Power crazy manager

CBR

Thank you for your reply Anihilator you have finally put my mind at rest and I will let the matter drop, it really seems quite unimportant now and I shall carry on and ignore the situation.

I was just a little worried that perhaps the company would think I was not performing well although the investor has never asked me anything about myself and isnt aware that I am a part qualified accountant, the phones are the priority.

Thank you

jessicamb

if you are a part qualified accountant and still studying you really need to find another job or you wont have enough experience to become a fully qualified accountant. In the meantime though you could use the time you are not working in studying for your exams. Even if you are not studying maybe you could use your skills to help on the finance side - sales/purchase ledger calls, preparing journals and reports, cost/expense control could all be fitted in around your other duties.

You are obviously keen to have something to do so I suggest you look at what you think needs doing and just get on and do it - as long as it needs doing and is vaguely within your remit then your manager would be a bit mad to stop you getting on with it. If the company is small then there will a lot of basic things that wont be in place that you could easily assume ownership of. Off the top of my head I can think of a purchasing process and maybe budgeting.

The only thing I can think of that is stopping them giving you other things to do is that more responsibility should equal higher pay and they may not be able to afford it.

Zazen999

Anihilator wrote: »

Well that answers the lot. A company needs someone around all the time to answer the phone. They may struggle to find other work for you (or not want to) but they still need the phones answered full time.

I agree; they just want someone to answer the phone and to make the office manager feel like she is managing something.

Crazy but I'm sure it is nothing personal for the OP.

CBR; I'd try and get fully qualified whilst you can [I did my degree plus a post grad dip in management despite working 50 miles from the office and managing a full team plus 5 ESF projects both at the same time], so use this to your advantage; be good whilst you are there and then find another job when you are qualified. Could you do some accounting for family, friends, local businesses to gain your quals?

Their loss.