Background: I'm responsible for managing our office's budget. I dread looking at the reports every month because it's fucking tedious.
Whenever invoices come in, the receptionist will process them, kick them up to the office manager for first level approval. Anything above $1,000 gets kicked up to me for approval. It doesn't take a lot of time, but it's just one more thing to do.
So before my office manager went on maternity leave, she asked if I could do the first level of approvals which she is usually responsible for. I said fine.
But holy fucking shit, I get at least 20-30 requests everyday. Our receptionist is new and scatterbrained. Instead of ordering a bunch of stuff at once, I get invoices for a box of paper, 2 boxes of paper, a bag of mints, 2 cases of water... I asked the receptionist to consolidate her orders, but nope, still getting multiple a day. Fucking tedious and takes me away from my main work.