More Better
I had a Hallelujah!! moment today just before I left work.
I always kinda dread January paperwork-wise. There is a seeming mountain of year-end forms to file; W-2s are due; 1099s are due; inventory must be counted and organized into process-able formats. Once-a-year stuff is always harder to deal with because of just that—you only do it once a year and don’t always remember how you did it last year.
This year I have received information about electronic filing of the W-2 forms via the Internet, not just once but several times. I have perceived that they really would like for me to use that medium to file W-2s. Since I don’t have a good Internet connection at work, I thought I’d take the information home with me and attempt to do it from there.
So this afternoon I was going over the information and correcting some of the city tax amounts since the accounting software was compiling the base wage information incorrectly. I finally had all the information corrected and decided to print a copy of the information for each W-2 to take home with me.
I selected the Print function and it gave me an option to print it on a form or on blank paper. On autopilot, I selected the blank paper option because I haven’t received the actual forms yet. After the information printed, I pulled the papers off the printer and glanced at them to make sure they had printed correctly. I was expecting to see only the information that would go in the boxes once I receive the W-2 forms. I was not prepared for what I saw—a fully printed W-2, complete with all boxes and fine print.
Hallelujah!! No more trying to get the information to line up with the form only to have the top form line up perfectly and the bottom form out of line. No more possibly running out of forms because of all the ruined forms. No more dealing with thin crinkly paper. No more, no more, no more!!!
I’m always a bit disgruntled when the software company pulls their stunt of “you must upgrade by [whatever date] because Version [3 years old] will no longer supported nor will payroll updates be available.” But I guess that ultimately I’m glad ‘cause if they hadn’t forced me to upgrade I’d still be using Version 1999 that didn’t print W-2s (not to mention all of the other improvements that I use much more frequently than once a year), and I’d be as grumpy as an old bear.
I love it when things get ‘more better!’
I always kinda dread January paperwork-wise. There is a seeming mountain of year-end forms to file; W-2s are due; 1099s are due; inventory must be counted and organized into process-able formats. Once-a-year stuff is always harder to deal with because of just that—you only do it once a year and don’t always remember how you did it last year.
This year I have received information about electronic filing of the W-2 forms via the Internet, not just once but several times. I have perceived that they really would like for me to use that medium to file W-2s. Since I don’t have a good Internet connection at work, I thought I’d take the information home with me and attempt to do it from there.
So this afternoon I was going over the information and correcting some of the city tax amounts since the accounting software was compiling the base wage information incorrectly. I finally had all the information corrected and decided to print a copy of the information for each W-2 to take home with me.
I selected the Print function and it gave me an option to print it on a form or on blank paper. On autopilot, I selected the blank paper option because I haven’t received the actual forms yet. After the information printed, I pulled the papers off the printer and glanced at them to make sure they had printed correctly. I was expecting to see only the information that would go in the boxes once I receive the W-2 forms. I was not prepared for what I saw—a fully printed W-2, complete with all boxes and fine print.
Hallelujah!! No more trying to get the information to line up with the form only to have the top form line up perfectly and the bottom form out of line. No more possibly running out of forms because of all the ruined forms. No more dealing with thin crinkly paper. No more, no more, no more!!!
I’m always a bit disgruntled when the software company pulls their stunt of “you must upgrade by [whatever date] because Version [3 years old] will no longer supported nor will payroll updates be available.” But I guess that ultimately I’m glad ‘cause if they hadn’t forced me to upgrade I’d still be using Version 1999 that didn’t print W-2s (not to mention all of the other improvements that I use much more frequently than once a year), and I’d be as grumpy as an old bear.
I love it when things get ‘more better!’
posted by Sharon @ 9:52 PM
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