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Today in the "why me?" department...
Jan. 8th, 2007 11:20 amToday is payday at Andrew Undershaft Industries. Today is the last payday on the 2006 semi-monthly payroll system used by former child company Cute Little Bombs for Peace, Inc. After today and pursuant to the 1 February 2006 acquisition of CLBFP by AUI, we are switching to a biweekly payroll system. However, today's paycheck is supposed to be for the last pay period in 2006, viz: 16 to 31 December.
I checked my checking account first thing this morning (I have direct deposit) so as to balance my checkbook against online credit card payments (among other things, Netflix is stalled because I've no available plastic moneys) and discovered that my payroll deposit was a couple hundred dollars short. Why? I wonder. So I go claim my paycheck stubs from an HR/payroll person whom I've never met before (she tells me "You're never there" and pulls a stack of 6 old paycheck stubs from a drawer and mumbles something about having intended to mail them). I bust the new one and all the old ones open to discovered that, indeed, I have been paid an amount equal to my salary divided by 26 rather than by 24.
I'm assuming at this point that it's an error that affects all members of legacy company CLBFP: clearly and legally, despite the fact that it is now calendar year 2007, this paycheck MUST be for the last pay period of 2006, which was a half-month, not two weeks. So I call various payroll-type peoples, finally ending up with (craftily-disguised) Donn O'Eddell, Veep for Accounting. It takes a while to make my inquiry clear, since this is the first he's heard of any discrepancy. Sure enough, he checks out the payroll records and confirms that I've been paid on the new schedule rather than the old. He also checks all other employee pay records from CLBFP and finds that I AM THE ONLY PERSON TO HAVE THIS PROBLEM.
Now I ask you: Bad credit rating or no, how is this much bad karma even possible?
I checked my checking account first thing this morning (I have direct deposit) so as to balance my checkbook against online credit card payments (among other things, Netflix is stalled because I've no available plastic moneys) and discovered that my payroll deposit was a couple hundred dollars short. Why? I wonder. So I go claim my paycheck stubs from an HR/payroll person whom I've never met before (she tells me "You're never there" and pulls a stack of 6 old paycheck stubs from a drawer and mumbles something about having intended to mail them). I bust the new one and all the old ones open to discovered that, indeed, I have been paid an amount equal to my salary divided by 26 rather than by 24.
I'm assuming at this point that it's an error that affects all members of legacy company CLBFP: clearly and legally, despite the fact that it is now calendar year 2007, this paycheck MUST be for the last pay period of 2006, which was a half-month, not two weeks. So I call various payroll-type peoples, finally ending up with (craftily-disguised) Donn O'Eddell, Veep for Accounting. It takes a while to make my inquiry clear, since this is the first he's heard of any discrepancy. Sure enough, he checks out the payroll records and confirms that I've been paid on the new schedule rather than the old. He also checks all other employee pay records from CLBFP and finds that I AM THE ONLY PERSON TO HAVE THIS PROBLEM.
Now I ask you: Bad credit rating or no, how is this much bad karma even possible?
