2011 is starting off kind of nice...
Finally some good news on the job front.
While I'm STILL working as a long-term temp, I just found out that since I've been with the temp agency for more than a year, I actually have a week's worth of vacation pay available through them.
This Christmas/New Year I went ahead and took the last week of December off, the way I used to back in the salad days. I wanted to take that extra time to hang out with my family and my sisters and not have to rush back to work like last year (with The Great Burglary thrown in as icing on the crapcake that was 2009.)
Anyway, I just figured I'd bite the bullet and take a week without pay.
Since I didn't submit my weekly timesheet to the temp agency (I submit through Blue Cross's timecard system), since I had no hours to report, the payroll woman at the temp agency began to wonder if I knew I had vacation pay I could use, so the woman who placed me in my position gave me a call. YAY!
So, I'm getting a check tomorrow for a week of vacation pay for last week, AND I found out that my pay rate will be going up by about 40 cents an hour! 40 cents may not sound like much, but every little bit helps, especially since I'm still more than a dollar per hour below what I used to make!
Plus, since my anniversary date with the temp agency is actually in June, then come this summer I will have another week of vacation pay. Our family is probably going to go camping this summer (my dad is getting a new camper!) and that week of paid time off will come in handy!
I'm actually in a bit of a good mood now... ;0)