As titled, getting fairly busy. What can I ask my admin to help me with? Can I ask her to mail my letters/bills? Anything aside from dealing with the normal travel expenses? Buy flowers?
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What...are you an analyst? Regardless, why are you still mailing physical letters/bills?
get your bills on autopay broseph, it's the 21st century. also, I appreciate mailing physical letters if you're sending a thank you note to a 70 year old or a card to your grandparents, otherwise it's unnecessary. I check my email all day but I check my mailbox (work & personal) maybe once a week, use email.
also, flowers.com was built for people like you who are to busy to go to a florist and hand deliver those things. personally, I'd recommend edible arrangements, they're pretty and utilitarian. flowers are just pretty, and then they die, sort of like expectations of being an analyst at a BB.
Cheers.
If you're taking longer than 5 minutes to pay your bills, I think you have some issues that your admin won't be able to help you with!
If anything, you should be sending your admin flowers instead of asking her to send flowers so that when you do ask her to do stuff she might even put aside something she is working on for someone else to take care of your request.
Lets just say you have your bills set to auto pay, then you get incorrectly billed for something. If you don't ever look at it and just automate everything you will likely never notice it. Its really not that hard to pay your bills online. You can put all of your bills in your online bank account and take 3 min to verify them all and pay them.
I'd also like to expand on this. I worked at a credit union for 3 years and I've seen some terrible things happen to people that was out of their hands.
These are not all that uncommon either.
Scenario 1 - Friend of mine wasn't living paycheck to paycheck but didn't keep a lot of excess in their checking account (this is back when savings accounts actually paid interest). He paid up front for our soccer team and then we were all paying him back. Well, they triple, yes TRIPLE charged him for the league fee. Which then pretty much wiped out his account, and then his mortgage and a few other things all got bounced that were set to autopay, and because he used autopay he didn't check his checking account ever 3 minutes and didn't notice that he owed a lot of money until all the notices started coming in.
Scenario 2 - Customer came in because she was a victim of fraud. She had a tad over 10 grand taken from her checking account. She noticed faster that her money was gone as she couldn't use her debit card anymore due to not having any money. All of her autopays had to be cancelled and she got charged a few fees for bouncing the payments etc.
It takes me about 5 minutes every month to pay all of the bills for my fiance and I. I'd rather do that than have to go through the trouble of dealing with the above if anything happened.
ah good point. I have a system that I think works well and effectively accomplishes the same thing. I also review every expense in detail on a monthly basis so I catch any discrepancies. in addition to that, I pay for everything I can with plastic so I don't outlay any cash. it's easier and less of a fire drill disputing a charge that was paid with credit than if you paid cash or check for it.
just looked at my bills, I noticed I only have my power bill auto insurance and cell phone on autopay. everything else I get an email and just pay it when it's due. takes no time at all.
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I have all my utilities + car + cell bills on atuo pay. Credit card & mortgage bills I pay manually online every month and literally takes 30 seconds. Still don't see why you would be physically mailing in your payments...
Maybe your admin can wipe your ass too.
No point to this thread at all.
Instead of autopay, use prepay that most banks offer. You set it up with the bank rather then the company you are paying. Takes away all the risks
This must be a troll thread.
If you're new to the job and start leaning on your EA to do this sort of personal account stuff for you, it's likely she/he will push back heavily on you, if only on principle. EA's often do this for more senior staff, but not often for juniors unless you have a very good relationship.
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