Tuesday, July 13, 2021

When It Is @CWPFairfield's Busy Season, I Look at My Photos and All I Have are the Receipts Collected for all the Programs

I often refer to it as receipt porn. 

The University moved to digital everything, so rather than tape to white paper, photo copy, and fill out a form, every purchase I make for my work now is photographed on my phone and uploaded to a digital platform. Accountability. I get it. I also remember how I would stock pile receipts on my desk and pray they would still be there for when I processed them all at the end of summer. Now, I'm more ritual about a weekly receipt check-in, especially as items arrive. It makes it easier.

What is more complicated is deciphering between the grants, funds, and lines that each purchase is to be billed for. Imagine keeping a checking account x's 10, having to keep in your head all the items you're buying, for what, and from what funder (all while paying teachers to run programs for youth and running a program for teachers...with no administrative assistants).

Phew. Thank the Great Whatever for Staff across campus who step up and in to help CWP when it's needed. I am forever appreciative of their help.

Yes, yesterday began youth labs, and afterwards I decided to go through my phone for receipt photographs, so I could account for every one of them. I know it is supposed to save work doing it this way, but it creates work, too. And as they get rid of more and more humans, it is harder and harder to process the materials needing attention.

I am just so, so, so thankful I love the work I do for kids and teachers; otherwise, this would all drive me absolutely insane (which it does...hence this post).

Ah, but there's work to get done.

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