Today, our office had a mock audit before the real thing. I got warning note for not maintaining proper databases for last year's activities. I only joined a few months ago. FML
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Last call, bad decisions and 3 a.m. texts you'll regret until noon. Cheers.
Today, I was promoted as an auditor at an insurance company. After finding 9 compliance violations and over $15,000 returned incorrectly, I reported them to my manager. She blamed me for all the mistakes and fired me. These mistakes happened two years before I was employed with the company. FML
Today, on my first day off in over a week of working for my new job, and covering for a sickness at work, I get called into work for an audit… which we failed due to a lack of training. Where is the manager who's supposed to be training me? On holiday in Spain. Oh and my partner is considering divorce due to work. FML
Today, I finally finished our two hour long yearly compliance training at work. Not five minutes later, I receive an email from our compliance department, notifying me of a complaint against me. FML
Today, there's a company I want to get a job at, and I've worked for a long time to get in. However, I realized that in the test task I'd been doing for almost a month, there was a small mistake in my calculations that makes all my results false. And, of course, I'd already sent this task to HR two days ago. FML
Today, because I forgot to fill out a form, I accidentally held up payroll for the whole organization. Oops. FML
Today, my boss made me type up my own written warning, where I had to trash myself and describe my own "shocking incompetence". All the department heads are going to receive a copy of this. FML
Today, while trying to document another unfair incident, as well as suspected fraud in my toxic work environment, I accidentally replaced months of text in my document with a single period. Cloud backup saved over the actual note I needed. Months of diligence gone and I'll probably continue to be stepped on. FML
Today, I worked hard and brought few points to an important meeting at work. All of them were dismissed almost immediately. Now I feel an impostor fraud who gets paid for nothing. FML
Today, I got written up at work over false accusations that I didn't do some safety tasks. The same tasks that were done before I had even arrived. FML
Today, due to being stressed and overwhelmed by my tasks, I made a mistake and completed a few of my colleagues' tasks as well. When I informed my boss about it, he said that I did an outstanding job, but I shouldn't have messed with other people's documents. As a result, my promised raise is cancelled. FML
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michellellelle 11
Just go to your boss and explain what happened, they will understand and fix the situation
Chrysic 20
File a complaint and get ahold of someone that can help
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Tomryan279 10
While you weren't on the job the whole year you should have been given the data so you can review it and find any discrepancies. If you weren't then you should have asked for them. Not to be a jerk but the only way I don't see this being you fault is if you asked and asked and asked and never received the info. While this is a mock you should take the time to review the previous month
PhoenixChick 26
Maintaining proper records means tracking activities and recording info AT THE TIME for future reference. How do you figure that OP can go back in time and make sure the records were done correctly before they joined the company? If info was not recorded correctly, how can OP fill in gaps?
Tomryan279 10
My point was that he should have looked over the previous months info. It is his/her job to review and double check the previous employees work in case there is a issue with anything. If there is no problem great. If there is he can't bring the problem to his boss and then handle the issue.
PhoenixChick 26
Actually, it isn't anyone's job to review and redo all the work of previous employees in their same position. It's the BOSS's job to make sure employees are performing well, and perhaps an auditors job if the boss isn't capable. You are hired to do a job, not to do the job of everyone who worked before you. That's an amazing way of scapegoating whoever is the newest employee. I hope you get hired by a 70 year old firm and spend your days re-checking the work of the past 7 decades just to make sure everything was done correctly. Because, you know, otherwise it's your fault.
Bob_Gray 6
I'm with Phoenixchick on this one. If something comes up where you're made aware of past discrepancies, then by all means you should try to fix them. But to expect new employees to actively search through past files to make sure their predecessors didn't screw anything up is madness.
cathrope 10
What if the person that OP replaced had deleted said data and told everyone it want important, so the company had deleted it?
Tomryan279 10
I would still review the current year I the previous year on a big company and 2-3 years on a smaller company so your covered for an audit
UserError94 18
Although op isn't at fault for the missing data, he should have at least tried to get a hold of it and or brought it up with his superiors that there was missing data. If he was in charge of maintaining data bases he should have realized they weren't 100% complete. You have to see it as a magnate looking down at the problem. Something has come up in a particular department that's on grounds for investigation. How can this have slipped by? Op isn't the only one at fault. At high it's the company's fault. Then the department head, as well as his manager's. It trickles down until they find someone to fire or reprimand for publicity sake.
Shade1982 21
@18: Actually, in a lot of departments (like for example legal or financing) it IS your job to be able to present all current and past documents. For example, in a lot of countries companies have to save all financial documents for the past five years (number of years can be different, depends on country) for tax services for example. So it IS in fact part of your job to make sure past data is in order, even if it means you have to go through previous employees crap. Do you really expect one manager to do this? What if several people leave at once? Your legal or finances department would be so backed up, it would take months if not years to catch up...
mwali02 32
Well OP, this is a mock. Anything that happened with lasts years' data, refer them to your boss. As for the expectations for this year, moving forward, you now know what to do! Good luck! :)
steveali007 2
ok seems nobody gets what a mock is. it's there to give examples of what COULD happen or come up. what was sent wasn't real. like a mock trial in high school was used to teach what the court system is like. it wasn't a real trial. this wasn't a real audit. it was a training.
Tikaani96 15
That's exactly what I thought when I read this FML.
Shade1982 21
Just because it was a mock audit, doesn't mean the note should be disregarded. It still means something was out of order and should be handled before the real audit happens.
mjtg25 3
tell your boss what happened and explain that you only joined a few months ago. I'm sure he would let you off the hook. or alternatively you could go to the department of your business that writes the notes, but I think your boss is a better option. I'm sure he'll let it go.
asiansapphire 10
get the issues fixed before the real show starts.
Britt125 16
Okay, but it's a mock audit. It's just preparation/practice, not the real thing. If it concerns you that it could come up in the real thing discuss it with your boss. Kind of what this is for... to learn how to handle it... so go discuss it and learn how to deal with it. It's not a big deal.
ADBurns 22
Technically... This is your bosses responsibility.. It would / should be him/her that would get fired #justsayin
Shade1982 21
No, it isn't. Responsibility lies with the job function, not the person. The note was sent to this person, because this person is currently in charge of this. They can't really send a note to the one who did it before, can they. In an audit, something like this doesn't mean "you didn't do a good job", it simply means "this data is currently not in order, you need to get it in order". And since it's a mock audit, why would you get anyone fired over this? If you suggest firing everyone who was responsible for failing an audit, a LOT of people would be out of a job. You'd be surprised how many companies don't have their sh*t together. It's the whole reason audits exist.
infinitemonkey 21
That the way audits work--they look at the function, not the individual in the function. Don't take it personally (but do discuss it with your boss).
twitchtail 21
I feel like a moron, but I don't understand most of this FML, could someone explain?
infinitemonkey 21
Twitchtail, there are different kinds of audits, the most common being financial (by an independent accounting firm). It's to evaluate compliance with regulatory and standard business practices. So as I said before, it's not personal for an audit to find that your job function didn't follow a procedure (just as a government audit wouldn't say "oh, your company didn't collect sales taxes, but since that was the responsibility of someone who quit everything is OK.")