Been a long time...
Okay, so, the one thing... well, two things going wrong in my life right now are these. First off, Wachovia decided to try and dick me out of 42 hours worth of unscheduled work I did for them by not paying me for it. Which sucks, because it's my money -I earned it- and I damn well need it. Wachovia pays its employees the same way it dicks with their customers: they nickel-and-dime you to death. What they do is take the first seven or eight days of your 15-day pay period, and use that to guesstimate what you'll be making during your last seven or eight days of the pay period. Which means that if you work 35 hours the first week, but work 45 hours the next week, Wachovia only pays you for 70 hours (35+35). Ideally, they're supposed to add the missing hours from your previous paycheck to the next one, but in my case, they never did.
So, there was a period wherein I was working at the bank and we were short two people, so I volunteered to extend my 30 hour work week to a 40 hour work week, because I needed the money and they wouldn't let me have the position. During the two-odd months those two positions went unfilled, I put in a lot of unscheduled time-- some of which I was paid for, but a lot of which I wasn't. Me being me, I kept detailed notes about how much I worked compared to how much Wachovia actually paid me for, and lo and behold I'm out about $300, after taxes. I'm pretty sure they do this to all their employees, on the chance that those who trust the accounting system think they're being paid acurrately but aren't, and Wachovia keeps the excess because nobody ever calls them on it. So if Wachovia doesn't pay me, they may have a class action lawsuit on their hands; I have a lot of hungry lawyer friends...
The other happy event in my life is the auto insurance claim hanging over my head: when we moved in, I was trying to get the super-huge U-Haul truck around a curve, and accidentally scraped up the bumper and took out the front headlight out on someone's illegally parked car. I offered to pay it out of pocket, in order to avoid insurance issues, but their estimate is in the $800 range. Thanks to Wachovia's not paying me, that's a price I can't afford to pay until the end of October, when I start getting paychecks from the new job. So I figure, I'm paying Progressive all this money for my super-duper full-coverage car insurance, so I might as well use it, right? Wrong. They hand delivered me a first-class postage letter two days after I file my claim saying they might not pay me because the U-Haul I was in wasn't covered under my insurace policy. Funny; I thought I was paying you oversized oodles of money I could better spend elsewhere for precisely that kind of coverage, Progressive! Thanks for not being there in a pinch!
Who knows, they could decide to come through for me. But it's not a good sign when the first you hear back from your insurance people after reporting an accident is "hey, we might decide not to cover you." Fuckers.
So, there was a period wherein I was working at the bank and we were short two people, so I volunteered to extend my 30 hour work week to a 40 hour work week, because I needed the money and they wouldn't let me have the position. During the two-odd months those two positions went unfilled, I put in a lot of unscheduled time-- some of which I was paid for, but a lot of which I wasn't. Me being me, I kept detailed notes about how much I worked compared to how much Wachovia actually paid me for, and lo and behold I'm out about $300, after taxes. I'm pretty sure they do this to all their employees, on the chance that those who trust the accounting system think they're being paid acurrately but aren't, and Wachovia keeps the excess because nobody ever calls them on it. So if Wachovia doesn't pay me, they may have a class action lawsuit on their hands; I have a lot of hungry lawyer friends...
The other happy event in my life is the auto insurance claim hanging over my head: when we moved in, I was trying to get the super-huge U-Haul truck around a curve, and accidentally scraped up the bumper and took out the front headlight out on someone's illegally parked car. I offered to pay it out of pocket, in order to avoid insurance issues, but their estimate is in the $800 range. Thanks to Wachovia's not paying me, that's a price I can't afford to pay until the end of October, when I start getting paychecks from the new job. So I figure, I'm paying Progressive all this money for my super-duper full-coverage car insurance, so I might as well use it, right? Wrong. They hand delivered me a first-class postage letter two days after I file my claim saying they might not pay me because the U-Haul I was in wasn't covered under my insurace policy. Funny; I thought I was paying you oversized oodles of money I could better spend elsewhere for precisely that kind of coverage, Progressive! Thanks for not being there in a pinch!
Who knows, they could decide to come through for me. But it's not a good sign when the first you hear back from your insurance people after reporting an accident is "hey, we might decide not to cover you." Fuckers.