned thank you letter anyway. Checked all transactions for the month of June. Traced to the exact deposit of this donation. Sent back to them (the shelter people). They can add in the dates and whatnot themselves before they print it. If they don't edit the dates then it's on them, I've reminded them already that they need to edit those.

There's still a whole lot of stupid sh*t happening. Like sending me a screenshot of 2 transactions of $100 and $20, and then in writing (finger writing on a phone or ipad type of writing) $900 all *category*. I had to scratch my head.

So I asked, is the $900 a separate transaction?

Then they reply, no, just $100. What is the $900?

I reply back with a screen shot of their writing $900, and try to reconfirm, so just $100 and not $120 is *category*?

And they reply "it's $100".

I shall show you now, please tell me... is that MOP$900 or not? Are my eyes deceiving me?

Sorry to be crass, but I think this is a good moment to say, "I can't take this sh*t anymore."