The Cheesecake is Rich

So, guess whose employer had a huuuuge reduction in force (RIF) yesterday? Guess whose employer RIF’d the owner’s son? Guess whose employer still employs ME? Yeah, I know. Weird, huh? Anyway, it was ugly at work yesterday. All week, there have been closed doors all over the place and it’s made me want to jump [...]

Hmm. So it is the end of the first week of April and I’m not finished  with my $500 annual insurance deductible. Last year I polished it off by Valentine’s Day. Should I be glad that I haven’t had to visit doctors as often this year or annoyed that Blue Cross has gotten off scot [...]

My Worst Freaking Nightmare! So, I guess if it could happen to Nobu, the famous sushi restaurant partly owned by Robert DeNiro, it could happen to anyone. I would LOVE to talk to the payroll clerk there – were they paying server OT at 1.5 times server minimum ($2.13 times 1.5 = $3.20) instead of [...]

So, Gene is still in NJ (through Wednesday, so he can have face time with the Boss’s Boss), which I am bummed about but I also feel that timing is impeccable: The W-2s are at the office and I have to have them…oh, let’s say the hell out of my office… by Monday night. No [...]

So I cracked open the W-2s today and they are sorted who the hell knows how. I mean, not alphabetically, not by city or state or location number. Just some random who the fuck knows method. Apparently our payroll provider outsources the W-2 stuffing to the company that hires homeless people to hold “STORE CLOSING” [...]

Because payroll? Uuuuuugh. Worst. day. ever. Far worse than the day Gwen demoted me, even. I had a location manager absolutely lay into me. He was rude, downright abusive. I can guaran-fucking-tee that if I had spoken that way to the lowliest of his employees I would be on the street posthaste. The irony is [...]

So I have tried like three times to write a post this week about how things are going. Sometimes I’d be in the middle of a sentence, decide “Ugh, I can’t even put this into type-able words,” say eff it and close down the Firefox window. I probably have a few drafts but anyway. The [...]

So, last week was National Payroll Week. (Yes, really. Payroll has a whole week… I think that maybe makes me 5-7 times cooler than the Easter bunny). We were too busy (you know, doing payroll!) to celebrate then but I arrived at work yesterday to find 3 mylar balloons, a basket of chocolate goodies and [...]

I wish that I could meet Stephen Colbert. I would like to get a picture taken with him where I’m pointing at him with a crazed look on my face – a version of this one. I could totally be his New Atheist Friend. I wish that I had remembered to watch the opening games [...]

SO… We are outsourcing payroll again starting in October. The time between now and then is going to be chock full of stuff to do and it will be craaaazy but I am looking so forward to this change. It’ll really make my work like a lot easier and it will save me tons of [...]