Sixteen measley hours

[judecorp]

Also, the financial situation is much happier now that I got my bonus at work. The sad thing is that I only got the half-bonus.

(Backstory: My work offers a $2000 bonus each year if you make 100% of productivity. Since I started this job after the start of the fiscal year, I was eligible for a half-bonus if I made productivity for the second half of the fiscal year. But see, I started only 2.5 WEEKS after the start of the fiscal year... and pretty much had a full caseload built up a month after that. So I thought that if I hustled I could catch up to my coworkers and get the full bonus. At first I thought it wasn't possible, but then the day I got married, rght when I was leaving work to head for City Hall, my supervisor pulled me aside to let me know that I was really close to catching up, and if I pulled about 24 hours/week (I'd been billing between 23 and 28 on average) until the end of the fiscal year I was going to get the BLING.)

We needed 1040 hours from July 1, 2004 to June 30, 2005. (20 hours/week for 52 weeks) I ended the fiscal year with 1024. Sixteen hours short! Less than one week of work!

I lost an unexpected week of work when my dad died.

Dang. Dang it all.

I mean, sure, I still got $1000 (before taxes, so I ended up with significantly less)... but that was one expensive week off.)

Comments

[sunshyne72.livejournal.com]

Bonuses kind of suck like that when they're roped into something else. When I started my employment at my current company, I was HIRED in March, but they couldn't start me until like April 2nd or 4th or something, so the following year when it came time for PDP Performance-Dividend-Payout they said I only get half instead of all because I started in APRIL, missing the cut off by a few days. I'm like, well I was HIRED IN MARCH!! :(

Oh well, extra money is always nice.

[carina-s.livejournal.com]

I was confused about this for a while, but I think it's because I took a stupid pill. Now I know your pain. $1000! Damn!