Back before my work merged with another, we were on a bi-weekly pay schedule that gave the employees their checks every other Thursday. Pay checks were based on a 75 hour work week. Then the merge came and the headache of a pay schedule came with it. We changed to semi-monthly, with paychecks going on on the 15th and 30th of each month, each being based of 86.6667 hours. A semi-monthly pay schedule makes no sense to me. One week you’ll get paid on a Monday, and another it could be a Thursday, all depending on the month. Some people liked it, just because certain bills were due on the same day each month, and they knew then the date they would get paid and could schedule accordingly.
I’d much rather be paid on the same day each week or every other week. Which is kind of funny, considering now we are swapping back to bi-weekly. You would think that would be a decently easy change back, but it’s not proving to be. First comes the confusion. Confusion of going from 24 pay periods a year, to 26, but doing half the year each way. Going from 1 time-sheet a month to two, being in an entirely different format as well as different submission instructions as before. The first check we got after swapping back to bi-weekly was for 88 hours, and the next one will go back to 80 hours. All because they were originally going to start the week on a Friday, which made a whole lot of sense when we were first told that (sarcasm).
I’ve never gotten a Christmas bonus at work before, until this paycheck. I’ve never really been concerned about it, nor felt like I’m getting shorted, because a bonus is just that, a bonus, and something that shouldn’t be counted on or expected. So that’s one plus that we’re going to be getting now that we’ve been merged, and I must say that it is nice of the new management to extend that to us.
There must have been no disagreements in with the way I rated myself previously. I checked my paycheck this morning and saw that I now receive 36¢/hour more, which I suspect is the amount of increase for being in my department another year. While it doesn’t put me where I’d love to be, it does get me closer, and I’m happy for and appreciate any little increase I can get.
A little while ago I received a memo for my “annual performance review” here at work. Which is kind of funny because I’ve been here 7+ years, and this is the first time I’ve seen such an item. I consider myself lucky for that, because I don’t really like paperwork, and especially rating myself on various subjects.
A quick glance over it leaves me to believe that the most weight of it will be from my supervisor’s responses, although mine obviously will bear some weight in it.
The topics at hand are:
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