Why the bank can suck a nut
Aside from the fact that the bank was a miserable place to work, and my boss was a HUGE bitch who felt that her job was to do nothing at all ever, and it was a dead end, the people that run the branch and quite possibly the entire north Jersey area are incompentant.
Prime example of this:
Today is pay day. I was supposed to get paid for my last week of work today. I call to check my account since I get direct deposit, no money! So, I check the payroll website thinking maybe it needed to be mailed or something... No paystub! Ok. Don't panic.
I call the bank and speak to the branch manager. And she goes.. um. I don't know what to tell you. Here's the payroll departments number and your hours. Call there. I'm busy.
So, I call payroll. And the payroll manager is out of the office for the next WEEK. This needs to be taken care of now, so I call the general payroll line. And the woman I talk to tells me I didn't work any of those hours, they don't have a record of it. I say Bull crap! I have a breakdown right here! And she goes.. oh. This'll need to be researched. We'll call you back. *click*
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Two hours pass and the HEAD of teh payroll department calls me back. Apparently she's the only intelligent and competent one that works there. She asks me how many hours of time off I've taken since January. I took around 72 hours because I was very sick. She goes, well, that's the problem. You over drew your time off bank. Oh! How is that possible? I was under the impression that I got 120 hours a year?
Well, I do. But not all at once like my immediate supervisor AND the branch manager told me I did. You earn 10 hours per month of work. I had only accrued 30 hours of time off when I left, meaning I overdrew by 42 hours. Oweing the company 42 hours. Therefore I'm not getting paid.
I was pretty, and understandably pissed that I had been misled to believe something when I very specifically asked... multiple times... about how time off worked. The head of payroll sympathised with me, but really, what can she do? So she said she was going to call up and give both managers an earful because it is rIdiculous that they've both been working there for 20+ YEARS and they can't comprehend how something that is fairly simple works. Yes. You get 120 hours, but you have to earn them. So everymonth you get 10 hours to use. If you use more than you're earned and you leave us before you earn it, it'll come out of your pay.
Not rocket science.
She also said if I really wanted to, I could attempt to pursue the matter with the NJ department of wages and labor and they might demand I be compensated on the grounds of being misled.
I'm toying with it, but doubt I would pursue it because it would be time consuming and I don't have concrete evidence. It would be my word only. And as much as that's worth to people who know me, it won't be much to a government agency.
So that's more 2 weeks without getting paid. My first paycheck at the new job comes on the 25th. (I've only been here since Monday). The last time I got paid was March 28th. So this really sucks.
At my new job, people are totally compentent. This makes me happy.
Prime example of this:
Today is pay day. I was supposed to get paid for my last week of work today. I call to check my account since I get direct deposit, no money! So, I check the payroll website thinking maybe it needed to be mailed or something... No paystub! Ok. Don't panic.
I call the bank and speak to the branch manager. And she goes.. um. I don't know what to tell you. Here's the payroll departments number and your hours. Call there. I'm busy.
So, I call payroll. And the payroll manager is out of the office for the next WEEK. This needs to be taken care of now, so I call the general payroll line. And the woman I talk to tells me I didn't work any of those hours, they don't have a record of it. I say Bull crap! I have a breakdown right here! And she goes.. oh. This'll need to be researched. We'll call you back. *click*
O_o
Two hours pass and the HEAD of teh payroll department calls me back. Apparently she's the only intelligent and competent one that works there. She asks me how many hours of time off I've taken since January. I took around 72 hours because I was very sick. She goes, well, that's the problem. You over drew your time off bank. Oh! How is that possible? I was under the impression that I got 120 hours a year?
Well, I do. But not all at once like my immediate supervisor AND the branch manager told me I did. You earn 10 hours per month of work. I had only accrued 30 hours of time off when I left, meaning I overdrew by 42 hours. Oweing the company 42 hours. Therefore I'm not getting paid.
I was pretty, and understandably pissed that I had been misled to believe something when I very specifically asked... multiple times... about how time off worked. The head of payroll sympathised with me, but really, what can she do? So she said she was going to call up and give both managers an earful because it is rIdiculous that they've both been working there for 20+ YEARS and they can't comprehend how something that is fairly simple works. Yes. You get 120 hours, but you have to earn them. So everymonth you get 10 hours to use. If you use more than you're earned and you leave us before you earn it, it'll come out of your pay.
Not rocket science.
She also said if I really wanted to, I could attempt to pursue the matter with the NJ department of wages and labor and they might demand I be compensated on the grounds of being misled.
I'm toying with it, but doubt I would pursue it because it would be time consuming and I don't have concrete evidence. It would be my word only. And as much as that's worth to people who know me, it won't be much to a government agency.
So that's more 2 weeks without getting paid. My first paycheck at the new job comes on the 25th. (I've only been here since Monday). The last time I got paid was March 28th. So this really sucks.
At my new job, people are totally compentent. This makes me happy.