FFM
called the union today.
found out two things.
one:
i have been eligible for benefits since february.
they didn't send me any paperwork though because they somehow didn't have my address on file.
don't they kinda check for and acquire that around your hire date?
so now they have to mail me a piece of paper with my address on it so i can sign it and mail it back to them so they can get all my shit together.
damn. before they used to be all procative about it.
sending me everything that i didn't even need at the time.
now i guess they're passively hoping that people won't look into it.
i guess it worked on me.
took me almost 4 months to do anything about it.
two:
i also called about why i was bumped down two pay scales.
come to find out the cut off point is two years.
before that, you keep journeyman, after that, you get screwed.
so when i got rehired, i told them that i'd been gone for "about two years".
little did i know how important my specificity should have been.
doing a little digging, i found out that i "left" lake city fred meyer in november 2002, and was rehired in october 2004 just prior to my birthday.
that shit is less than two years!
even if only by a couple of weeks!
so maybe this thing will come to fruition and i'll get back to journeyman.
it's still in the works. i'm going to check with time and attendance tomorrow to get the exact dates of fire and hire.
i asked the union guy if that's too knit-picky and he said no.
so that's cool.
i wonder if i'd get backpay.
if i did, with my week's work, before tax i'd rake in about 2 grand.
not too bad for a week's work.
i hope it happens.
i'd be slightly less bitter toward one of the jobs i hate.
but! just today fred meyer upgraded their registers so that you no longer have to fill out your check. all you have to do is sign in and the machine does the rest.
other than for the novelty i don't really advise that you try it.
it seems to take just as long as if you'd do it by hand.
but it is kinda cool how it takes the check face-down, franks it on the back, sucks it back into the register, flips it around, prints, and spits the check back out face up.
crazy shit.
but let's please keep this modern miracle for the use of tards and gerrys* only.
thank you.
*geriatrics
found out two things.
one:
i have been eligible for benefits since february.
they didn't send me any paperwork though because they somehow didn't have my address on file.
don't they kinda check for and acquire that around your hire date?
so now they have to mail me a piece of paper with my address on it so i can sign it and mail it back to them so they can get all my shit together.
damn. before they used to be all procative about it.
sending me everything that i didn't even need at the time.
now i guess they're passively hoping that people won't look into it.
i guess it worked on me.
took me almost 4 months to do anything about it.
two:
i also called about why i was bumped down two pay scales.
come to find out the cut off point is two years.
before that, you keep journeyman, after that, you get screwed.
so when i got rehired, i told them that i'd been gone for "about two years".
little did i know how important my specificity should have been.
doing a little digging, i found out that i "left" lake city fred meyer in november 2002, and was rehired in october 2004 just prior to my birthday.
that shit is less than two years!
even if only by a couple of weeks!
so maybe this thing will come to fruition and i'll get back to journeyman.
it's still in the works. i'm going to check with time and attendance tomorrow to get the exact dates of fire and hire.
i asked the union guy if that's too knit-picky and he said no.
so that's cool.
i wonder if i'd get backpay.
if i did, with my week's work, before tax i'd rake in about 2 grand.
not too bad for a week's work.
i hope it happens.
i'd be slightly less bitter toward one of the jobs i hate.
but! just today fred meyer upgraded their registers so that you no longer have to fill out your check. all you have to do is sign in and the machine does the rest.
other than for the novelty i don't really advise that you try it.
it seems to take just as long as if you'd do it by hand.
but it is kinda cool how it takes the check face-down, franks it on the back, sucks it back into the register, flips it around, prints, and spits the check back out face up.
crazy shit.
but let's please keep this modern miracle for the use of tards and gerrys* only.
thank you.
*geriatrics
1 Comments:
tard.
i like your asterisk comment.
also, that would be cool about fred's if you got all that mon back and stuff. and yeah, get on the ucsb thing. those profs sound like they're right up your alley!
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