Showing posts with label paperwork. Show all posts
Showing posts with label paperwork. Show all posts

6.6.09

More Paperwork

Spent the whole day doing paperwork. Someone spent a lot of time and thought preparing these forms, it's a shame I have to mock them. It is really good, in-depth questions about a Wizard Constable who is a wizard. Ummmm.... not me, sorry.

(I heard the guy who had the job before me spent most of his time keeping the wizard apprentices in line. I'll go back to being a city constable before I become a dorm proctor to teenage wizards {shudder} .)

Anyway, the paperwork assumes you are a wizard (rank, spells known, any specialties). Nope. Then another form asks the same question again (favorite spells, power ranking, grades in your wizards class). Sorry, no. I twice missed a place that I was supposed to fill in, and had to borrow a pen and write 'Not Applicable' (again).

Then came the sort-of-fun part. The clerk took the form that will let me get paid to a guy at a desk in the back, and he put it next to some blank sheets of paper, and next I started sneezing - he was a wizard of course, nice of you to warn me :-(. When I recovered there were four copies of the form I wrote, even my handwriting (but not the dents in the paper from the pen; I looked.). So yea, I'll get paid!

Ok, working with wizards is kind of strange - haven't really done any work yet though. I'll find a way to patrol tomorrow, or at least get some exercise .

5.6.09

Tower Tour

Got a tour of the wizard's compound today. "Simples"* like me usually have offices far from the tower, but my office is a long narrow room not far from the tower itself. From the smell I think it used to be a storage room. I was given a beat-up but serviceable desk and a key to the door - as if a simple lock is going to stop a wizard from coming in!

I found a list of my fellow workers to visit on my desk, and so the morning was filled with instructions on how to do various types of paperwork. I can apply for reimbursement for almost anything if I'm willing to defend it to the High Wizards. --in other words, be damned careful and get receipts for everything. And Pergimtor likes reports whenever something happens, detailed reports. .

I'm going patrolling tomorrow - nothing to investigate yet, but I need the exercise.

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*Simples are what the wizards call people without magic. I had to bite my tongue a little when I heard that.