Re: Freeze.Panes revisited

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> Three so far: a) petty cash/cash payments, b) overestimating her (and
> the others') hours, and c) tacking $$$ on to her pay, b/cs she thinks
> the old geezer is still asleep.
>

You would be amazed how easily a staff person can cash your insurance and
patient checks into her own account. You would be amazed at how much can
disappear from the office in supplies. You would be amazed to find your
staff recommending patients go down the street to see someone else when you
are not around.

Buy a time clock and have everyone "clock-in" and "out" each day.
Otherwise, you have to personally initial their time sheets for every "in"
and "out". An alternative would be for you to be the first one in the
office each day and the last one out each afternoon. Personally keep a log
of what time each employee is ready for work and compare it to what they are
reporting.

CHANGE THE LOCKS NOW ! You open the front doors before they get there,
and they will not even notice (unless they are playing games). You lock up
after they leave. If they notice, tell them that you think your office key
was lost or stolen, so you had the locks changed as a precaution, and have
not had time to make copies of the keys for them yet. Since you are not
certain if they are going to get keys, you have not made copies for them
yet, so no lies told.

There are plenty of very nice software packages on the market which will run
payroll for you. Some even have provisions for a "time-clock" feature. Use
it !

I hate to ask, but who pays the bills in your office (has control of the
check book) ?

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Amatus

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"StovePipe" <stove99pipe@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Amatus Cremona wrote:
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>>>
>> If you cannot trust her with petty cash, you MUST get rid of her NOW !
>> As,
>> there is no way you can possibly trust her to do anything else right. Do
>> you know how many different ways she can steal money from you without
>> hitting the cash ?
>>
>> Amatus
>
>
> Three so far: a) petty cash/cash payments, b) overestimating her (and
> the others') hours, and c) tacking $$$ on to her pay, b/cs she thinks
> the old geezer is still asleep.
>
> a): don't know yet, but have put in place your suggestion that any
> monies in/out of petty cash have to be recorded in ink in the ledger.
> It has to balance at days' end.
>
> b): at least three hours last week (I calculated 37.5 hours liberally
> last week, and she is billing me for 42.25 hrs for herself and the
> assistante. The hygieniste billed me for 32 hrs, which is about right.
>
> Which means: I have to take them ALL to war, as they are ALL in on what
> has been happening, whether or not they have been letting the secretary
> do their hours. This is why I could well end up alone for awhile:
> You've already said that a dentist can run his own show with an
> IsoLight and a connected computer in each treatment room, and that's
> where I'm heading in smaller scale with my XL routines. I am meeting a
> lady who has already approached me for secreterial work, and I'm gonna
> talk to them all either tomorrow or Thursday. The other two get the
> schedule plus 1/2 hour for set-up and 1/2 hour for take-down, but
> that's it.
>
> c): I saw about 1900$ (before the dumb-ass erased the entries and tried
> to correct them, but that was _after_ THIS dumb-ass woke up in time
> enough to photocopy those pages before and right after that, and send
> them off to himself in the form of recommended letters...), and the
> accountant phoned on the cell phone today, and said he figures that
> there is about 900$ taken the same way last year. This is because I
> gave him a set of photocopies as well, and I asked him to corroborate
> or refute what I saw ('Cause I STILL cannot believe it, and I almost
> wished he would have told me I was wrong, but I'm not...).
>
> He also said that this is the tip of the mess.... they don't usually
> start by doing passes like that, but by diverting funds. So, this is
> only since she has become audacious enough to do that right under my
> nose. (My own fault, of course...).
>
>>Do you have any idea how many patients you can lose by
>> her having a less than stellar attitude ? You need to give her all
>> moneys
>> owed up to tomorrow, give her any owed vacation pay or personal time,
>> give
>> her a week or two of advance wages, and tell her to have a nice life. If
>> you wife did not trust you, would she let you sleep in your own house ?
>> Does the farmer let the wolf sleep in the chicken coop ?
>
> Nope. The 'wolfe' is on her way out prolly, this coming Wednesday or
> Thursday. I'm gonna face her with it and record the conversation. I
> haven't decided yet whether I'm gonna do it with her alone or with the
> three together. I'm gonna talk to the locksmith tomorrow.
>>
>> You don't need any staff. You only need yourself. Staff are only there
>> to
>> make your day easier and more pleasant. When they stop doing that, it is
>> time for them to go. P-E-R-I-O-D !
>
> Right. As for the other two, either they keep track of their hours as a
> function of the schedule, or we pack it in. I should add that the
> dentist from whom I bought this little shop from worked ALONE, no
> assistant, and shared the secretary staff with the old batch of Mad
> Dogs. He sent his bills out via the MAIL... (!).... I sure don't wanna
> go THAT far back into history...
>
> In a later post, W_B said that I wasn't comfortable hiring/firing
> staff, and he's right. If it were _me_ alone, I'd prolly drag it on
> till after Xmas. But, as it is, I keep thinking back to the summer we
> had, and how shitty it was apart from the trip down South, and how my
> kids couldn't do what they wanted to, as there was no $$$, and that is
> when she hit me the hardest, and the red comes back into the backs of
> my eyes and THAT is what I keep reminding myself of as I go through the
> day. She hit me hard when I was down, and now she will pay. :-/
>
> <The Pipe sets his chin>
>
> No more time to respond to your other posts right now, but I will, and
> I will use those ideas for negotiating with the owner/pharmacist....
> 'Specially the idea that Amatus wrote about how the secretaries will be
> horsing around in the common secretariat...
>
>>
> Thanks Gang..... Good news coming soon .... :-/
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> SP
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