Someone got to my little plot of Internet by googling “employer did not send out w2 by 1/31”.
We were under no legal obligation to send out your W2 until yesterday, February 2. (Happy Groundhog Day, by the way). Most employers want them the hell out of their way long before the deadline (including me most years) but sometimes we have to send them out on the last day. Sorry. Oh, and in 2010 we have until 2/1 so hold tight, dude.
If you don’t have the W-2 by Valentine’s Day, call your employer. Have you moved (seventeen times)? Was your home address correct on your paychecks to begin with? (How do employees not notice that their ZIP code is listed as “0” on their paychecks??) If you know anyone who still works at the employer, ask if they’ve received their W-2. If they have, yours is a-coming, I promise.
(Do not even get me started on the lady who called me after receiving two W-2s from us this year… and neither form is right…and oh crap I just remembered I did not call her. crappity).
(So see? Even the ol’ Payroll Princess has a less than excellent moment).