Andrew's Wandering Mind
This morning at 4:45 am local time, was the 10th morning I've awakened at my new apartment. Yay. Well, not yay for 4:45 am, but yay for overtime and yay for my new place.
I like my new apartment. And people (not just the rental agent) keep telling me it's a steal with the space I get, in this neighborhood. I tend to agree, after having looked at several other options nearby. Still a few boxes out and visible.. kind of embarassing on my 10th night here, lol... but pretty manageable. And even though it's almost 3 times as far to work, it only takes about 5 minutes longer than my old drive (only one left turn at a short light, the other four turns are right, and most of the trip is on I-95, as opposed to two lefts at long reds before.) And it definitely has
more character than the place on Powers. You can read that both as "nifty wood floors and big windows with lots of light" and as "creative definitions of 'level' and the occasional plaster crack on the wall." All in all, I like it. :-D
Speaking of being busy, right, so my staffing gig was two weeks long, then I got pulled back to the Home Depot department, this time as an audit analyst. Somebody noticed that I'm friends with Excel and Access (better with Excel) and don't mind digging through endless piles of paper (or online files) looking for details and errors. This is now officially an assignment (think: other duties as assigned) as opposed to a loan. I'm happy, though, there were 27 applicants, 10 were interviewed, and they picked two of us to replace the current person who's been working our nternal audits. We're going into our busy season with gardening and home repair becoming realistic tasks in more of the country than just the sun belt, so they wanted two people on to deal with the increased work load. We review for accuracy
a certain percentage of the fee adjustments on people's accounts, a certain percentage of our opened loans within a given dollar range and ALL of our opened loans above that range. We also make sure people are up-to-date on their "follow-up" accounts and do spot-checks of payroll and other things. Then we make up reports to show how all of that's going. At least we only do audits for Jacksonville's side of Home Depot Credit. Tennessee does their own. I haven't gotten the "oh no, Andrew's here, now what" look yet, but I'm still technically in training, so most people don't know to run and hide yet. Muah hah hah hah hah. Theresa, the current auditor is
efficient, accurate, well-respected, etc, so I'm really not looking to change that expectation.
And, oh goody, I got the ok to paint my living room, which should be fun when a certain guy comes over to help this weekend. Yay :)
