Bricks

Seriously - how hard is it to do things correctly?

I spent all of yesterday (9 hours) and most of today (about 6 hours worth) trying to get all of the bricks in our MJ Rowles database to balance to their correct levels. Now this can sometimes be difficult with our everyday bricks, such as common bricks and exposure grade bricks, because all yards stock them, and sometimes they get taken from the yards instead of being delivered straight from PGH in Sydney.
But what about the bricks that we don't actually stock? the ones that people order 30,000 of, and then only get about 2000 delivered at a time? It really can't be that hard to make them all add up correctly, can it.

Well apparently, yes, it can. Because 15 hours of my week has gone into TRYING to balance them. And they still aren't completely correct. Bloody hell that is frustrating.
The result? Well, sometime in the next two weeks I am going to devise a system that stops this from happening. Because it just can't keep happening. It can't.