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Confusing!
Published on June 13, 2007 By Jythier In Work Reports
So, I was looking through a bunch of financial statements today. The statements appeared to not be in any order. It would have 2003, then 2004, then 2005, but within it the months were all scattered. Finally, it hit me - they were ordered alphabetically.

April, August, December, February, January, July, June, March, May, November, October, September. It makes no sense, yet that's the way it is. Since I'm crosschecking it vs. something else, I'm working backword - November, October, then September. It's not so bad, I only have to check the three, but still - the different departments are in alphabetical order, too, but not the thing I'm checking it to! What a pain in the butt.

Comments
on Jun 14, 2007
This was a company????
on Jun 14, 2007
My thought is this - they put everything on a disk, sent it to a printing place, and they printed it out in the order the files were in, which would be alphabetical. Also, there's too many columns for the page, so instead of resizing things to fit to page, they just printed 2 pages for each thing, without the categories or headings on the second page. That's what I THINK happened, but I'm only a one-year investigator, so I could be drastically wrong. Maybe that's the way hardcopies work for these guys. But, I can't see them getting anything done like this.