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…
Month: January 2009
Politics as Usual…
Did I tell you all that I was going to go be co-Governor of Illinois? Stefania, my coworker and former boss, and I were going to go run Illinois after Governor Blagoveich was ousted. Our theory was that we couldn’t do worse than him, right? We had big plans! We were going to work one…
More music…
So, around Thanksgiving, the Muzak channel changed from “Cool Songs that Elaine doesn’t Automatically Hate” to “Hits of the 50s and Eeeeearly 60s” and stayed that way until a week or two ago. Actually, I liked the old music channel because I hadn’t heard two of my favorite old songs “Let’s Hang On” by Frankie…
the chair affair…
(hee hee, that rhymed) Ugh, chair is at FedEx. Finally. When my only time out of the office during daylight is my lunch hour, sometimes I have to do things I wouldn’t normally do, such as struggle with a screwdriver in a light Cheesecake City rainstorm. Additionally, I wanted the damned office chair out of…
what the heck?
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”…
Grumble
1) The W-2s arrived from our payroll provider today. Complete with the 800 fucked up W-2s all mixed in. Great, so you sent me 4000 good W-2s and 800+ screwed up ones? Like THAT won’t be a major disaster. Ughhhh. The rep suggested I just send them all out, letting my people know that “they…
25 Things, a crosspost from Facebook
1) I blog at laineyd.com. (I know, Duhhh right?) 2) I just found a problem with around 900 of my employer’s W-2s for 2008. I hope my boss remembers this the next time I forget to do something minor. (I talk about W-2s a lot this time of year, it’s just a weird thing about…
More music…
Apparently I’m in an early ’90s mood. I’m going to go put on some black knit pants. (Apologies for the announcer at the beginning. This is REM’s acoustic performance of Half a World Away from Unplugged. It’s not their best song, but it is definitely their prettiest).
Listening to…
It was (probably) true 40 years ago, it was true in ’93 and it was true on Tuesday. Well, I can hope so anyway 🙂 I hope all is well with all of you.
Nothing new under the sun…
Here is the latest with me: 1) Hit another high today in terms of people visiting this site. Just in case any of you had it open and just kept hitting refresh in case I posted something fabulous and new, here is your reward. (Suckers) 2) Finished The Time Travelers Wife, a pretty good book….