TGIF?
I’ve recently started doing a large share of the bookkeeping where I work. Years ago, I was a full-time bookkeeper (I love that word - 3 sets of double letters right in a row - but, I digress). Now, it’s a half-time thing, since we’re such a small company.
Anyway, one of the things I’m doing now is paying the company’s bills. This requires me to print checks.
The trickiest part of printing checks is remembering how to load the check forms into the printer. To assist me with this difficult task, I printed a file folder label and stuck it on the front of the printer. It says:
LOAD CHECKS FACE DOWN
TGIF
HIGHEST NUMBER ON TOP
This is because the printer actually turns the paper over before it starts printing, and it prints the last check first and the first check last, so that when they stack face-up on the collection tray, the first check will be the one on top. But folks have questioned the “TGIF” part of my reminder.
Thank God It’s Friday? What does that have to do with anything? Do you not print checks on any day but Friday?
Actually, TGIF stands for “Top Goes In First”. Otherwise, the checks will print upside-down.
Now you know.
I got hired as a data entry person once and ended up doing all the bookkeeping since I was the only one who knew how to turn a computer.
I soon learned the only reason they kept obsolete okidata and panasonic dot matrix printers around was for checks, multi-part forms and to frustrate the hell out of the people forces to use them.
Hammer
31 Aug 06 at 4:21 pm
Hammer, we print multi-part forms on two old, Epson dot matrix printers. They work great, don’t give us any problems. But I’m having a hard time finding replacement ribbons for them … Staples will “special order” them for me, but no one keeps them in stock any more.
MG
MorningGlory
1 Sep 06 at 10:00 am