Liesel Is Employed!

Yes, its true, Liesel is old enough to work, and last week started her first job! She is working in a CPA firm (where I work) scanning files into the Document Management System (DMS).

The job has been a few years in the making... in 2004 the owners of the company decided that filing space was too limited and that the firm needed to go paperless. It was a rather hurried implementation and turned into a fiasco with some people scanning throughout tax season, and others giving up because of the additional time it was taking... The idea fizzled until a couple months ago, when I was talking with of the owners who had just come back from a class about paperless systems. I threw out the idea of hiring a couple of the teenagers of the employees over the summer to get the paperless thing going. She thought it was a great idea and voila... Liesel's first job!

She is taking 2005 and prior returns and workpapers from the file, mating the returns and workpapers by year, preping them for scanning, scanning into DMS, double checking scans for accuracy, putting 2004 and 2005 back into the file, documenting which years she scanned, and bringing to me to spot check. Sounds rather straight forward, but when you have 8 - 10 different people who put the files together, it can become confusing, especially the ones we call "Jane* Files" (*name changed to protect the culprit) - these are files where chaos reigns! Liesel figured out the scanner almost immediately, has the basics of the copier down, and is working almost independently in less than a week.

She received her first paycheck yesterday and today opened her own checking account - debit card and all.

She will only be working when school is not in session, but its enough to fill a much needed position in the office and give her really good work experience, a little spending/saving money, and the opportunity to experience budgeting money.

I think I am getting old... since when did Liesel become old enough to work?!