On Tuesday, February 2nd, the Finance office will be closed to the public from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. for the Munis upgrade. The system will be down for everyone, us included. However, Finance staff will be available to answer phones for non-Munis-related questions.
If you need to come to the Finance Dept that morning, please go to the door with the big "No Admittance" sign - it's the second door if you come in the front door of the building, the third door if you come into the building the back way.
Please knock LOUDLY and someone will let you in. Only if no one comes after knocking, please call us on your cell phone (410-548-4845). However, we ask that if it is at all possible, please postpone your visit until after 2:00 pm. when the public doors will be open once again.
Thank you for your understanding!
Editor's Note: The County is paying for upgrades to its accounting software that was supposed to make things easier for the finance department as well as the rest of the County. It was supposed to reduce man power in the finance department and allow easier access to financial information to all County department. However, it has yet to do hardly any of that! So far, the finance department has not reduced staff, in fact, it has requested more staff. A lot of the accounting responsibilities and procedures have been re-allocated to various department. So, essentially, this fancy expensive software has succeeded in creating more work for various department staff throughout the County, but has not alleviated the workload of finance personnel. Don't you find this to be a little strange-to purchase new software that spreads the workload to County employees that ARE NOT qualified accounts, but yet it does not reduce the workload or work force of the finance department? Part of the deal with this software was that it was supposed to make things easier and reduce manpower, but all it has managed to do is create more work for more employees and misplace $3 Million in roads funds!
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The software didn't lose the funds. The idiots who use the software lost the funds. And the fellow idiots and supervisory idiots who are supposed to reconcile accounts let the first idiot do it. Having worked in accounting and fighting to reconcile discrepencies of a few dollars (regardless of my pay)because it's the right thing to do, I can't imagine how anybody competent could not realize that this kind of money was unallocated on the general ledger.
ReplyDeletePollitt get someone in there immediately to fix this. I bet you will find more money>
ReplyDeleteI guess from the phone # that we are talking about Wicomico?
ReplyDeleteThese upgrades should be done on the weekend as in industry. PERIOD.
ReplyDeleteEven if you have to allow the employees to leave during the week to make up the time.
Yes the few in IT and Finance responsible should come in on a Saturday.
You make 60K PLUS 35% benefits because you are a "salaried" employee. That should not include comp time but should include the time that it takes to get your job description DONE.
Keep in mind that during this down time no-one gets access the system in any of the departments. None.
ReplyDeleteSo you inconvenience any employees that deal with the system in any way....probably 50 or so people AND the public so you can save maybe four people from having to come in on a Saturday. Now that's value-added and common sense!