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I'd been tasked with streamlining submission procedures for GYMP-10 invoices by end of business last Thursday. The problem was that Sales Reps had been forced to vet GYMPs with up to three layers of management (depending, of course, on the Rep's Cost Center, Exempt Status and Pay Code). Management's thinking was that normalizing the procedures across Cost Centers would incent our sales Reps to penetrate new markets they would otherwise have written off as overly funded.

As you can imagine, this was a data gathering nightmare, and recent events sure weren't making it any easier. I know I wasn't the only one who got stung by wireless network failure with last week's whole Opening of the Skies situation. Worse, this alliance of the Twelve Kingdoms we saw so much of on the news would mean a complete re-write of industry compliance codes, and I couldn't even begin to sort out how many bodies we'd lost to the so-called Reckoning & Totaling deal. For those of us Left Behind, it was ramping up to be a real busy year, and not necessarily in a good way.