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Sometimes I can’t believe stuff that will boggle the mind.

My old work.  The place that I stopped working at on December 14th.  Has not yet given me my final pay cheque.  Now, by law, it is stated that I should receive my final pay cheque within 7 days of my last day, or on what would be scheduled as my next normal pay date, whichever is later.

My last day of work being December 14th, means 7 days later would have been December 25th (assuming they meant 7 business days, and not just 7 days… otherwise it would be December 21st) and my next scheduled pay date would have been December 27th.  Even assuming they did not mail it out December 27th or 28th seeing as how the office wasn’t 100% open, and that they were closed on the 31st, if they mailed it on the 2nd, I should have received it by the 4th at least.

On the evening of January 7th I e-mailed HR because where the hell is it?

I received a reply of “Oh, as you know the office was closed, and I was away.  I have your pay cheque here, please let me know what you want me to do with it.”

Oh the things I wrote in my first draft of the e-mail.  Stating much of the above, pointing out the flaws in her reply of an e-mail… I decided to take the high, and very non-evasive approach, and just said “Please mail my cheque.”  To which I was told it was mailed out that day (Tuesday)

I decided to not point out the legal standings.  I decided to not say “No, you were only closed for one day after the pay date.”  I decided to not say “So, because you were away, has everyone had their pay cheques with-held until your return?”

But man… I really REALLY wanted to.

I just can’t believe, that almost a month after I’d left that dumbass company, I’m still being forced with their stupidity.  I can’t wait for when I need to get my tax forms.  How long I’ll have to wait for that.

Grumbley is me.

Mike's Toronto Suspension event is January 12-13th. I said I would help out because I am capable of helping out.

Toronto Unicyclists weekend party to celebrate their 20th anniversary is January 12-13th. I said I would go because I've been a member for over 3 years now.

Blake & Ashley's extremely late housewarming/New Years party is January 12th. I said I would go because I need to kick some bum in Guitar Hero/Rock Band.

You jerks!
I still havent even written my new years post yet either!

In other news, my 500gb external hard drive showed up yesterday. I formatted it out of the format it was on (yay me!) so I could host larger files, moved all my .ISO files over and now my secondary hard drive is all but empty!

Ah… 500gb of porn

In more other news, tonight is dinner in town, dishes after dinner, then a trek up to Bradford for the weekend. Looks like I will become well acquainted with the Newmarket Public Library seeing as how I will be spending large chunks of time there. I have books and a charged mp3 player to keep me company!

So the job that I quitteded in December. My first day working there was November 13, 2006. My last day working there was December 14, 2007. Exactly 1 year, 1 month and 1 day. I didn’t plan it that way, but it certainly worked out well when my customers were asking me how long I had been there.

Anyways, I keep thinking back to the summer when I first started getting the feeling like I was going to be fired. Especially when I had this dumbass meeting that made no sense to me that was nothing more than attacking me for everything I could have possibly done wrong, whether it was my fault or not.

And all the points aside, I realize they were right the majority of the time with what they were bringing up, but I really did, and still, felt that they go about it by attacking you to make it somehow justified that they treat us like crap. And something like this, I should not have been able to take off the printer.

So here’s what it says (all in caps, because my (former) supervisor always has caps lock on)

Hello (HR manager), I have so much to say about the below, I don’t have time to write it, can we please talk about it tomorrow @ 5:00PM. If she thinks she makes very few errors tan I don’t see any reason to keep her, we must let her go right away (if she doesn’t see her mistakes or even thinks she doesn’t have too many mistakes, than there is no room to improve). I am very upset with her, I didn’t think she was this blind.

Yea, that isn’t something that really should be printed out for the entire company to see. Especially in the fact that I saw it, then grabbed it off the printer a good 10 if not 15 minutes later, after debating whether or not I should take it.

That’s some of the issues I had. Too many confidential papers being printed by HR that were never bloody well picked up from the printer. How many typing tests have I been privy to just because I grabbed the print out? How many people have I internally laughed at because I type faster with one hand when compared to their test they took to try and get a job?

I think the strangest thing was that this meeting I received was exactly 9 months after I had started at the company. To the day. And it was supposed to be my 3 month review. And… honestly, all the points they were bringing up with me? They should have brought up with me at the 3 month mark. Telling me at 9 months that I’d been making these errors all this time? My obvious reply being “Why didn’t anyone tell me earlier?” Apparently I was. But how am I supposed to know that passive-aggressive comments regarding “so many errors” (read: 2) would be an official verbal warning?

I’m gone from there now, but there’s still so much to vent about and dwell on!