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Between my bank, the newspaper, and the Fayette County glocal government, I've just been screwed out of $104.
It all comes down to some ridiculous "occupational privilege tax" for Fayette County which, it seems, basically means that you have to pay a yearly tax just to be lucky enough to have a job in Fayette County. Now, last year, this tax was $4 or $5, and it was automatically deducted from my paychecks at the newspaper and at Penn State. Completely negligible. This year it's $52. Thank you, Fayette County.
The tax was supposed to be automatically deducted from my last Herald-Standard paycheck, but apparently the newspaper's payroll office fucked up and didn't take it out of some employees' checks. I was one of those lucky few. BUT! This wouldn't've been that big a deal because they sent me a memo noting that they would deduct it from my next paycheck. OK, whatever.
Thursday, however, I got a call from the payroll office saying that they've placed a request to have the $52 returned from my bank account. Don't ask me WHY they are doing this instead of just taking it out of my next check--they couldn't give me a coherent answer, but it seemed to have something to do with all kinds of "internal errors" in their main office and blah blah fucking blah. But anyway, the money would be returned NEXT week on or around the date of my next paycheck so that their figures would balance out and...well, I told them I didn't give a shit what they did, as long as they got it straightened out and didn't bug me with it anymore. Their problem, not mine. I budgeted my cash accordingly so that the bank would be able to return the money next week and I wouldn't be caught with suddenly less money than I thought I had.
Last night, I checked my bank account just to see how much money I had in it so I could figure out what I could spend at Tekkoshocon today. And what do I find? A new entry from Thursday for "administrative return from Calkins/UNI" to the some of $104. That is literally TWICE what they should've taken back. Plus, they took it back a week early.
When I looked last night, it was too late to call the newspaper, or the bank, but today I just called National City and asked them what the hell was going on. It's definitely not their fault--the request for a return of funds to the tune of $104 was made by the newspaper on Thursday, so I have to take it up with them on Monday.
Fucking assholes. They'd better be ready to face some serious wrath here. Because of this shit, I can't go to the anime con. I cannot now afford the cover let alone the cash to actually pick up anything (even a goddamned poster), because then I wouldn't have any money to eat on or pay for gas to get back home tomorrow. I have to stick to my budget so I can pay off the last of my monthly bills this week, so....
I'm telling you. Heads are going to roll at the Herald-Standard. This is total fucking bullshit. And I wish I could say this is the first time that the newspaper did something stupid like this, but it's not: ever since I started getting direct deposit of my paychecks, they periodically jack up something with the desposits.
It all comes down to some ridiculous "occupational privilege tax" for Fayette County which, it seems, basically means that you have to pay a yearly tax just to be lucky enough to have a job in Fayette County. Now, last year, this tax was $4 or $5, and it was automatically deducted from my paychecks at the newspaper and at Penn State. Completely negligible. This year it's $52. Thank you, Fayette County.
The tax was supposed to be automatically deducted from my last Herald-Standard paycheck, but apparently the newspaper's payroll office fucked up and didn't take it out of some employees' checks. I was one of those lucky few. BUT! This wouldn't've been that big a deal because they sent me a memo noting that they would deduct it from my next paycheck. OK, whatever.
Thursday, however, I got a call from the payroll office saying that they've placed a request to have the $52 returned from my bank account. Don't ask me WHY they are doing this instead of just taking it out of my next check--they couldn't give me a coherent answer, but it seemed to have something to do with all kinds of "internal errors" in their main office and blah blah fucking blah. But anyway, the money would be returned NEXT week on or around the date of my next paycheck so that their figures would balance out and...well, I told them I didn't give a shit what they did, as long as they got it straightened out and didn't bug me with it anymore. Their problem, not mine. I budgeted my cash accordingly so that the bank would be able to return the money next week and I wouldn't be caught with suddenly less money than I thought I had.
Last night, I checked my bank account just to see how much money I had in it so I could figure out what I could spend at Tekkoshocon today. And what do I find? A new entry from Thursday for "administrative return from Calkins/UNI" to the some of $104. That is literally TWICE what they should've taken back. Plus, they took it back a week early.
When I looked last night, it was too late to call the newspaper, or the bank, but today I just called National City and asked them what the hell was going on. It's definitely not their fault--the request for a return of funds to the tune of $104 was made by the newspaper on Thursday, so I have to take it up with them on Monday.
Fucking assholes. They'd better be ready to face some serious wrath here. Because of this shit, I can't go to the anime con. I cannot now afford the cover let alone the cash to actually pick up anything (even a goddamned poster), because then I wouldn't have any money to eat on or pay for gas to get back home tomorrow. I have to stick to my budget so I can pay off the last of my monthly bills this week, so....
I'm telling you. Heads are going to roll at the Herald-Standard. This is total fucking bullshit. And I wish I could say this is the first time that the newspaper did something stupid like this, but it's not: ever since I started getting direct deposit of my paychecks, they periodically jack up something with the desposits.
