The office, for the first time, felt calm today; the CEO visit passed, no internal audits were going on, and most of the administration staff took the day off. However, unlike all my Cheez-IT concocting comrades, I was handed more work and projects…
The day started off with rummaging through file cabinets! The white cheddar Chz-IT project wasn’t finished, and we needed more data points; being the lowly intern, I found all the files for Gary. However, afterward, I populated a spreadsheet that calculated all the metrics we needed to complete the project; I developed a few of my own metrics and created numerous graphs, as well as explained my findings to both the controller and Gary, so the file-rummaging turned out to be worthwhile.
Beyond that: macros. Gary learned that I enjoy programming, so he’s begun to look for excel macros that don’t work quite as he expected, and I’ve been tasked with fixing them! While Visual Basic for Applications isn’t my favorite language nor my strong suit, I am excited to attempt to fix a spreadsheet that’s been giving them trouble for months (apparently no finance employees know VBA, which makes sense: VBA hasn’t been in vogue for years).
The controller’s job also felt like it shifted overnight. No longer is it accounting like on days 1 & 2, nor is it just projections, now it’s interactions with other department heads to sign documents… and saying “no” when needed.
Not too much happened today, I’ll admit, but I’m excited to see how next week shapes out! I’ll be spending time with Lou, the head mixer, on Monday!
My favorite room on-site: the Chz-IT Quality Control Room.