Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for February 08, 2010

“Do you have a receipt for those glasses? I don’t see them noted on your expense form …”

Genius idea, Wiley!

We’ll have 3-D glasses, The aspirins, we got spares….

Oh, I get it! Actually, maybe not. Somebody explain please?

accounting is one dimensional, without the glasses

@ LuvH8 – The glasses would make the bean-counters look like three-dimensional, humanoid creatures who might actually CARE about something besides maximizing profits for the corporate masters.

It’s all about the bottom line.

bean counters…

that figures…

Probably more surreal, too. Which might even be better.

ZenKroan: I resemble that remark.

Thank you - lobkiller, ZenKroan, BC13, & cartwrights!

Now I get it! Very funny LOL!

Bean counters love to move beans about, regardless of what is going on around them. The spreadsheet is King.

Ugh, I hate Accounting. They’re the ones that make my job so hard. As a systems admin it’s part of my job to protect the computers against malicious software, and the bean counters won’t let me install up-to-date anti-virus software because it would cost the company a high INITIAL payout to buy the necessary license. So instead I do what I can by hand and earn time-and-a-half for the work and cost the company more in a month than what they’d pay for a year long license. Intelligence and foresight must not be requirements.

@HighPriestMikhal, you need to budget the actual costs over the past year or two, and put that against the costs had you purchased the license. Show them the bottom line, and they might reconsider. Or take it over their heads and go to the CFO or CEO…

Is the bottom line what they’re sitting on?

@Bunnyface, if I had time to drive my (Power)point into their thick skulls I would. Plus I actually need the extra money, no matter how much I loathe earning it.