So, I have to get a Super Important Payroll Certification sometime in the next year if I want to keep my job. After a day like today, I’m rather meh on the whole thing anyway.
But anyway, this certification is awarded by passing a Super Hard Test That is Very Very Difficult. (Jesus Christ, American Payroll Association, it’s payroll, not neurosurgery!). To pass this test, you must study like you’re preparing for a career in rocket science. To study, you should join a study group, which costs a small ton of money (fortunately, my employer is footing the bill for this).
So I joined the study group, which was slated to start on this coming Monday.
Except there’s a low enrollment (two of which were me and Broomhilda). “Can you attend the class if it was on Saturdays?”
Sure!
“Can you attend the class if we had it online?”
Errm, Okay?
“Never mind, the others can’t do Saturdays. We’ll have it on two weeknights a week, about 15 feet from your cubicle!”
“Great! See you Monday!”
“Oh wait, others can’t make it. We’re canceling the class. Here’s your (employer’s) money back. Good luck with your test!”
So, here are my choices:
1) Try and study for the test by myself and/or with the help of two of my certified coworkers, who have very generously offered to spend time quizzing me, etc.
2) Put off the test until the Spring, when Year End is going on and I spend all of my time a) working b) considering a possible career move to fast food. The study group – if it even happens! – would take place during that time during Year End known as “the time when I don’t have time to even consider food service as a career choice”*
3) Take a class at a local community college, which would be entirely LaineyD sponsored and cost $800.
(yes! Practically a mortgage payment for a class for a certification that I don’t even effing want anyway!)
* = Who the fuck thinks these things up? The entire boondoggle must be from someone who never really does payroll… Sure! Payroll professionals have nothing better to do two nights a week in January (!) than sit around and think about payroll theory.
Arrrrrgh.