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daTwo parts good, plus a batch of likely over-privileged whining.
After we failed to go to the gym last night, we went back after dinner, and there was parking space. A very chipper employee has resolved the problem with their head office failing to apply our credit-card update to both dan's and my accounts; she was apologetic and even a bit funny about it.
Today's weather is great. I spent a chunk of my lunchtime outside in the sun. There is so much melting snow, and I was amused at people in sneakers trying to avoid the bigger puddles. This is a good day to have an openable window, too.
The bad:
My office window lost its screen, some time over the winter. I expect it will be a while before it gets replaced. I hope this isn't a problem.
The electrical room next to my office was making a deep throbbing sound this afternoon. It stopped after 30 minutes, but it was really annoying and if it wasn't a one-time thing, I expect it'll never get fixed, since it's so sporadic.
The candy machine in my building has been empty for a month. I called facilities about it, and they said it's empty because they had mice. Ew.
I tried finding out how many vacation days I have this year. I vaguely thought I had two weeks paid vacation, possibly pro-rated, because that's what I had for my contract in CS. Actually, new regular employees collect three weeks, on top of federal holidays and the week between Christmas and New Years. I realize this is generous, so you're welcome to dismiss all the rest of this as whining.
This three weeks kicks in very slowly- I can only use 9 days of vacation in the time between when I started, and July 1 2008, 19 months later! It's not clear whether or not it will be easy to take unpaid time; it seems to be totally supervisor-dependent. She has already used her discretion to advancing me two vacation days this April, so I'm hopeful, otherwise I need to be very selective about what I can do for the next 16 months.
So, I'm slightly frustrated at not understanding how that worked until now; whether I didn't hear what the HR people said, or they didn't explain it with enough practical detail.
I don't even know, since I've had non-traditional jobs all of my life to date; is it common to give no vacation for the first year? How about this wonky "Vacation Credit Year" system which means I technically have 7 months of no vacation followed by 12 months of 7/12 regular vacation?
I don't like where this discovery puts my head. All of this is complaining about a package that's overall quite generous, and here I am doing this complaining at work in a private office. But... 19 months is a long time.
After we failed to go to the gym last night, we went back after dinner, and there was parking space. A very chipper employee has resolved the problem with their head office failing to apply our credit-card update to both dan's and my accounts; she was apologetic and even a bit funny about it.
Today's weather is great. I spent a chunk of my lunchtime outside in the sun. There is so much melting snow, and I was amused at people in sneakers trying to avoid the bigger puddles. This is a good day to have an openable window, too.
The bad:
My office window lost its screen, some time over the winter. I expect it will be a while before it gets replaced. I hope this isn't a problem.
The electrical room next to my office was making a deep throbbing sound this afternoon. It stopped after 30 minutes, but it was really annoying and if it wasn't a one-time thing, I expect it'll never get fixed, since it's so sporadic.
The candy machine in my building has been empty for a month. I called facilities about it, and they said it's empty because they had mice. Ew.
I tried finding out how many vacation days I have this year. I vaguely thought I had two weeks paid vacation, possibly pro-rated, because that's what I had for my contract in CS. Actually, new regular employees collect three weeks, on top of federal holidays and the week between Christmas and New Years. I realize this is generous, so you're welcome to dismiss all the rest of this as whining.
This three weeks kicks in very slowly- I can only use 9 days of vacation in the time between when I started, and July 1 2008, 19 months later! It's not clear whether or not it will be easy to take unpaid time; it seems to be totally supervisor-dependent. She has already used her discretion to advancing me two vacation days this April, so I'm hopeful, otherwise I need to be very selective about what I can do for the next 16 months.
So, I'm slightly frustrated at not understanding how that worked until now; whether I didn't hear what the HR people said, or they didn't explain it with enough practical detail.
I don't even know, since I've had non-traditional jobs all of my life to date; is it common to give no vacation for the first year? How about this wonky "Vacation Credit Year" system which means I technically have 7 months of no vacation followed by 12 months of 7/12 regular vacation?
I don't like where this discovery puts my head. All of this is complaining about a package that's overall quite generous, and here I am doing this complaining at work in a private office. But... 19 months is a long time.
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Date: Wednesday, 14 March 2007 12:26 am (UTC)Yup. And yup- here's what the HR had to say when I asked to confirm my understanding:
Our vacation year runs from July 1 to June 30 each year. When a new
employee starts, they accrue 1.25 days per month which is their accrual to
use the following vacation year. Example: if you started March 1/07 you
will accrue 1.25 days per month until June 30/07. Therefore you would have
accrued five vacation days (4x1.25). These days would be available for you
to use between July 1/ 07 until June 30/08. Starting July 1/07 until June
30/08 you will have accrued 15 days to be used between July1/08 until June
30/09.
I'm curious whether it's just "one of those things" that gets worked around by sympathetic bosses- "don't tell HR but we'll advance you a week off the books" or something. It has to be one of the oddest things that's come up for me as an employee..
Sounds to me like the U needs unions! (Tell Dan I said that. ;-)
I don't remember if I ever wrote my own take on the unionization drive. Oh that's right, I did. :)