Hey there, Ramius. Lucky you, no work tomorrow!
I'm dreading tomorrow since I have a stack 4 inches high of new hires, pay rate changes and various other maintenance. I'm getting a new client: 6 payrolls, 400 employees total - almost a hundred different departments and job costs!!
YIKES!!!
A hundred departments with only 400 employees? Yikes... lots of really small depts I guess?
Ah, with job costing [snif] brings back memories. That's what I started out doing for this outfit many many moons ago. [snif] Ah... cost allocations... yep, like an old shoe.
You'd get a kick out of this... I dunno if I've told this story before (I do that, as you may have noticed) but back when I was actually writing programs (i.e.: being productive) for a living I wrote a fun little program that was designed to pull all the payroll data for direct deposits out of the accounting system and build the ACH (automated clearing house) file, then dial a modem and transmit the file to Wells Fargo bank.
The program ran in DOS, and was called the "Automated Clearing House Output Organizer", or of course: ACHOO.
One of my prouder moments. :-)