A legend of terrifying proportions...

I told my boss today that my brain was numb from organizing my files. Several posts ago I mentioned that I have a new drive to organize my work station to that when it comes time for me to leave, files would be easy to find and redistribute. That drive hasn't waned even the slightest bit. I spend a good chunk of everyday steadily plowing my way through both short- and long-term projects that I'd like to see finished, or as close to finished as possible, before I leave. So, back to my boss...she told me to stop organizing cuz I'm making everybody else look bad. LOL No one has time to do that stuff but I'm really trying to fit it all in, which makes me mentally exhausted by mid-afternoon (at which point finger painting would probably be a challenge! Ha!). I replied to her that I was determined to become a legend in the office that they would talk about for years to come. She said "you already are, my dear". (Isn't that nice? I do a lot of organizing though...I like to streamline things so people can become self-sufficient and stop asking me annoying, really simple, questions.) I told her then that I would become a legend of terrifying proportions. lol She thanked me for the warning.

My challenge of today, which will extend into tomorrow and probably for some time as I go through all of files one by one, was to go through all of my financial documentation and payment authorizations to note what date that particular document can be purged and shredded. Travel reimbursement documentation has to be kept for three years and payments to vendors must be kept for 1.5 years. My struggle came when I attempted to figure out how best to organize the documents. Do I combine them all and list them by purge date? Or do I keep them in their files by topic and then sub-sorted by purge date? I'm not certain how often someone might need to refer to them, but having them combined would not make it easy to find what they were looking for....but yet, keeping in their topic files would require quite a bit of drawer space. Ugh! I left everything sitting on my desk along with two piles of documents that I have neither sorted nor entered into the expenses database. Tomorrow may be a long day....