This site under reconstruction.
There has been a spate of articles about inequality, even from a food commentator in the New York Times. The gist is that during the last 30 years (since the 80’s, if not even the 70’s), most of the economic gains went into the pockets of the wealthy. Then, since the 2008 Great Recession, all of the…
Okay, it has started. The week before this week, we had training. On Monday of this week, we had our trial run. After the Monday meeting, my boss asked if it would be easier to do the report manually. She was already giving up? I told her that they just needed to try it out…
It’s been busy the last week and a half so I haven’t done much posting. Really, haven’t done much of anything but work. We did our training for the new report file and next Monday we start our trial run. The whole month of December will be testing, debugging, getting familiar, and finalizing process. Oh,…
Earlier this past week, I was trying to write up a macro program to delete a specific picture that had been copied over from a download. With the intent of keeping the process simple for the users of this file, part of the process involved copying the entire download, including a picture of a graph. This is fine…
About two weeks ago I was working on a project where we had to analyze the budgets for 30 properties to make sure they were realistic and contained nothing unusual. This was very sudden and we had about a week to go through all of the files and make sense of the historical data as…
So blares the McKinsey article titled “Getting More Out of Offshoring the Finance Function”, dated Nov. 21, 2014. The whole tone of the article seems rather breathless. Of course, I’m biased since I have been adversely affected by this trend. The economics of it is compelling: it is hard to compete against $5/hour wage. No…
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