And we haven't forgotten about getting a check in the mail to ya winmag.... going to do that this weekend.
Checks are always gratefully accepted. And I found a use for the last four HH "seconds". They're going to non-HH members who make donations, or those stubborn people who don't want one because "that's one less for the troops". Getting rid of two of them that way.
Gotta get with the dealer, and tell him not to sweat more "seconds" in the future. We'll find a home for them, although he takes a bit of a bath on each one.
[stretttttch...] Oh man... I'm back in da waterin' hole after a seriously monsterous week. [sip]
I am so, so, so, tired of Sorbanes-Oxley. I was tired of it before... but after this week... the workload of it has ramped up probably thrice what I thought it was going to be... and I thought already that it would suck. At this point it is a foregone conclusion that I'm going to fail the audit. All I can do now is try not to fail the audit in any "really important" ways.
I'm actually starting to get angry about it. This SOX stuff has been building elsewhere in the company for the last couple of years, but I only found out about my stuff in March of this year, and back then it was really badly underestimated. All they wanted to see was policies, and that is something that I have very nicely covered. The problem now is all about documenting daily activities. Not good news. Almost everything we do is done via phonecalls and email. Neither of which is sufficient documentation of changes. So now I need to document and prove that approvals were recorded for every single change made to any system, any time, any where.
Any systems? any change? anything? Are you KIDDING?
It is beyond stupid. If this stuff sticks my department will have no time to actually do anything. We will be swamped in documentation to the point where no actual help will ever be made available to anyone in the company.
I needed to start working on these things about a year and a half ago, in order to be ready. After this week, I've been informed of a whole host of new things that need to show a history of a year or more... things that I only found out about a couple of months ago, and a few of them only last week.
The audit begins in October. It ain't gonna happen.
Sometime in November I'm going to be making a presentation to the BOD, and it is going to suck.
I think I need a new job. This one isn't any fun anymore.
Hair, have you heard nothing from the FL HHDs?
I haven't even been inside to watch the news or anything. Has it made landfall?
Ok...I saw the posts from Ruthy and Sam...(I'm in a rush, Steve will be home any minute...took a lot of stuff to Salvation ARmy).
No recent word, though...