becka
<font color=green>Proud Mommy of sweet Nathan and
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After getting back in from lunch I settle in for what appears to be a pretty normal Monday afternoon. Then I get the e-mail. Late last year while working on state withholding taxes I discovered that our payroll system was not accurately calculating state withholding for a number of states and situations. We have been trying to get this corrected before 1/1 and I have been in charge of all the programming. Our HR VP and Director of Benefits has been working with me. Last week I pulled some data from our system that was used to send letters to approximately 500 employees in 7 states and agents letting them know that they needed to fill out a new state W-4 form and it showed was the number of federal and state exemptions that are being used to calculate their withholdings (Note: The # of exemptions being used to calcualte is often not the number of exemptions listed in the payroll system. Got all that?)
I get an e-mail from the Director of Benefits that on first glance makes me think I have made a BIG mistake and that about 2/3 of the letters that were sent out had incorrect data on them!!! OMG! OMG! OMG! How could I have done this? I was panicked and I was feeling physically ill...I mean I actually moved the trash can closer to me! I have to type up this big long e-mail detailed how I think I have made a huge mistake and I sent them the wrong data...blah, blah, blah.. The whole time I am feeling sicker and sicker. I send the e-mail to VP's and Directors and my boss, etc..
About 5 minutes after I sent the e-mail I go back into my program to see what I need to fix to get them corrected data when I get confused and I go back to read the original e-mail. Guess what? In my panic and confusion I had misunderstood the e-mail and the data I pulled was actually CORRECT! But of course by this time my previous e-mail had already gone out! ACK! I hurried to write another e-mail apologizing for my stupidity. How embarassing! I can't believe I did this still.
I am glad the data was good but I think I did some serious damage to my professional reputation.
I get an e-mail from the Director of Benefits that on first glance makes me think I have made a BIG mistake and that about 2/3 of the letters that were sent out had incorrect data on them!!! OMG! OMG! OMG! How could I have done this? I was panicked and I was feeling physically ill...I mean I actually moved the trash can closer to me! I have to type up this big long e-mail detailed how I think I have made a huge mistake and I sent them the wrong data...blah, blah, blah.. The whole time I am feeling sicker and sicker. I send the e-mail to VP's and Directors and my boss, etc..
About 5 minutes after I sent the e-mail I go back into my program to see what I need to fix to get them corrected data when I get confused and I go back to read the original e-mail. Guess what? In my panic and confusion I had misunderstood the e-mail and the data I pulled was actually CORRECT! But of course by this time my previous e-mail had already gone out! ACK! I hurried to write another e-mail apologizing for my stupidity. How embarassing! I can't believe I did this still.
I am glad the data was good but I think I did some serious damage to my professional reputation. 
I tried to hurry up but I still didn't get home until about 6:20 and then the kids were hungry so after I put up the groceries with the kids trying to help. Did you know Shake n' Bake goes in the fridge? 
In the end I didn't eat any and I dutifully put them away in the containers for tomorrow. I will eat one of them but I am going to wait until tomorrow for the goodie day so in the meantime I just get to smell them.....
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