BigCo: Where you're a number, not a name!
This memo just came out from someone in accounting here at BigCo:
Your vendor number is xxxxx. This vendor number needs to be on all expense reports in the proper slot. We no longer pay employees by name but by vendor number. Without this number on your report, it could slow down the payment of your report. Thanks for your help
You're certainly welcome!
I would HATE to slow down accounting with pesky personal info, or any other human pleasantries.
It's too bad the memo referred to employees, though. Our new CEO (or, as he puts it, our "CEO and Coach" -- I kid not!) has made a big deal about referring to us as "colleagues."
I guess that makes me Colleague #xxxxx.
:)
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Will your bank cash a check with just a number in the "Pay To" field?
Posted by Tom Hanna @ 16:17 on 08/10/07
Ouch!
Posted by whilo @ 16:47 on 08/10/07
We Houston Chronicle labeled anti-urban rail Luddites have adapted.
798,514
Posted by Royko @ 21:05 on 08/10/07
Tom: I honestly think they prefer we use direct deposit for the things. Routing number, account number, and vendor number -- who needs a name?! :|
Posted by Kevin @ 21:10 on 08/10/07
Especially:
The award for the longest name for a person belongs to a German immigrant to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The name he was given at birth, and which somehow fit on his passport was:
(First and "middle" names)
Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert
Irvim John Kenneth Loyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy
Randolph Sherman Thomas Uncas Victor Willian Xerxes Yancy
Zeus
(Last name)
Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorffvoralternwarengewissenhaf
tschaferswesenchafewarenwholgepflegeundsorgfaltigkeitbeschut
zenvonangereifenduchihrraubgiriigfeindewelchevorralternzwolf
tausendjahresvorandieerscheinenbanderersteerdeemmeshedrraums
chiffgebrauchlichtalsseinursprungvonkraftgestartseinlangefah
rthinzwischensternartigraumaufdersuchenachdiesternwelshegeha
btbewohnbarplanetenkreisedrehensichundwohinderneurassevanver
standigmenshlichkeittkonntevortpflanzenundsicherfreunanleben
slamdlichfreudeundruhemitnichteinfurchtvorangreifenvonandere
rintlligentgeschopfsvonhinzwischensternartigraum
Senior
In case you didn't notice, he has one given name for every letter of the alphabet plus his surname. Needless to say, he shortened it, and was commonly known as Mr. Hubert Wolfe, though officially it was said that he signed his name Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff, Sr.
Link:
http://www.everything2.com/...
Posted by Royko @ 18:27 on 08/12/07
"CEO and Coach" -- I kid not!) has made a big deal about referring to us as "colleagues."
I hate it when executives go to seminars. Somehow they always manage to return with even more BS than when they left.
Posted by The Dude @ 06:52 on 08/13/07
This memo just came out from someone in accounting here at BigCo:
Actually, it IS the accountants who are responsible for this type of thing.
In the future if you could refer to yourself as "blogger 2258452" when commenting on my blog I'd appreciate it.
:D
Posted by Cory @ 11:56 on 08/13/07
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