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My boss Marilyn came back to work Thursday. We had a brief team meeting yesterday, during which she thanked me and Jon for doing so much extra while she was out. I said "You're welcome" and added that Jon probably deserved a lot of the credit, since I'd been out for a week; he said no, he'd only done his own work. I think she will think we were both being polite; who did what is recorded in a number of places, and I'm not concerned about not getting credit.
Julie in HR got back to me about the 401K enrollment. She said there was no record of me signing up, and suggested I do it again. I spoke to Marilyn about this; she spoke to Wendy, and they suggested I get in touch with the main company HR person in Massachusetts, so I have done so. There are two issues here. One is that we have 401K matching: if my end-of-January signup gets processed as early April, that's two months of matching money I'm not getting. So I asked if she could make it retroactive. The other is that Julie may not be able to find a record of my enrollment, but not only do I have the confirmation number, I can log into the system and see that it believes it should be taking out 7% of my salary, but has so far taken nothing. Which isn't just evidence--my earlier email to Julie might count there as well. It also has me a bit worried about possible confusion and problems if I do sign up again, and the system notices that it has two employees at the same company, with the same name and social security number. Does it flag this as fraud? Does it go ahead and process them both, with the possibility that at some point it decides to actually start handling the first one properly? (Best case there is I have to tell it to stop taking the money out for one, and hope it doesn't then cancel both. Worse, if it tries to match both, someone might get upset or think I'm trying to cheat the company. Or does it just refuse to enroll me on the grounds that it already has that person in its system? It may be that this is the right answer, but I'd like some reassurance here (even if they won't make it retroactive).
It is most thoroughly spring here: the trees are just starting to bloom (the drooping cherries are bright pink, but the apple tree nearest us is just starting). We still have crocuses and scads of daffodils, but we also have a few dandelions and our first violet, tucked in next to a tree stump (which was a perfectly good tree before the last rain-and-windstorm, *sigh*).
At some point, I may do a book post, instead of just updating the list I started at the beginning of the year. Averaged over the year to date, I'm reading a bit over one book a week.
I went to the gym after work yesterday. It wasn't very crowded, probably because it was a very nice day out. The workout went well, and I am pleased. ( numbers cut to avoid boredom )
Julie in HR got back to me about the 401K enrollment. She said there was no record of me signing up, and suggested I do it again. I spoke to Marilyn about this; she spoke to Wendy, and they suggested I get in touch with the main company HR person in Massachusetts, so I have done so. There are two issues here. One is that we have 401K matching: if my end-of-January signup gets processed as early April, that's two months of matching money I'm not getting. So I asked if she could make it retroactive. The other is that Julie may not be able to find a record of my enrollment, but not only do I have the confirmation number, I can log into the system and see that it believes it should be taking out 7% of my salary, but has so far taken nothing. Which isn't just evidence--my earlier email to Julie might count there as well. It also has me a bit worried about possible confusion and problems if I do sign up again, and the system notices that it has two employees at the same company, with the same name and social security number. Does it flag this as fraud? Does it go ahead and process them both, with the possibility that at some point it decides to actually start handling the first one properly? (Best case there is I have to tell it to stop taking the money out for one, and hope it doesn't then cancel both. Worse, if it tries to match both, someone might get upset or think I'm trying to cheat the company. Or does it just refuse to enroll me on the grounds that it already has that person in its system? It may be that this is the right answer, but I'd like some reassurance here (even if they won't make it retroactive).
It is most thoroughly spring here: the trees are just starting to bloom (the drooping cherries are bright pink, but the apple tree nearest us is just starting). We still have crocuses and scads of daffodils, but we also have a few dandelions and our first violet, tucked in next to a tree stump (which was a perfectly good tree before the last rain-and-windstorm, *sigh*).
At some point, I may do a book post, instead of just updating the list I started at the beginning of the year. Averaged over the year to date, I'm reading a bit over one book a week.
I went to the gym after work yesterday. It wasn't very crowded, probably because it was a very nice day out. The workout went well, and I am pleased. ( numbers cut to avoid boredom )