I have a side job doing some technical writing for a colleague’s grant project. It’s not a ton of money, but it has certainly been welcome in a year when the consulting business (my regular job) has been going less than stellar.
Normally, I keep track of my hours and send an email, once every couple of weeks, to the department administrator who handles the research group’s finances. In fact, when I submit my hours, it’s in response to a reminder email that the admin sends, high priority, to each of the six or so people who get paid the same way that I do. So tell me -
How damn hard is it to remember to submit someone’s hours to payroll when that is part of your job?
I have no idea what happened around the beginning of July, but ever since then, I’m lucky if I get paid every third pay period. There’s always some excuse… “sorry, I just forgot… I tried to submit hours from home but the secure connection to payroll didn’t work… payroll switched the submission deadline and I missed it…” For some unspecified reason, he missed getting my hours in for the last pay period, so when I sent in my hours this past Monday I said I hoped there would be no more problems. Today I got this email:
YOU’RE jinxed?!? So, IF there isn’t another screw-up, I might finally get paid in mid-November for hours I worked in early October. Super. :mad:
I do eventually get the money owed me, but at this point it’s the principle of the thing. Plus I was really hoping to use the extra cash to take care of some large-ticket, (currently) non-emergency maintenance on my car before winter settles in, and my work sched combined with the holidays is going to make it hard to schedule after mid-November.
Damn. Just … damn.