Sunday, July 24, 2005

Contract work is yucky

Sometimes I really hate that J is a temp (meaning on a contract, through an employment agency).

He gets paid weekly, after he sends in his time sheet for the week that is approved by his line manager. Because of J getting a promotion and having a new line manager there's big confusion as to who should be approving his time sheet.

It still hasn't been rectified so for the moment it has to be signed by hand and faxed in (usually it's just authorised and then emailed off to the relevant people).

For the second week in a row now he hasn't gotten paid! Last week he didn't get his pay for about 5 days after the time he should have. Once again, he didn't get paid when he was meant to.

We obviously depend on his pay.. that pay was to be for our car payment, which comes out on Tuesday.

They haven't paid us, and we don't have the money for that car payment till J gets paid!

I hate unreliable pay situations! At least with my pay it's a constant thing. I get paid once a fortnight, on a Wednesday night. It's always the same and I can keep track of what's coming and going!

Lets just hope they let us defer the car payment by a few days..