My new boss told me today my job is easy!

8 replies

Nicky7611 · 14/04/2011 20:59

I run the payroll for my company with my colleague, paying a wide variety of staff, under several different terms and conditions. I have just finished a TUPE transfer of a company to our payroll and I deal with a wide variety of statutory issues, benifits in kind, pensions etc.

I also am 2 years into a 3 year degree in payroll.

And my boss who has been with the company for two months today told me my job was easy. When I tried to defend myself he said he doesnt want to know and walked off.

He has never looked after a payroll team before. He is the Head of Finance and a qualified accountant.

Is it me or is he a complete fuckwit??

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UrsulaBuffay · 14/04/2011 20:59

He, for example, is a twat.

fuzzywuzzy · 14/04/2011 21:00

he's a fuckwit, I'd be off sick next payroll run.....ok I wouldnt but it would be sooo tempting!

squeakytoy · 14/04/2011 21:00

It is fairly easy, until year end.

I have done it for 25 years.

Personnel usually get the shittier end of the job normally.

activate · 14/04/2011 21:00

volunteer to do a job swap the day that payroll is due out next month

oneofthosedays · 14/04/2011 21:00

Fuckwittage abounds, I would say YANBU!

FriedSpamButty · 14/04/2011 21:22

Yes he sounds like a twat but yes I can do the jobs that my staff do. I have to be able to incase they are absent and I have to take control. That's partly what I'm paid for.

You can seriously take a degree in payroll? Surely every company runs a different system with different rules on pay/expenses and uses a whole host of different accounting programmes??

MCos · 14/04/2011 21:29

Well, he may be Head of Finance, but his soft skills are shite, so he can't be all that great as a manager... Mr. Motivation, NOT.

northerngirl41 · 14/04/2011 22:18

It's a tricky job all right (I'm not a numbers person). And I bet you any amount of money you like that if you don't pay people, not very much will happen in the rest of the company because they'll be walking out the doors.

But it's only one small bit of the whole machine... Rather like the petrol for a car. Very essential, but not the same as the steering wheel or the brakes etc. Could he have been alluding to the fact that other parts of the company are just as important (but putting it in a very crap way)?

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