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.<\/p>\n
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).<\/p>\n
So I joined the study group, which was slated to start on this coming Monday.<\/p>\n
Except there’s a low enrollment (two of which were me and Broomhilda). “Can you attend the class if it was on Saturdays?”<\/p>\n
Sure!<\/p>\n
“Can you attend the class if we had it online?”<\/p>\n
Errm, Okay?<\/p>\n
“Never mind, the others can’t do Saturdays. We’ll have it on two weeknights a week, about 15 feet from your cubicle!”<\/p>\n
“Great! See you Monday!”<\/p>\n
“Oh wait, others can’t make it. We’re canceling the class. Here’s your (employer’s) money back. Good luck with your test!”<\/p>\n
So, here are my choices:<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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”*<\/p>\n
3) Take a class at a local community college, which would be entirely LaineyD sponsored and cost $800.<\/p>\n
(yes! Practically a mortgage payment for a class for a certification that I don’t even effing want anyway!)<\/p>\n
* = 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.<\/p>\n
Arrrrrgh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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