My boss told me I was "filing like a hoarder" and it actually made me stop

I used to just throw every receipt and document into a drawer and hope I'd find it later. Then my manager at this small accounting firm in Portland sat me down and showed me a photo of my desk compared to the other junior's desk. He said "you're spending 15 minutes per day looking for stuff, that's over 60 hours a year." I did the math and he was right, I was losing a whole work week and a half just digging through piles. Now I spend 5 minutes at the end of each day sorting things into labeled folders, and I actually found a tax deduction from last March that I completely missed before. Has anyone else had a boss call them out in a way that actually helped?

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evangarcia10d ago

Hell yeah, I had a boss do that to me once too.

wells.reese10d agoMost Upvoted

Man, tell me about it! @evangarcia, what helped me was straight up documenting everything. Every time my boss threw a last minute project on me I just jotted down the date, what they asked for, and how it messed up my other deadlines. Later when they tried to blame me for being late on something else I had proof it was their fault. It didn't make them stop but at least I had backup.