A Rare Work Related Entry

I have made it a personal rule not to blog about work except in the most general of terms.  That whole Dooce thing, you know. 

This, however, is too funny not to share.

I work for a company with seven employees, myself included.  I like that.  I like where I work very much.  As I've said before, no one has thrown a Nextel at me while calling me an idiot.   I haven't  thrown up before work.  I actually enjoy going to work and like my job and the people I work with are not insane. We have fun and seem to like each other.

Okay, enough of the back story.

We use Quickbooks for accounting and there are things that are off.  I know Quickbooks fairly well and indeed, have a love/hate relationship with the application.  However, we needed some outside help with some things that were downright puzzling.

Enter a local Quickbooks adviser, whom I'll call B.  B is about 70.  He's the sweetest guy, very personable and smart, but he's also 70.  He was just discovering the joys of Medicare Part B while I was going online for the first time.  He also is a bit hard of hearing, wears very discreet hearing aids.

After going through our Quickbooks issues for an hour or so, I suddenly morphed into Leslie.  He had been calling me Lisa but I became Leslie.

NOTE: Leslie?  What the fuck?

I couldn't look at Boss the Son, who was going over these things as well because I would have cracked up.  At one point, Boss the Son says very loudly, after B calls me Leslie for about the 35th time, "LISA" and B doesn't miss a beat, he calls me Leslie ten seconds later.

The door to Boss the Son's office was open so my co-workers could hear him calling me Leslie.

As soon as B left, the jokes started.  "Hey Leslie, you had a phone call!"  "Hey Leslie, I have an order for you!"  We were all laughing about it when B came rushing (as much as a 70 year old retired accountant can rush) back in the door.

He came rushing back in to apologize for calling me Leslie and said he knew my name was Lisa.  That was very nice of him to do that, but it doesn't give me great confidence in his Quickbook problem solving skills.

Not to mention, forevermore, I am Leslie at work.  The jokes abound.

Comments

[Michelle]

It's going to be really hard NOT to refer to you as "Leslie" from now on...

[Lana]

I won't make a "Leslie" remark... Just want to say I use QB at my work too and I hatehatehate it...!!! Grrr.

[Nadine]

That, Lisa, is a scream!

[Jenn]

Careful, there. I found you on this search: http://www.google.com/search?q=Howell+Mi+Accountants+Quickbooks&hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&start=20&sa=N

But that's not why I am commenting.

I'm here because my accountant called me 'Jenni' this morning and I am looking for someone to take on my accounting. Read about it here:
http://djinnthespazz.livejournal.com/1000368.html

I'm pissed. And I'm sure he's clueless.

Solidarity!