Promoted, Kingon Style

fatbastard submitted 363 days ago

Back in '89-90 I was working a second job doing some filing for a temp agency in their corporate office in Englewood, CO. My main job sucked and I was looking for another opportunity. The reason I got the job was because I had previously worked with their bookkeeper at my sucky main job. I did a good job with the filing; I'm a hard worker and have more than two brain cells to rub together.

After I finished the filing work the accounting manager, boss to the bookkeeper that hired me, was sufficiently impressed enough to give me some data entry work (a bit of accounts receivable and payroll). After a few weeks the bookkeeper, a classic blond dingbat, went on vacation for two weeks. While she was gone I filled in doing more of her job, including payroll data entry.

It was then that I found out from the accounting manager that there had been lots of mistakes in the bookkeeping and that the bookkeeper had been blaming me. I didn't get fired because during her vacation, the mistakes had stopped.

The bitch had thrown me under the bus. Well, it was on.

I challenged the accounting manager. I told her to give me all of accounts receivable and give the bookkeeper all the payroll - don't mix the two between us. If there are any mistakes in the A/R I would leave quietly without any hassle. But if there were payroll mistakes, I wanted the bookkeeping job. She accepted the challenge.

You can probably predict what happened next. The A/R was perfect and payroll was full of mistakes. The bookkeeper was fired and I was given her job and eventually had a new title and more responsibility: Assistant Manager of Accounting.

Kaplah!