The Happy Camper

[arisbe]

My devoted readers will recall that I came downtown Thursday, two weeks ago today, to pick up my paycheck, and found there was none for me, as management had not made out my timesheet during my vacation. I did receive it last week with the assurance that my timesheet had in fact been filled out for the last pay period the day before I returned, and for the proper eighty hours. And so it had been -- except for the tiny box on the upper right where the total hours is transcribed from the box where it was first written. And in that box it was written correctly; but in the little box that matters the number forty had been copied from a weekly total. And of course the department head signed it without inspecting it. And today I was the lucky recipient of half a paycheck, and must wait another week for the rest.

I am, as the saying goes, not entirely gruntled.

Besides suffering a delayed reaction to my flu shot.

Or maybe the damned thing just didn't work.

In another half an hour, home to sleep.

Comments

[rengal.livejournal.com]

Very uncool. I had an employer once who shorted me $200. He accused me of trying to steal in front of everyone and acted like a major jerk. Then he called and the secretary did indeed say that he failed to cut me the check. HE didn't say he was sorry or wrong, but he did write me a check then and there. It was a pretty stressful situation for this 17 yr old kid, though...