So no questions, although I do want to get to them this week – I swear! Maybe tonight after a beer or 2.

The reason I’m pissy is because of my work. One of the owners of our smallish company does the payroll himself. They went to direct deposit within the past year or so. Since they did that, we’ve been paid late about 4 times or so. And these aren’t “oh I got deathly ill the day before payday and couldn’t make it to the computer.” They were “I have too much sh*# to do, and can’t be bothered to make sure I get payroll done by 3pm the day before payday, so you all are getting screwed over.” I could understand the sick excuse. I cannot stand (or understand) the too-busy excuse. Hire it out to a company that does payroll if it’s so time consuming. The thing is, most of us are “salaried” anyway, and so our paychecks are the exact same from payperiod to payperiod. It’s not that complicated.

I think part of the problem (who am I kidding? probably the entire problem) is that the bosses don’t live paycheck to paycheck like some of the rest of us (I know I should be budgeting better, but that’s an entirely different discussion and does not make this an ok thing to do). And so they don’t understand why it’s important. Also, it’s rather intimidating to go yell at your boss when they are screwing up, considering they control your raises and other information. So no one really talks to him about it. But you wouldn’t think we would need to. You would think that respect for your employees would be enough to make sure you get this done on time.

Bah. I’m probably not making much sense because I’m so pissed about this. Sure, it’s only 1 day, but that’s one more day without groceries. One more day without gas for the car. Grr. And thank God I don’t have bill withdrawals that happen right on the 10th (which is when payday is supposed to be). Because that would be a huge mess. Other people in my office aren’t so lucky.

So, in conclusion: if you are in charge of making sure an office full of people get paid on time (or even if it’s only one person) GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER AND DO IT ALREADY. Ahem. Sorry for the yelling. I’ll go back to my corner now.