When your employer says you're getting a bonus, do you say...

[Dina Lerret]

On 7/8/06, drcarole71 <drcarole71 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Have you thought about looking for a higher-paying job?  If the job
> market in your area is any good, you might consider it, especially if
> you are good at what you do.
>
> Carole, a big fan of job satisfaction

Other than some irksome habits of the family, the job is good, the
folk are nice, and the pay reasonable considering I do 'general
office'--other than payroll and some HR processing, I had no
experience for 'all purpose', especially in real estate, when I was
hired last year.  I don't have a supervisor 'breathing down my back'
and I can squeeze in time to fool around on the internet as long as I
get my job done on time... Heck, I mostly work by myself in the office
and have the keys to the place.  After eight and a half years of being
on the 'corporate hierarchy' of departments as a cog being grinded
down, having the Supervisor from Hell (tm), and arriving home
depressed and *loathing* coming to work, the lack of being able to
cash my paychecks in a timely manner is a small trade off because,
unlike some people, I'm a stingy beyotch. ;-)

I just came back from Super Target.  I bought six 64oz bottles of
apple juice, twenty single serve containers of Kellogg cereal, ten
bags of 9+oz M&Ms, and a dozen piece pack of sushi... all for $1.33,
after $34 in coupons. :-D  The cashier was like 'there's gotta be a
rule against this' and I'm like 'it's not against the rules if
Target's coupon says you can use one coupon per item and there's no
limit specified'.  Find the loophole and roll with it, baby.  Anyway,
most of the coupons expire today and were tied into the Fourth of
July.  Still, the M&Ms were $.50 each and I had $1 coupons for them
and the cereal was $.77 and dollar coupons on those too, so I
accumulated credit to make the sushi, which was 10% off, and apple
juice, which were $.50 each after coupons, almost free.  None were
taxed.

Oh, and after my boss's sister and his business partner complain and
complain some more (going on for months) about the old multi-function
printer's feeder not working and it being slow in copying and faxing.
I buy a new $280 (several businesses were charging a similar amount)
All-In-One HP inkjet printer for $160 and change, including $10.50 in
taxes--Staples price-matched for a discount of $110 since Office Depot
was doing $100 off until today and I had a $20 Staples coupon.  Dude,
my boss emails me from Europe, 'I want a laser AIO', and I'm like
'...'.  Not happening from my end of things considering B&W laser AIOs
run from $300-500 and color laser AIOs are $700-1,000, not including
used models.  I told my boss this, and if he didn't want to keep that
new inkjet for the office, *I'll* take it because it's a fairly sweet
deal and the only printer I have at home is an Epson from 1996 which
works about 15% of the time. {g}


On 7/8/06, Catlady (Rita Prince Winston) <catlady at wicca.net> wrote:

> Altho' I hope there's enough money in the account to cover your
> paycheck when payday comes. (Tim told me once of when his father
> worked at a job whose employer NEVER put enough money into the payroll
> account at the bank to cover all the paychecks. When the checks were
> handed out, the employees would grab them and RACE to the bank. The
> first several guys could cash their checks without problems but the
> last several would be told 'Insufficient funds'.)

Heh, there's *definitely* money but not in the accounts I need them to
be and I can't easily transfer them around without an accountant going
AWOL or a shareholder going WTF. {g}  Summer months are especially
difficult in collecting money from some tenants because their business
slows.

Not the most *ideal* situation but I take care of myself and I manage
funds.  On average, I try to keep 2-3 months of 'basic survival money'
in my account, so I'm not necessarily living 'paycheck to paycheck'.

Dina