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Of Honeysuckle and Haiku [Tech x Fem!Reader]

Warnings and Information: This is my submission for an event hosted by the wonderful @cloneficgiftexchange, written for @apocalyp-tech-a. I hope you enjoy my first Tech x Reader! 2nd Person POV, undescribed Fem!Reader who works as an analyst/researcher for the GAR. Minor AU changes (no missing and/or dead Clones here (but Echo is still part of CF99)!). Prompt sentence/s will be orange to keep in line with the color scheme of the graphics. Tech has a “secret” crush on Reader that she knows about. Flirting is stored in the info-dumping/poetry. Star Wars and real-world swearing is as naughty as it gets. Some Mando’a. Brief references and allusions to injury and other canon-typical violence, and a small flashback where Reader’s senior colleagues are (implied to be) behaving like jerks to Tech, but nothing explicit. Use of stylistic and narrative italics. Fictional flowers. 

Prompt: Can't we ever go to a nice place? | Oh, that's what that button does.

Word-count: 8,270

Another Primeday, another pile of notes in your locker. 

That's how the weeks always started. 

You worked closely with the Grand Army of the Republic as something of an analyst and unofficial bookkeeper, going on for two years now. Colleagues and work-friends would slip scraps of flimsiplast in the ventilation grooves of your locker as a way of non-electronic communication.

The old fashioned way, older department heads joked. 

The flimsi stacks contained a mishmash of written comms. Inside jokes. Recipe trades. Reminders to get CT-6922’s helmet serviced for the video feed you needed for Jais in the Reverse-Engineering Department if they're ever going to find out how that new Separatist spider droid worked. 

And a poem, written in spidery Aurebesh lettering from your “secret admirer”. Always the top of the pile that collected at the bottom of your locker. 

You knew full well who it was after a while, piecing together all the clues he'd strung along for you. Game recognizes game, as they say. It took cracking a complicated cipher in order to- 

Nah, who are you kidding? 

You got impatient and asked Jais in R.E.D. to help you with scrubbing the security footage for the last person to stop by your locker one morning, finding a haiku waiting for you. A haiku regarding subject matter you had just been discussing with a colleague the other day who had a grueling day of carefully dissecting a Flame Beetle from Kashyyyk ahead of them, and you were slated to assist them. 

The shimmering shell  That conceals a beetle’s wing Is called elytra  - I wish I was a beetle 

Mild alarm that someone was messing with you turned to curiosity soon after; it had been Tech of Clone Force 99 who dropped the poem into your locker some weeks ago. 

He'd been helping the analysts while he got his leg in working order, having broken both the tibia and fibula of his left leg in a skirmish. (That's about as much as you knew at the time.) Tech would be returning to fieldwork sooner than later; between check-ups and some physical therapy work, the genius and navigator of CF99 kept himself busy here, so he would still feel useful to the GAR while recovering. 

Of all the analysts Tech assisted, you seemed to be his favorite given that you actually liked letting him help you, and didn't saddle him with a dull day of deskwork like some of the senior analysts who wanted him out of their hair. 

You felt it was incredibly unfair to Tech, but there was nothing you could say to change their minds. You'd tried. 

Instead of reading this week's new stack of flimsi notes from your weekend off at your locker, you decide you'll read them at your desk for a change. The smell of Tech’s typical caf blend is particularly inviting this morning. It’s been raining since last week, this morning the hardest yet. Thank the Maker you had a rain repeller in proper working order for the walk to the research center from the speeder cabs. 

“Good morning, Tech.” 

Sitting down, from around the other side of the desk, you can see he's in a walking boot now. An improvement from when you last saw him just two short days ago. 

“Hey, that's a good sign! Think you'll be back with the rest of the Bad Batch soon?” 

You take no offense when his eyes do not lift from the screen of his datapad. “Good morning. I suppose, yes…” He doesn't sound entirely enthusiastic like one might've expected, but you have enough of a grasp on his mannerisms by now to know that Tech is eager to return to his brothers in due time. 

You've met the rest of his squad on a handful of occasions as they've come to check on him, making sure he's not missing all the action by keeping him up to speed on their exploits. 

Smiling, you slide a cup of caf you believe to be Tech’s closer to him as you leaf through the notes from your locker. 

“Don't let your caf get cold.” 

The datapad drops away. “That is for you,” he explains, “if you desire to try it, that is. I recalled you expressing interest in the last blend of caf I brought in, saying that it smelled good last Taungsday.” 

You blink, surprised he remembered those details. Well, not that surprised; you understood Tech had a remarkable memory that allowed him to recall obscure details. It’s saved you from a few headaches, like that same Taungsday when a visiting representative from Glee Anslem insisted upon having the innocuous bouquet of Nabooian Honeysuckles sent off for allergen testing. Whatever it was that provoked the Nautolan’s (thankfully minor) allergic reaction, it was not the flowers, though they were refused return. 

Shame… the delicate white, orange and cream blossoms were such a thoughtful gift from Senator Amidala to the visiting representative and now they look so out of place on your desk, still in the elaborate ceramic vase they came in. You’re going to need to find a way to return it to Ms. Amidala once the flowers have shriveled and lost all their silky petals. 

Thanking Tech for the thoughtfulness behind brewing you a cup of caf, you give it a careful taste and find the flavor far more robust than the instant mix the breakroom keeps on hand while you read the first of the notes. (Looked to be a heads-up that a commando had some grisly footage to be analyzed because Trandoshan pirates were involved and the credits were on Delta Squad being responsible.)

“Mmm… That’s nice. Thank you again, Tech.” 

“You are welcome.” he replies, half-ducking his head back down into the datapad, though his eyes remain on you. 

Framed by the yellow lenses of the black-strapped goggles he wears, there is an observative nature to those brown eyes. The phenotypic eye color for all Clones is brown, he explained to you once. Though yes, there were a few aberrations in physical traits among his brothers in the GAR, just not quite to the same scale as the experimental squadron that Echo from the 501st Legion (once thought to be dead) joined not long ago. Echo still keeps in contact with the 501st, Captain Rex and a brother named Fives the closest of all. You figure what he must have been reading off his tablet before he came in this morning were more messages from his brothers. 

Setting aside notes as you read them, you’re careful to keep the scrap of poetry for last as always. Wonder what it’ll be today. A sonnet? Free-verse? Acrostic or maybe a limerick? Another haiku? Tech seemed to love leaving you haikus most of all. 

Still finding his eyes upon you, you lay aside the last note about keeping an eye out for a missing label-maker and delicately clear your throat. “Yes, Tech?” You’re careful to offer him a friendly smile, a quiet measure of assurance that you’re not annoyed or disturbed by his watchfulness. 

“Senator Amidala sent a letter of apology to the center regarding the honeysuckles and vase,” he begins, explaining the letter was forwarded to everyone who worked in the analysis department, “and since she feels terrible about the situation inadvertently caused for both her guest and the center, she suggested someone is welcome to keep both, if they wish.” 

“Well that’s very kind of the senator.” you reply, giving the flowers on your desk a look of consideration, one that prompts a strange expression out of the genius you generously share your desk with. 

You ask what the matter is with another swig of caf. 

“I hope you don’t mind too terribly that I… accepted on your behalf.” Tech confesses, aware he’s more than likely crossed a line by doing so. You and Tech do not know each other all that well, but he’s strung together enough clues to have some idea of what you like. He’s noticed what you give the most attention to, and you had secretly been admiring the Nabooian bouquet for some time on Taungsday… 

Cautiously, Tech adds, “You could always give them to a friend.” 

Casting a third glance over the tri-colored flowers, Tech is assured that won’t be necessary, and he’d been correct in his assessment all along. “I don’t mind at all; thanks for saving me the trouble. I was secretly hoping to take these home, I’ve been obsessed with Naboo for a while now…” you admit, dropping your voice into a near-conspiratorial whisper. 

There was an often sunny windowsill back home with plenty of space for the vase and flowers that would make for the perfect spot to show both off. Maybe it’d inspire you to finally take that trip to Naboo you always wanted. Naboo sounded like a nice place, nestled in the Chrommell system of the Outer Rim Territories. 

Idyllic, picturesque, it was often described. 

All this analyst-work had you in a position to see the glorious, the gory, and everything in-between in the adventures of the Grand Army day in and day out. Compiling reports near and far was beginning to instill a sense of longing for adventure in you; nothing grand was necessary, just something different. Something beyond the walls of the GAR research center here among the Core Worlds. 

I’ll be satisfied with a taste of adventure. Just one bite. Just one, I promise. 

The yellow-lensed goggles are adjusted. “What fascinates you so much about Naboo?” Tech asks, curiosity burning at him. 

“Oh… I dunno,” you say with a shrug, smiling, “it’s hard to put it all into words.” And you wouldn’t exactly have the time, either, with your shift due to start soon. While you’ve still got the time, you should finish as much of the caf as you can before it grows cold, and finally get around to this new poem Tech’s left for you. Maybe he can already guess that you know these are from him, but a part of you finds it fun in some way to pretend you don’t. 

Fixing an errant strand of hair back in place, you unfold the note and read. Another haiku, today, lamenting the dreary weather. 

To simpler splendors  Like summer's gentle breezes and honey most sweet - When will the rain stop?

You find it curious and strange - this possible complaint - given you know Clones come from the storm-cloaked world of Kamino. Surely this weather feels just like home for him; familiar, maybe even comforting. But maybe it’s not his complaint, it could have been your own off-handed remark from some time ago that he’s echoing back to you now. 

Tech’s level of observation was truly incredible, sometimes. You already felt yourself missing his knowledgeable presence once he was healed up and returned to the Bad Batch. That wouldn’t happen until he was rid of the walking boot and cleared for active duty, which was mildly comforting to you, selfishly speaking. Logically you know this arrangement is temporary, and you will not always have your willing assistant. 

A willing assistant who has given his attention to closing off communications with Wrecker, from the sound of things as CF99’s genius reads the messages under his breath. Tech is trying very hard to appear like he’s not taken notice that you’ve read his latest haiku. 

You set the poetry aside along with the other locker notes, and pick up your clipboard full of the day’s tasks. “Take your time, Tech.” you promise, chuckling warmly as he flashes the famous pointer finger in your direction, requesting just an extra moment. “I know Wrecker misses having his big brother around.”

Tech says nothing in response to your teasing quip, only offering an appreciative if distracted smile before he’s ready to help you with your tasks for the day. 

On Primedays, the first item of business on the list is often the most nerve-wracking of all your assignments, today no exception.

“Dammit, I grabbed the wrong screwdriver… Would you mind handing me the… the, uh…?” Tech takes the incorrect screwdriver from your fingers and replaces it with what you need while you struggle to think of the name for the correct type, much to your relief. “Oh, thank you Tech. Will you need this back when I’m done?” 

Tech nods, a silent promise it was no trouble. “I will not. I’m finished with what I needed it for. Feel free to use it as long as you need.” He does not need to remind you to go slowly. 

Your first research assignment of the morning involves dismantled bombs, and the additional Clone tucked in one corner of the room clad in the bright orange of ordnance specialists serves as an eye-catching distraction rather than a precautionary measure. Nicknamed Reddy, this Clone trooper is only doing his job, of course; he’s supposed to be here as part of the protocol. This facility has gone one thousand and twenty-seven days without an explosive incident, which is a comforting number, but there is no room for complacency. In the unlikely event a bomb somehow reactivates, Red Wire is here to snuff it out for good. 

(Or tell everyone to evacuate and seek shelter if he somehow can’t.)

Helmet clipped to his utility belt, Reddy is reading the printed report, bobbing his head in time to some jaunty tune he’s got stuck in his head. “Disarmed and partially dismantled by… CT-9903. That’s your squadmate Wrecker, right?” 

“Correct.” Tech replies tersely, hoping not to prove himself distracting to you. He’s only standing as close as he is to give or take tools as you need them. 

Reddy nods his head in approval of the work scattered over the examination table. “He did a good job. Definitely has the gentle touch needed for bomb disposal.” Yes… Wrecker certainly had steadier nerves than yourself right now. You would prefer not to have shaking hands, no matter how incapable this bomb is… should be… of going off. 

“Reddy…”

He catches the warning. “Sorry, ma’am.” 

You just need to pull off a particular durasteel plate, and take detailed pictures of a unique section of wiring to enter it into the GAR database of known bomb constructs and find close or exact matches. Then Reddy has the pleasure of disposing of the remnants for you. Fewer distractions while you remove notoriously fiddly screws, the better. 

So why are your hands still shaking now that you should be able to focus again? 

“... dammit…” You’ve worked yourself up about the unsteady nature of your hands now. Stress will only worsen it, prolonging the tremble. Setting the screwdriver aside is the best course of action until you can find your nerve. 

Rational thoughts, you remind yourself, everyone has had this happen to them at one time or another. 

“May I?” Tech offers, voice softer than you ever remember it being before now. 

He is careful in offering to help without immediately trying to take over your work. Tech recognizes you are capable in all the various aspects of your job, and he does not wish to undermine or blow off your expertise. He understands from experience how that can be frustrating, even disrespectful.

And Tech aims to be very respectful of you. He's been very careful in how he's hinted his interest in you thus far. (Maybe too careful.) The haikus in your locker had been because he heard you liked poetry, and he proactively accepted the honeysuckles Senator Amidala offered for the trouble because he thought you might like them. Sharing his favorite blend of caf was a decision more premeditated than the other two.

You step to the side, accepting the offer. 

“Thank you, Tech...” you say, gesturing to the tools in an unspoken measure of please, by all means. Tech takes position where you previously stood, and begins to work on the dismantled explosive. Long, dexterous fingers make the process of loosening and extracting the remaining screws look deceptively easy. 

“You’ll want your datapad soon,” Tech suggests helpfully, soon down to just two more corner screws to remove. 

“Oh, yes…!” 

Scooping the tablet off of the examination table, you habitually skip your fingers across the reactive transparisteel and pull up the camera function, priming everything to capture the colorful chaos of wiring and circuitry inside once Tech has removed the panel. Once it is lifted out of the way, Tech side-steps to allow you in front of the bomb once more so that you can capture records for the GAR database. 

However, the camera will not focus.

“Strange…” You tap the center of the screen, hoping perhaps the datapad will behave like your modern comlink and auto-focus, but it does not give you the result you hoped for. You chuckle somewhat bashfully. “Sorry, it’s… been a while since I’ve used this old datapad for taking pictures.” 

“Press the red, center button on the top row twice.” 

Taking the advice of the bespectacled Clone beside you, the image on the screen comes into crisp focus, not a detail lost. “Oh, that’s what that button does.” This tablet is an older generation, but the facility keeps it because it's sturdy and reliable. No sense in replacing perfectly good technology so long as it continues to work. 

“Been using these tablets for ages and I never knew that. How'd you know that?” Reddy asks from the corner, safely voicing his curiosity now that the hard part is behind you. “Just real tech-savvy, I take it. That how you get your name?” 

Tech smiles knowingly. “Learning the ins and outs of each machine I use is crucial to my effectiveness in service of the Republic. Much in the same way you're here to assist the researchers, analysts and reverse engineers in bomb identification, in some cases.” The second question goes unanswered, you notice, but Reddy seems to let it go. 

“Hah, can't argue with that comparison!” he says agreeably, his smile sunny. You’ve always liked that about this particular member of the bomb squad; Red Wire has an optimistic disposition and general attitude despite the nerve-rattling nature of his job. He’s not terribly jaded or gruff like some of the other Clones on rotation at this facility. 

Once you've collected all your necessary pictures, you are promised that he'll take it from here. “Good work as ever ma'am. I'll clean up while you get started on the search.” 

“Thank you, I appreciate the help as always from both you and Tech.” you say, patting him on the shoulder before you follow after Tech, who’s already making his way back to your desk, neck craned over his datapad. Stepping past the blast doors to catch up to Tech, you breathe a sigh of relief while Red Wire begins the disposal process, the hardest task of the morning behind you. 

“Glad that’s over,” you say, finally feeling your quickened pulse slowing at last, “Thank you for the help once again, Tech.” You’re certain he heard the first thank you, but extra gratitude never killed anyone. 

Tech’s deliberate stride slows to match with yours. “It was no trouble. I thought you might want the help.” A polite smile breaks the veneer of the usual expression of thoughtfulness and concentration you’ve become accustomed to in the time Tech’s been here. 

You’re very familiar with how he appears when he’s concentrated: the furrowed brow, his shoulders rolled forward, the subconscious setting and unsetting of his jaw as he mulls over a million thoughts. Wowing your colleagues with how he could extrapolate info from separate, complex datasets within multiple windows on the screen of his datapad without error. 

The way his brown eyes, deep and dark, looked like honey when framed behind his goggles…

Sitting down at your desk where you fire up the database you’ll be working with, already you see the slight furrow of his brow as Tech takes his seat on the other side, trading messages with his squadmates while he elevates his leg to alleviate the pressure of the walking boot. Tech misses being out there in the field more and more with every passing day. 

“Tell ‘em I said hi.” you request with a soft chuckle before allowing him to concentrate on keeping himself in the loop. You just have to hope his handsome face painted in deep concentration doesn’t prove too distracting for you as you cross-reference your wire samples. The squad leader of the Bad Batch, Sergeant Hunter, had teased Tech once a few weeks ago, when he dropped by with Echo, on the depths of Tech’s concentration. That’s when you’d truly taken notice of it for the first time.

Tech, utterly embroiled in some “little” project he’d created for himself here at the research center, was staying long after your scheduled hours, repeatedly promising that you really don’t have to stay here. 

You turn another page in your holomag. “I’ll be fine staying here a little longer. I want to make sure none of the senior analysts bother you. Again.” It was a slow Zhellday afternoon you had no other plans for, and a couple of people a little further up the chain of command really had a bug up their ass about Tech’s presence here today in particular, continually complaining about an incident with his crutches.

Someone hadn’t been looking where they were going and bumped into the mobility aids propped against a wall, knocking them over this morning. Unfortunately, there had been a tray of glass instruments set aside nearby that did not survive the crutches’ sudden descent. The senior analysts, most of them much older than you, wanted him thrown out of the facility and have the agreement with the GAR that Tech would be here until his broken leg healed nullified. 

“He’s got a broken leg! Is he supposed to just hobble around the lab without his crutches? It was an accident, but I’m starting to suspect you’re looking for excuses to get rid of him because you’re feeling threatened by his intellect!”

Clone Force 99’s second-in-command hums shortly in delayed response, a frown marring his otherwise concentrated expression. Tech adjusts his goggles as he pours over some reference. The man with partial skull iconography inked across his similarly tanned face next to Tech carefully nudges him with his elbow. 

“Tech, this is when you’re supposed to tell the nice lady thank you.” Hunter warns him, teasingly of course. He’s gotten back from a long deployment, and rather than going to the nearest mess hall with Wrecker and Crosshair, he’s come to check up on Tech, finding that he’s still at the GAR research center. He’s too tired to give any kind of reprimand just for the sake of appearances. 

“Especially after this morning… Don’t make me do the nat-born thing, vod.”

Tech sort of scoffs, the threat of referring to him by his CT number, like a misbehaving natural-born child hearing the use of their middle name, by his brother having little effect. 

“No thanks necessary, honestly.” You turn the page to your holomag, skimming the article to see if it’s worth an in-depth read, then meet Hunter’s eye. “It was honestly a bit cathartic to have a go at those jerks.” Decrying them as jerks to the squad leader of the Bad Batch was putting it real mildly given your true thoughts of them right about now. 

Echo gives you a knowing nod. The sergeant smirks, and this is what gets Tech to break his silence. 

“Don’t, Hunter.”

“Glad you made a friend, Tech.” Hunter says it with complete sincerity, so far as you can tell. Leaning back in the borrowed lab chair, Hunter kicks his feet up for a moment on a corner of the desk to adjust some parts of his armor. “Wrecker might get jealous.”

“I think we all would.” Echo says with a kind chuckle.

“Plenty of me to go around,” you promised the three of them, “I love making friends with the GAR.”

A few hours later, now four items deep into your checklist for the day with the wire cross-referencing behind you, you lean back in your chair and stretch your arms above your head, feeling something pop with great satisfaction. “Mmm! That felt good. Hey, Tech?” He nods to show he hears you, at which point you continue. “I’m thinking of running home real quick during lunch to take the honeysuckles home so I’m not wrestling with those on top of everything else I’ll have to take with me tonight. You gonna be okay on your own for a bit?” 

“I will be fine.” he assures you, sliding the clipboard from “your” side of the desk over to his. “I may need the password to your desk-mounted computer terminal, however.”

“It’s ‘naboofields’. All one word, no capitals, special characters or letters.” 

You root around your desk for one of the seemingly innumerable sticky-flim pads you possess, scribbling down the password - just in case - as neatly as you can before removing the top flimsi-note and hand it over to him. Honeyed eyes blink once in mild surprise after he inspects your handwriting. 

“Not very secure, I know.” you laugh bashfully, straightening a few sheafs of flimsiplast before gathering up the stack of locker notes to tuck them in your pocket. Busywork to avoid any kind of lecturing look. But when you meet his eyes for the moment before wondering how best to pick up the ceramic vase full of beautiful tri-colored honeysuckle, you find no disappointment. Only more curiosity. 

“Have you ever been to Naboo?” Tech asks. He’s noticed this particular topic has been cropping up a lot between the idle doodles on flimsi scraps of the bulbous Shaak grazing through lush emerald fields and little reminders you’ve written to yourself scattered across your desk lately. Ticket prices. Best time of year to go. Popular festivals. Fashion. You were weaving a curious pattern.  

Tech doesn’t do this very often, but he hazards a guess. Could you perhaps be… homesick?

“Were you born there?”

You shake your head. “I wasn’t born there, and I’ve never visited before. Naboo’s just some… silly dream of mine lately.” 

“Why do you say ‘silly’?” The question is earnest and sincere, and Tech sits forward off the backrest of the lab chair, posture straightening out. “Has someone said something unkind about your desire to see Naboo?” He couldn’t imagine why someone would disparage this; many galactic citizens express some level of desire to visit this planet in the Chrommell sector at least once in their lifespan. 

He’s assured there’s no one being unkind to you when you wave him off, sliding the vase across your desk carefully. “No one other than me, I guess. I dunno when I’d ever have a chance to go visit between the work I do for the GAR, plus being in the middle of the Clone Wars for stars’ sake…” You’re considering if it would be worth telling him about your developing case of wanderlust, your craving for a taste of adventure. (Just a taste… just a taste!)

What Tech was supposed to do with that revelation, you weren’t sure. Did you want his help planning this whimsical trip? Or did you just need to confide in him with this harmless little secret? 

“Would it be impolite to presume you don’t have many vacation days accrued in order to enjoy a short holiday?” Tech assumes you’re well aware of labor laws the GAR has to comply with for civilian staffing, like yourself, but he has no means of knowing how much PTO you have stored up without rooting into the system.

“Karabast, I- I hadn’t even thought of…” Your thoughts trail off as you look out one of the rain-spattered panes of transparisteel and determine you need to stop by your locker to gather your weather wear and rain repeller. When was the last time you had some extended leave from work that wasn’t a sick day, anyways? “I have some PTO I’m owed, but I try to be smart and save it for emergencies… I, uh, think I have more than two week’s worth.” Truthfully it’s been some time you looked at the amount of PTO you’ve accrued. It very well could be less than you remember, or more than you imagine. 

Tech makes a quiet murmur of agreement that saving the time off for emergencies is rather smart, shrugging after a stretch of clearly contemplative silence. “I was merely curious.” The statement makes it tempting to tease him in return, say something like aren’t you always? but he has something more to say before you work up the nerve, gesturing to the clipboard. “May I watch the helmet footage for you while you take the Nabooian Honeysuckles home?”

“I was warned it was grisly.” you caution him out of kindness, thinking back to one of the locker notes. “So, as long as you don’t mind or won’t be bothered, I suppose you can look at the footage for me… Credits are on it being sent from Delta Squad.” 

Scrutinizing the datadisc, Tech finds RC-1207 etched into it. Commando Sev, he tells you, went missing on Kashyyyk for a month early in the war… (Thank the Maker, his pod brothers had been fortunate in finding him.) Sev has never spoken of the experience. 

“This should prove to be fascinating, in some regard.” Tech speculates, slotting the disc into an external inspection device to set everything up to complete this in your absence. Goggles are adjusted every so slightly, changing the way they are seated on his face. “I’ll leave the notes for you on your desk by the time you return.” he promises. 

You make sure you’ve gathered the last of your things, saying that you better get going now that everything’s agreed upon. Carefully cradling the vase in the crook of your arm, you arrange the bouquet slightly with your free hand to avoid bruising any of the velveteen petals as you carry it. 

Turning on your heel, you head for your locker to collect your rain repeller. “Appreciate it, Tech, thank you. I’ll catch you later.” 

“Watch out for the deeper puddles, don’t slip.” Tech calls after you. 

He’s overheard many of your colleagues using this phrase the last couple of days to warn one another; the longer the rain’s gone on, the deeper the areas of rain retention have become since the water table is oversaturated. There has been no break in the weather, but the end is in sight. 

‘When will the rain stop?’ Soon. Maybe even tomorrow.

Habitually, you call back that you’ll be careful and another farewell, flashing him a sunny smile as you head out the door for the speeder cabs, the honeysuckles in one hand, repeller in the other. You don’t expect to be gone long.

Taking the vase full of honeysuckle home is your highest priority, right along with making sure the flimsiplast scraps in your pocket remain dry. Flimsi, while conveniently reusable, was hair-thin, had a slight transparency to it, and dissolved in water. (Why some disposable gowns for med centers were made out of the acrylic material when it was kriffing semi-transparent you had yet to figure out.) If you were careful of the shifting winds before you got to a speeder cab, Tech’s poems would stay safe and dry in your pockets, joining the others in a box of precious keepsakes at home. 

Maybe you could put them all in a scrapbook one day, able to read and admire them all at leisure, or whenever you miss having new haikus show up in your locker once Tech’s broken leg is fully healed and he rejoins his brothers. Tech’s been careful not to voice how much he’s come to miss his brothers - else he risks sounding ungrateful for the research center agreeing to let him assist there after much back and forth - but you know he’s getting somewhat impatient. 

“If I had known a second BX droid was around the boulder, I wouldn’t have tried to kick the first over the precipice…”

“That’s how you broke your leg?”

“Had it broken for me when the commando droid grabbed me, more accurately. Better me than Echo…” 

He’d return to his brothers in time with the whole of hyperspace at his fingertips. Hunter would get his second-in-command back. The Havoc Marauder will have both of her pilots and it won’t be Echo spending time alone in the cockpit. Wrecker and Crosshair will once again have their brother to parse through factitious scenarios and the complicated mathematics necessary to pull it off relating to their enhancements to help one another in staving off hyperspace hypnosis. 

And you’d go back to dreading Primedays and dreaming of clover covered plains on Naboo between every string of data you analyze for the GAR once Tech left. You’d miss the extra pair of capable hands and his talented, dare you say exceptional, mind. You’d miss the presence of yellow-lensed goggles and the steady, red light of the cylindrical camera attached to them that sometimes followed you around the analyst lab, that were as much a part of Tech’s face as the rest of his features. 

You’d miss him and the harmless little crush Jais teases you over since helping you find out who your secret admirer was. 

“Swing by your locker lately?”

“You have better eyesight than a Mynock but all the subtlety of a Reek, Jais. Yes I saw he left me another haiku.”

“What do they say?”

So much by using so little. 

Tech has just seventeen syllables to work with, but boy does he make them work. 

They will last far longer than any tender blossom, tucked carefully on the windowsill and lovingly arranged to fill in the gaps in the bouquet during transport. Home only for a short time, you settle for tucking the new haikus and other notes on the low table in the living room to sort through later tonight while eating dinner. 

Come to think of it, maybe you should invite Tech over for dinner sometime, while he’s still here. (While there’s still time to leave things behind in order to remember him by.) He’s been staying in temporary accommodations in the unofficial research district since the nearest GAR barracks are an hour away, and the district isn’t too far from your place. You’re not sure what the protocol on this is (or if there’s any), and he’s more than welcome to turn you down, but-

This harmless crush has gone beyond only going one way. 

You’re going to miss Tech when he leaves, not just because it means you'll lose an eager assistant who shares what he learns while you work. You've grown to like him in ways you haven't devoted proper time to exploring why with the nature of your work, but you like Tech too. And you don’t want just a vase full of honeysuckle that will one day wither and a smattering of haikus to remember him by. 

You want something more. Something meaningful before he goes back to making mayhem for the Separatists. 

And maybe it can start today, if you're clever enough. 

It's time to stop daydreaming.

When you return to the research center, you first put your rain repeller away in your locker and collect the few notes that appeared while you were out. No new poems, only warnings that one of the senior analysts had a bug up their ass the size of a mynock (scratch that, a bantha) again over something minor, and it's best to stay out of their way until they cooled off. 

“Hey, Tech, I'm back.” You announce your return from the lockers to avoid potentially startling him, finding him fiddling with a part of his vambrace. “Got some cryptic notes in my locker. Feel like I missed some excitement while I was away.” 

“Yes… You certainly did.” One of the analysts lost their temper with the ‘newfangled’ caf-pot in the break room, Tech explains. Nothing newfangled about it in truth, it just wasn't working because it had been unplugged for cleaning and someone just forgot to leave a note. 

“Speaking of notes,” he says as an aside, procuring a printed message from Lieutenant Waxer of Ghost Company in the 212th, “This came in just before you arrived while I was at the copier.” 

Giving the lieutenant’s request a once-over, you find a general greeting after the Grand Army of the Republic’s letterhead, asking if someone would mind helping him locate the origin of a particular word in the language of the Twi’leks. Printed requests are deemed non-urgent, but it’s simple enough that you don’t mind adding his query to the bottom of your daily checklist, on which you find only the helmet footage crossed off. 

“Thought you’d have gotten more done than this.” you say, chuckling as you take a seat at your desk. 

Tech adjusts his goggles and meets your eye. “Felt it would be impolite to take your work from you when we had an agreement for just the footage.” He returns to fiddling around with his vambrace and his datapad, perhaps trying to sync something up. 

His concern of taking further work from you without asking is very kind, and rather touching. You feel warmth in your face disproportionate to the heating system warming the labs on this rainy day. “Oh. Well, I wouldn’t have minded too much, but thank you. What’d you do instead until I got back?” You figure it didn’t take all too long to study the commando’s footage, finding the notes Tech’s took for you pinned underneath the datadisc the feed was stored on. Lifting the high-tech paperweight, you give the notes a glance. 

It’s the same thin lettering as the haikus. 

Tech tuts in thought while snapping a part of his vambrace back where it belongs. “General research. Nothing important.” He does not immediately elaborate on what he had researched, thinking you may want to take a moment to mentally prep yourself for returning to work and start on the next task at hand. 

They were not concerns he (often) had to keep in mind with Hunter, Echo, Wrecker and Crosshair because he knew them so well compared to other people, compared to you. They spent the most time together and could give him a playful ribbing for overstepping boundaries, or starting detailed explanations when it wasn’t the best time. No one cares! was often said in-the-moment, and apologized for in ways that did not involve the words I’m sorry - and that was normal with his brothers. 

So when you break into a big, friendly smile and draw out the word “Liiiike…?” while you continue to settle in, Tech knows it’s okay to elaborate. That you seem interested in what he has to say. 

“It was the origin of halliksets. I became distracted when I learned they were quite popular on Naboo, and spent some time looking into that instead.” As he expected, you perk up with the mention of Naboo, interest piqued. “They’re made with seven strings, and the ore commonly used to make them comes from Kreeling, a mining planet also within the Chrommell sector.” The ore seems to be used to decorate the rounded body of the instrument, from what he had been reading. Ornamentation rather than function. 

“Huh,” you say politely with a smile to match, “I had no idea. That’s really neat.” 

You thank him for sharing before agreeing that perhaps you should get started on some of your work when he warns you that he can hear someone from another department coming, and it may be wise to appear busy. 

For the next fifteen or so minutes, you and Tech are careful to appear focused on tasks from the clipboard. Something about figuring out why a standard caustic compound utilized by the GAR didn’t work. Tech casts a subtle glance over his shoulder while you muse over the specs, wondering just like you why someone from another department is taking their sweet time to leaf through all the disposable pipettes in the storage cabinet of all things. Trying to eavesdrop? Just really particular about their lab supplies? Who karking knows. 

While looking into the humidity record on Felucia the day of the recorded equipment failure, you take a moment to open the system you submit your time-off requests to and look at the amount of paid time off accrued. Two and a half weeks. That’s not bad. 

“Good to know….”

“What is it?” Tech asks.

“Oh, just poking into weather records,” you hum, hiding the portal, “Seems the caustic compound failed because of higher than average humidity that day. It was under six months old, so I don’t think it was a product age failure.” From the flashpoint of the Clone Wars on Geonosis, much of the equipment utilized barely sits on a shelf any longer than six standard months after its production and purchase for the Grand Army. 

Clones were clever. Well trained. They knew how to account for things like planetary climate, weather conditions and equipment age out in the field, but you’ll always have the occasional fluke. Things beyond your control, beyond what you trained for. (Some things you could never train for.) But the Grand Army of the Republic could be trusted to give it their all, no matter the occasion, no matter the challenge. 

You trusted men like Red Wire with your life here in the labs when you had to work with disarmed bombs, never doubting his ordnance training for a second. The same goes for the man sitting on the other side of your desk from you now, the injured leg in the walking boot propped up in a spare chair. You trust Tech too. 

When the personnel from another department finally leaves, they’re grumbling something venomously about the missing label-maker under their breath, the word “di’kut!” loudest of all. 

You recognize the Mando’a. Pronunciation DEE-koot. Multiple meanings. Idiot. Useless. Waste of space. (More accurately a waste of their time… Pretty sure someone already said the label-maker wasn’t in there.) You wonder where they know the word from. 

Speaking for yourself, you’ve picked up a smidgen of the language from working as a researcher and analyst, and you’ve added a few more words to your repertoire from Tech’s uninterrupted correspondence with the Bad Batch that he’s allowed you to see some of. 

And speaking of them… Now that you and Tech are alone, this might be a good time to try putting your plan in motion knowing how much PTO you have to work with now. You want to go to Naboo, and you want to see if there’s any way you can convince Tech to go with you. Maybe even meet you there with the rest of Clone Force 99. Make bumping into them look like a coincidence. 

“Hey Tech, when you return to your brothers, any plans or ideas on where you’ll go first?” 

A pad of sticky flimsi-notes is pulled from one of the many drawers of your desk, and you root around for a working pen while you wait on an answer. Calling upon courage from the very heart of the cosmos, you hope you can pull this off. 

Tech answers the break in relative silence with a quirk of his eyebrow. “None that I’m aware of, but I suspect we’ll be going wherever we are needed.” There is a long contemplative pause, eyes flicking to his trusty tablet more than once as a few new messages from Wrecker come in. 

“Is there some reason you’re asking?” He pushes the datapad aside now, giving you more of his attention, which is appreciated. 

Shoulders bounce. “What if I said I was just curious?” You don’t expect him to buy that, he’s too clever. But you need a moment of quiet contemplation on his part to count out the syllables without messing up. Once you’re certain you have five, then seven syllables, you flash him an easygoing smile. “Being curious isn’t a crime, is it?”

“On some planets it is. Some rather… ridgid, often self-isolated cultures across the galaxy view curiosity as a sign of an idle mind and fear it will inspire mischief. Free thinking. Rebellion.” 

The question had been rhetorical, and you don’t mind that he answered, but you find the fact quite sad. You also don’t want to begin to imagine how that sort of “crime” is punished. Curiosity is a natural part of life to all, to criminalize it is… frankly ridiculous.

“Well good thing we’re not in one of those isolated cultures.” you say, now thinking how you’ll finish penning this poem. Should you add your reasoning for why you wrote this at the bottom? (Would you even have room?) Maybe you should just tell him after he’s read your poem instead. 

“Agreed.” Another message comes in from Echo this time, but Tech ignores it, continuing to hold eye contact with you; almost like he’s performing an inspection. “So I hope it does not feel like an accusation when I say I don’t believe you are ‘just curious’.” 

“I did have an idea…” you admit, fiddling with the pen in your hand for the moment, “Since I heard Clone Force 99 isn’t keen on following every little order…” This is when you choose to slide the haiku you were working on over to “his” side of the desk, waiting in nervous silence as brown eyes scrutinize every Aurebesh letter laid bare before them. 

Can't we ever go  to a nice place, verdant fields  of spring eternal? - Feel like breaking a few rules?

Tech’s eyes lift from the flimsiplast note, looking surprised. He didn’t take you for the sort of person who’d encourage breaking certain GAR protocols, let alone… Your name falls from his lips, asking what this is about in the same tender tone. 

“I thought about what you asked regarding how much time off I have, and I found out I have two and a half weeks…” You explain, fiddling with the pen some more to occupy your nervous hands while he continues to monitor you. “I thought… Maybe once your leg heals up, and you’re cleared to return to active duty, you could find an excuse to spend some time on Naboo. Get to know each other better, perhaps?” He clearly has some kind of feelings for you that are in the earlier stages of reciprocation, and if you’re away from the lab, and he finds the time or the excuse to nip down to the Chrommell sector and meet up with you on Naboo, then neither one of you have to worry about behaving quite so professionally. 

Looking down at the haiku once again, Tech takes in your explanation, your invitation, and offers a mild chuckle at long last.

“You know what my brothers will say if I tell them about this?”

You swallow nervously. “W-what?”

“That it almost sounds like you’re asking me on a date.” 

You do what you can to keep your jaw from dropping, but there’s little to be done about the fiery feeling building in the apple of your cheeks that suggests there may be color blooming there. If you’re blushing, Tech certainly does a splendid job of politely pretending he sees no such thing while he gives your poem another look. 

You do the same in kind when additional color builds in his own face and crawls up his neck from under the top of the body suit. “I take it you figured out who was secretly leaving you the haikus.” His smile is timid, but not quite as nervous as your own. 

“I did. A while ago, actually.” you confess, confirming his suspicions. “I had help checking the cameras to see where the first one came from. I didn’t see a reason to say anything, or stop you.” You add that you’ve kept every single one, too, to some surprise of the computer and weapons specialist sitting across from you. 

He sits forward now, carefully easing the walking boot to the floor. “You really want to spend time with me on Naboo?” Your earnest nod surprises him further. You do. Out of millions of Clones in the galaxy, you’re asking Tech (and his brothers by proxy) to join you in visiting the idyllic planet. 

You carefully carve out a little portion of your PTO and submit the request as the very first step in the planning process, and while you await approval you and Tech will continue to work together as normal. You still have to behave professionally in the meantime. 

Well, as professionally as possible when Tech decides he can now confess he has a backlog of haikus for you, enough so you could have one waiting for you in your locker every day until he’s cleared to return to fieldwork in a few weeks, in theory. 

“Poetry every Primeday, honeysuckles today, and now you’re offering daily haikus? Maybe I will be asking you out on a date if you continue to spoil me like that.” you warn him, chuckling. Of course now you get the feeling Tech will make sure the weeks leading up to your time-off would consist of honeysuckle and haiku to ensure that you would. 

And those were going to become some of your best weeks working as a researcher and analyst for the GAR, whether you got that time off or not, because it would be spent making precious memories with Tech. 

That was what mattered most.

First time I've ever participated in one of these events, and I don't think I did too badly, considering I completely restarted this at one point! (Apologies for how long this ended up being, too, haha.) I hope you liked it, Tech-a! 🩷

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[dollsonmain]

Ugh the racetrack really is both the biggest and worst employer in town. Majority of job listings come from them, and they're one of the only places in town that pay the federal minimum wage instead of an improved for cost-of-living wage.

Most places pay almost double what the racetrack does per hour, including places like McDonald's and Popeye's.

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The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to outside weather conditions which, at times, will be inclement. The employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts. This noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

It's no wonder the racetrack seems to always be needing a lot of workers.

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[quinloki]

Not really a question because we all know the answer but, finical domination was MADE for Nami. That said how would Sanji/Doffy/Boa feel about it? (Either giving or receiving)💚

Financial domination... huh.

I should've known something like this was a thing ^_^

Hmm... I apologize this might be a bit short, but let's see how it goes. The most coin-sideration I give money is a loose budget to make sure my income out paces my rent, and... that's about it. ^^;

Note: Reading up on this, I will say that as a practice in reality land it can be pretty dangerous. Financial independence is, objectively speaking, one of the best ways to protect yourself. But! I think with the proper safeties in place it would be okay/plausible to pull off. Just be sure you're actually in a trusting relationship and not effectively getting fleeced.

Alright, safety and sanity aside, let's get into this -

Boa Hancock:

Luffy/you - FUCK yes // Anyone else - No. I mean, let's be fair, if it made you or Luffy happy, Boa would jump in with both feet without thinking it through. Fortunately for her, Luffy is a genuinely good dude. Nami might be trying to convince him to siphon some of those funds into the coffers of the crew, but if Luffy's gonna plunder treasure, he's going to do it like a pirate. Hopefully in your case, the same can be said =D

Note these ratings don't change whether Boa's giving or receiving - she's not putting in the effort for anyone else and not trusting anyone else in that way. For better or worse. The biggest thing to realize with this is that there's no real kink involved for Boa. She's just driven to please the person she's fallen in love with, regardless of her own feelings. Moving that tendency aside, I think she'd be more of a Sure on this. She's the leader of her people, not their accountant, so might not even really know much about it aside from reviewing paperwork from someone else.

Doflamingo:

Sure - you want to let Doffy control your finances? Fufufu, who is he to deny his favorite little puppet? Especially if they want to hand over control like that?

Let's be fair though, chances are your finances are partial pennies compared to Doffy's wealth. He was going to be in control of you financially the moment you agreed to be in a relationship with him whether you were open to the idea or not. There is no flip side to this either - you control his finances? Oh my dear, I think not. He's not going to be the one getting strung along.

Sanji:

Being dominated - FUCK Yes Dominating - FUCK Yes - Let's be fair, Sanji's here to please you in anyway that he can, and he's actually Really Good at bookkeeping. He probably has a better formal education than most of the rest of the crew, and I bet he actually did a lot of bookkeeping for Baratie's even as a kid.

Sanji's not too terribly concerned about money aside from having the capacity to buy enough food to keep the crew fed. Also Nami takes care of finances for the crew, so he doesn't give it much thought - and is Perfectly Happy To Ask Nami for funds when he needs them. All his enthusiasm comes from that service mind of his, and wanting to provide you with the experience you want.

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#3 Ineffective Cash Flow Management

Tracking your small business’s cash inflows and outflows can be challenging. Particularly if it starts to have an impact on your finances, such as by causing misaligned sales goals, huge loans, and other high expenditures

However, professional bookkeepers make sure that your cash flow is consistently tracked and that the priority is on profitability which boosts cash flow. The greatest solution for poor cash flow management is to outsource the skills of a bookkeeper. It is best to steer clear of recurring financial problems once a positive cash flow has been established!

The Bookkeepers R Us’ financial experts offer fresh ways to maintain your company’s financial stability and make sure your small business has enough ability to cover expenses like operations, renovations, and payroll.

#4 Overlapping Personal and Business Accounts

Combining two accounts might lead to significant losses and financial problems. So this is considered one of the major errors that small business owners make.

Combining personal and business financial accounts has consequences. Where there will be an instance where you may spend your personal funds on business expenses and vice versa.

Generally speaking, being in this kind of financial condition can limit your ability to expand your business to its best potential. Because you will fail to keep proper financial records and be unable to calculate your company’s profit margins with accuracy.

Consider opening a separate business bank account to prevent issues! Employ reputable LA bookkeepers to keep track of your company’s assets and offer you the best financial advice at every turn.

and updated accounting for all daily transactions, which will help you maintain organized financial reports.

#5 Ineffective Utilization of Accounting Software

Selecting the wrong accounting software could result in unwise business choices!

Although technology has made bookkeeping simpler, not all small business owners have the time or the expertise to use accounting software.

Even small businesses must use accounting software, such as various Inventory Management Systems, to operate at their peak efficiency. Why? Because it makes it simple to track spending, manage taxes, create balance sheets, and execute basic invoicing and billing.

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Sole Proprietorship or Private Limited? 

Deciding between a sole proprietorship or private limited company can be a daunting task for entrepreneurs. Discover the differences between Sole Proprietorship and Private Limited by watching this video.

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You Should Hire A Virtual Assistant & Here’s Why

To Hire a Virtual Assistant is a suitable solution for your business if you are tired of spending hours in front of the computer without free time for yourself, your friends, or your family. You might be wondering if hiring a Virtual Assistant is worth it.

We’ve all heard about how a Virtual Assistant can help your business succeed. But how? Here’s a list of ten reasons you must hire a Virtual Assistant (VA) to help reach your goals.

What is a Virtual Assistant?

A Virtual Assistant provides remote services to different brands and businesses. Additionally, Virtual Assistant offers numerous benefits in the business, such as:

Grasping the most potential talent that your business needs

Less supervision

Reduces the workload

Keeps business owners away from entrepreneurial burnout

Despite these benefits, there’s a big decision to make regarding outsourcing. And since business owners always aim for success, they will undoubtedly take risks. This is due to the reason that VA leverages the business’s utmost potential.

Virtual Assistants can help everyone needing assistance, such as:

Business owners

Coaches

Teachers

Real Estate professionals

Doctors

Brands

Influencers

Embracing a Virtual Assistant means delegating remotely and with some training, especially on the client’s preferences. Thus, business owners can enjoy a work-life balance and focus on the essential tasks alone.

There are millions of Virtual Assistants ready to assist clients today. They are primarily in administration, sales, marketing, finance, customer service, human resource, IT, creatives, and many others. Virtual Assistants can work hourly or with fixed-rate jobs starting at $5/hour or $500 monthly.

Virtual Assistants Today that can Help Clients

Most of these Virtual Assistants are skilled and trained. These are some of the fields Virtual Assistants today can help clients with:

Executive Virtual Assistance

Social Media Management and Marketing

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Real Estate Virtual Assistance

ClickFunnels

Email Marketing

Shopify

Project Management

Copywriting, Editing, Proofreading

Online Bookkeeping

Video Editing

Web Design

Facebook Ads Marketing

eBay, Facebook Marketplace, Etsy, and Poshmark Virtual Assistance

Graphic Design

Amazon

Podcast Management and Marketing

Online Teaching

Brand Marketing and Advertising

Online Accounting

Full Stack Development

App Development

Business and Product Development

Xero, Wave, FreshBooks, and ZipBooks

Quickbooks, MYOB, Zoho, and AKAUNTING

Digital Marketing

ChatBot Marketing

Customer Service, Sales, and Support

Human Resource Management

Coding Designs and Procedures (Architecture and Engineering)

Online School Management

Top Three Reasons Why you Need a Virtual Assistant

1. Reduce Costs

Onboarding a new employee means additional expenses. Thus, when business owners hire a Virtual Assistant, it saves costs for training, benefits, and other fees. Considering a VA is an independent worker. Business owners can spend on something other than leave credits and benefits like a regular employee receives.

2. Saves time

Most of the VAs have experience in their expertise. This means that you can skip training. They know what to do and have the knowledge and skills to impact your business growth. And since VAs are remote workers, they know how to manage their time and tasks well. On top of that, a Virtual Assistant can multitask while ensuring quality outputs.

3. Proper tasks delegation

When you outsource, you are delegating tasks effectively. Why is that so? As your business is continuously growing, tasks are also increasing. In that case, you need to leverage a Virtual Assistant’s abilities in coping with duties. Similarly, your office employees can focus on their tasks, and you, as the owner, will focus on and prioritize core duties.

Where to Find an Effective Virtual Assistant?

Besides the services a VA can do for your business, a VA’s help will empower your business strategy. Now, are you ready to embrace a Virtual Assistant in your business?

But, before that, you need to be aware of where you can spot an excellent Virtual Assistant. And here are the top three best places to find a VA.

Initially, you can find a VA on any social media platform like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Linked In, and Pinterest.

Another one is Virtual Assistant Companies like Real Estate VA Agencies.

And last is the place where competitive VAs dwells, the freelancing websites.

Which is the right place to find a great VA? According to a DDIY study, 33% of 500 established companies worldwide outsource using freelancing websites. In short, this implies that freelancing websites are a great place to spot, especially for newbies. This is because the freelancing website displays portfolios showcasing the VA’s expertise and experience. Therefore, by looking at their portfolios, you can illustrate how a VA provides value to your business.

Now, are you excited to hire a VA? You can sign up with Surge now! Because this site aims to provide excellent VAs and ensure the VA’s capabilities through in-house training and apprenticeship programs, you’ll experience a BIG difference in your business!

How to Hire Virtual Assistants

The process is easy.

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– Fast verification

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What Are The Most Common Bookkeeping Mistakes Done By Start-ups?

Bookkeeping can be simple if you kick off with the right foot. Being an entrepreneur of a start-up, you encounter several challenges daily. The blog explains where your business often gets deviated when doing with the books.

Having your start-up is exciting and daunting as well. You want it to happen for several valid reasons and there will be hundreds of tasks to sort out daily. While rushing through various activities, bookkeeping often gets lesser priority and goes at the bottom of your to-do list. Probably, you will find the first mistake during the moment of keeping financial records.

Accurate accounting records are crucial to any company's sustainability. It allows a business to fulfill its financial obligations, manage cash flow and plan its investment goals. Bookkeeping mistakes can be grievous to any business, so if you are a startup business, it is significant that you lay the foundations of your business's bookkeeping right. Here are ten common bookkeeping mistakes that can help you maintain the financial records of your startup business error-free:

1. Not Maintaining Financial Records at All

A common mistake that could gravely cost your newly started business is not maintaining any financial records. As the owner of a new startup company, you must ensure proper financial resource management. You must ensure that the accounts are taken care of from the day you lay the foundation of your business. Leaving receipts, small or big, lying without recording them can be problematic. Even the tiniest receipt can come in handy when you are filing for tax. Bookkeeping gives you control if it is updated daily with the company’s financial transactions.

2. Not Hiring a Professional Bookkeeping Expert

You are an entrepreneur, and there are several other tasks related to management that you need to oversee. You will lose track of receipts, important deductions, and much more. Moreover, without any accounting skills, you will only make things worse. Professional bookkeeping experts have a comprehensive insight into matters organization’s financial health. From keeping an eye on your unpaid invoices to recording your daily cash flow and from managing compliances to audits, accounting experts can be a boon to your company. Without the help of a professional adept in general accounting and bookkeeping, you will fall behind drastically.

3. Not Keeping Receipts of Small Purchases

Startup owners have often seen spending on small expenditures but not maintaining any track of the receipts. Disregarding small receipts can amount to bigger expenditures when you have no evidence of how these expenses came by. Spending on stationery, water, snacks, fuel, etc., may be negligible to you, but it is significant to show them in the books. You may miss on preparing a proper budget and assessing the cash flow without these small receipts. Any business must maintain receipts for all types of expenditures, even if they are less than $75.

4. Improper Classification of Employees

The rise of independent professionals providing services has made it difficult for employers to classify them as permanent staff and independent workers. The problem arises when the time comes to file taxes as there are different rules for permanent and independent workers. Misclassifying employees as independent contractors is one of the biggest bookkeeping mistakes a business can make. The US bookkeeping and IRS (Internal Revenue System) will penalize you for this mistake when there is an audit in your company.

5. Paying Company Expenses from Personal Account and Vice Versa

Every startup owner must create a distinct line between personal and business expenses. Paying company bills from a personal account can negatively impact your finances, whereas using the company account to make expenditures calls for tax penalties. It remains disguised compensation and is subject to payroll taxes. It finally pulls down the investment and growth of your business. Open a business account and keep your personal and business expenses separate. This will ensure the good health of company books.

6. Not Reviewing the Accounts Regularly

One of the most overlooked small business bookkeeping mistakes is the owner’s failure to review the book of accounts at regular intervals. Understandably, the new business has less financial load, however bookkeeping experts suggest that owners track the entries every day or every week. Ignoring the financial books completely will prove costlier to the business in the long term.

7. Not Being Tech Savvy/Using Old Software

Stacking physical receipts and invoices to misplace them later will land your business in trouble. Audits and compliances require documents and verification. We are lucky to be living in a modern world where technology is at our disposal. All the documents, invoices, receipts, etc., should be scanned and uploaded into the system. Create file backups to ensure data is available and accessible at all times, even if a technical failure arises. You must use good software to keep your books. Good software ensures high-quality bookkeeping services. Using redundant software doesn't have the latest updates on compliances, taxes, mandatory deductions, etc., and causes problems for your business. Modern and feature-rich software ensures that the errors in bookkeeping are reduced to a minimum. Investing in good software is essential even for a small startup that is trying to save money.

8. Overcategorization or Miscategorization

The bookkeeping and accounting services USA has fairly standard categories for different types of expenses. However, new businesses often tend to make entries under the wrong heads or create too many categories for various expenses. You must stick to the general guidelines of bookkeeping when it comes to categorizing expenditure heads.

9. No Filing System for Purchase Invoices

New startups make blunders in maintaining a proper filing system for purchase invoices which upsets the accounting books of their company. Here is what you should do:

Maintain two separate purchase files – one for paid invoices and a different one for unpaid invoices

Enter the date and method of payment made towards the invoice.

The unpaid invoice should be moved to paid file when you clear the dues

The files should be maintained in alphabetical order by the name of the supplier

10. Not Using Online Modes for Payments

Small businesses make the mistake of performing cash transactions that don't generate a record. They do physical entries in books to mention the details. Hence, they forget about a cash transaction they performed and fail to enter it in the books. It further causes disbalance in their cash register and affects the accounting books. You can pay through online modes such as an online transfer, a cheque, debit, or credit card. It ensures that a transaction is created in the bank statement carrying the payment details. Also, this must include the person’s name, details of their payment, the amount, date, and reasons for the payment.

New startup entrepreneurs will be amazed at how helpful it would be to follow these suggestions and avoid these bookkeeping mistakes in their business. Consider this list as your ideal way to get perfect and accurate bookkeeping for your amazing start-up.

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What is Cloud ERP Accounting software?

Choosing the Accounting software that goes well with your accounting system is important and it is becoming as a need for most of the business to maintain their bookkeeping, record management, expense tracking expenses, etc

What is Cloud Accounting? 

Cloud Accounting is the process of accessing and managing an accounts system through the internet or web. Accounting professionals can manage or access their accounts details with their desktop or any devices through internet access. Also because of the online-based system, they can access the records from anywhere around the world and on any device that has an internet connection using a browser. Most of the professionals are using and suggesting the ERP Cloud accounting, because it helps them to manage their account details like invoices, reports, etc., and access their work like payment and receiving, generating invoices, etc., from their convenient place

What is Cloud Accounting Software?

Cloud accounting software allows users to perform or access their financial data from anywhere through the cloud without any company hardware. Cloud Accounting Software saves time, which means you don’t need to have a manual track for your work or wasting time on chasing or posting invoices. It is completely user friendly and also easy to use.

Cloud vs. On-Premise

Primary Benefits

There are plenty of advantages and benefits while using accounting software. We’ll see Some of the advantages below:-

Saves time with Automation:-

A big chunk of work of an accountant like creating an invoice, tracking transactions, payment reminders and much more can be automated and that's what accounting software can do best.

Improved Security:-

Rather than keeping your data on your office shelf, it’ll be a lot safer when it is covered besides the layer of high-end encryption algorithms.

Real-time Data:-

It will generate important financial reports instantly, You can keep track of all the metrics you want like Inventories, Expenses, Bills, etc., Real-Time data managing and accessing is one of the top advantages of Accounting software

Easy Collaboration:-

  By using a simple login method everyone in your team can access financial data and accounting in real-time from anywhere. It’ll save more time when compared to the method of using one access at a time.

Improved Accuracy:-

Accounting Software will always make sure that the financial and accounting records are organized in a proper, accurate manner at every single time. In that case, there is no way a typical accounting error can occur.

Flexible and Easy Accessing:- 

Because of fully computerized and online-based software, you can access accounting from anywhere and whenever you want using whichever devices you have like Tablet, PC, Laptop, or Mobile Phone, etc.,

Key Features

Most of the accounting ERP software comes up with advanced features in the market. Choosing the correct features that will fit your industry is vital. Here are some of the basic common features of Accounting ERP software;

Manage Bills & Expenses

Control supplier invoices and get a clear view of your future bills to pay.

Invoicing

Create accurate and professional-looking invoices, manage recurring billings, and easily track payments.   

Bank Synchronization 

Sync your bank statements with your bank automatically, or import files with the Bank synchronization feature.

Account Payable and Receivable

Organize and manage the invoices that have been paid or not and your payments to companies, partners, etc.,

Best Cloud Accounting Software

ODOO Accounting Software

Odoo is the best ERP accounting software in Chennai that meets the industry's requirements in this modern age. It offers the best and quality service for major needs of the company’s like CRM, eCommerce, accounting, inventory, point of sale, project management, etc., More than 5 Million users grow their business using ODOO across the globe. Some of their Accounting software features are mentioned below

Expense Management

It allows one to keep an eye on the targeted budget and avoid over-expenditure. Using this feature it is easy to follow the expense records of the team. They can also add receipts as an attachment through any device into the expense management system. It’ll also avoid losing receipts.

Invoices

Manage your bills invoices and get paid faster using this feature. Keep track of bank account  and status of invoices and you can easily create an invoice with the quote you send to your clients and send the professional-looking invoice in just a click

Draft invoice prepositions:- 

  Invoice generated automatically by software depends on the sales order, delivery order, or timesheets.

Accounts Receivable 

Advanced payment terms:- 

   It support various payment methods like payment for one or many invoices, Cash discounts etc.,

On the fly reconciliation:-

While creating an invoice, Odoo software reminds outstanding payments automatically

Account Payables 

 Control Bills:-

Odoo accounting software automatically compares the vendor bills and the paid receipt to make sure you've paid the correct amount. This ensures that technical account problems are avoided completely.

Bill Digitalization:-

Once we upload the pdf or images of files in vendor bills, Accounting software can automate the creation using an artificial intelligence

Performance Reports

Business Intelligence report:-

A number of standard reports are available - Profit & Loss, cash flow statements, reports, executive summary and aged payable/receivables, etc.

Customizable Dashboard

Users can create or customize their own dashboard by assembling the required reports. And be able to get dynamic calculations on required fields.

And More Standard features of ODOO software are listed below:-

Analytic accounting

Subscription

Assets and Revenue Management

Connect.  like, Tax cloud integration, Google spreadsheet, Flexible import, and export, etc.,

Legal statement of profit or loss, General ledger, etc.,

Advanced access rights

Quickbooks Online

Quick books online is a Cloud Accounting Software available online for small businesses like nonprofitable business, eg:- charities, religious, artistic, or education, etc also for whole-sale dealers, and much more. It is available for both Android and IOS software. Some of the common features are listed below

Invoices:-

Create a custom professional invoice, sales receipts, and estimates that can able to send in minutes.

Online Banking

With banking integration feature of Quickbooks online software. Your statement and transaction details will get updated automatically

Reports

Can able to see how our business is performing using Accounts reports or also via customizable dashboards.

Time Tracking

Using a time tracking feature, users are able to clock the billing time of vendors or employees so that it can be added to invoices and report files

And other standard features like.,

Sales track management

Expense Tracking

Job Costing and profit tracking.

Last Word:-

Cloud accounting is the smartest way to carry your Accounting activities to the next level and to avoid technical errors completely Best way to solve the traditional, as well as modern problem, is to keep learning and stick with the modern technologies and solutions. It will not only solve the problems, but it will also raise your business standards and deliveries to the next level. But there are plenty of Software options available in the market choosing the right one that fits your business is important.

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However, some corporations are using the 32-hour week as a profit to draw extra high quality candidates, and workers are making their preferences recognized by flocking to employers who supply these shorter work hours. In a nationwide four-day workweek trial run that occurred between June and December 2022, over 90% of taking part firms plan to continue the work association until further discover. Of 61 companies, 18 have determined to adopt the 32-hour workweek permanently. Efficient execution of those processes is crucial for organizations to streamline operations, enhance productivity, and make knowledgeable selections. Back Office Services are useful resources that present experience and support in these areas, enabling organizations to give consideration to their core competencies. Magellan Solutions presents a comprehensive suite of on-line back-office work to accommodate all businesses’ back-office assist. In our increasingly online world knowledge is the lifeblood of business and OKIN Process has the skills and experience essential to place it to give you the outcomes you want. Proactive accounts payable management is the method in which to attain financial effectivity. By diligently addressing errors upfront, you prevent a domino effect of wasted time, sources, and potential money flow disruptions.

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Net 45 Terms: Definition, How They Work & Business Implications

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Simplifying Bookkeeping and Tax Accounting Services in Hong Kong

In today's fast-paced business world, managing finances effectively is essential for every organization, regardless of its size. From startups to established enterprises, maintaining accurate bookkeeping and complying with tax regulations are crucial tasks. However, navigating the complexities of financial management, especially in a bustling metropolis like Hong Kong, can be overwhelming.

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Understanding Bookkeeping and Tax Accounting

Bookkeeping involves the systematic recording, organizing, and tracking of financial transactions within a business. It provides a clear overview of a company's financial health, including income, expenses, assets, and liabilities. Accurate bookkeeping is vital for making informed business decisions, assessing profitability, and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.

Tax accounting, on the other hand, encompasses the preparation, filing, and optimization of tax returns. It involves analyzing financial data to minimize tax liabilities while maximizing deductions and credits within the framework of local tax laws. Proper tax accounting ensures that businesses fulfill their tax obligations promptly and efficiently, avoiding penalties and audits.

Why Choose Mielo Group?

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With Mielo Group by your side, you can simplify your financial processes, minimize risks, and maximize opportunities for growth. Whether you need assistance with bookkeeping, tax planning, or financial consulting, we're here to help you succeed. Contact us today to learn more about our services and discover how we can support your business goals.