Hello all... its Friday and I've been back to work for 2 full weeks now after being out of work for 4 weeks recuperating from gallbladder surgery. Most reasonable people would think that everything was back on track, but not here, not in the land of General Electric where no one cares if you have a dollar in your pocket or if you can pay your mortgage! Yeahhh for big business!
I worked a full week last week (4 days + 8 hours of holiday pay) so you can imagine my shock when my supervisor had no check for me today. After going back and forth to payroll and HR I found out that someone screwed up and forgot to list me as back to work so one division of GE thinks I'm still on medical leave so they mailed my paycheck to my house. Now how could I possibly be on medical leave if I was at work punching in and out for 4 days... good question, but no one seems to know! My paycheck was mailed from Texas, but they don't know what day it was mailed so I could get it Saturday or I could get it Monday, but GE will continue to over pay execs and not pay taxes so they don't care about my issues!
I'm also still waiting for 2-3 checks (depending on how they 'fixed' the issues they screwed up) from Aetna the insurance company that was supposed to be paying me while I was out after surgery. Funny that the money didn't start coming in until I was back to work... thanks Aetna and once again Yeahhh for big business! I'm actually on hold with Aetna as I'm typing this and I'm speaking with another customer service specialist that has NO clue what shes talking about!
So it looks like this weeks income (even though its not all here yet) is a check I got earlier in the week from Aetna that is paying me for February 11th-15th and my paycheck from work which is currently somewhere between here and Texas. The check from Aetna was for $326.28 and normally the check I get the 4th week of the month would go towards savings, but because I'm behind on some things I'm going to deposit it into my checking account. The check I will get (in the mail eventually) from work is going to be for $622.09 and that would be my first check for March. You may remember that I always put the first check of the month in my checking account to pay bills so that is where that will be going also.
Other money things going on this month include my wife working some extra hours each week and being able to give me $600 towards the mortgage. She gave me a check yesterday, but I already paid the mortgage bill. I could (and maybe should) put it in the mortgage account because its currently lower than I like. I like to have 1 months payment in there in case of an emergency, but last month was kind of an emergency with the checks from Aetna being so much lower than my normal pay and coming so late. So my plan is to put the check from my wife in my checking account also. Lastly I will be getting $300 from a friend because I paid for something for him. The $300 is on my Discover card so I will take the $300 that I'll get from him tomorrow (Saturday) and put it in my checking account with all the rest of this weeks money and hopefully pay off my Discover card. If its not paid off it will be close. So total for this week I will be depositing $1848.37 into my checking account, but my Discover bill is over $1000 right now and my checking account is still in the red! If I feel like once the bill is paid there is enough to justify some savings I will make a transfer and let you know next week, but if nothing else I will be making my $20 deposit into my vacation account as usual.
Now ladies and gentlemen that have stuck with me so far. I promise you that after this week I am back on track and March has 5 paychecks in it so there will be some saving going on... I promise!
So let me give you the week 9 wrap
up:
$38.26 to my 401K
$20 to my vacation fund
which makes the 2013
totals...
$210.98 in my 401K
$180 in the vacation fund
$20.05 in the piggy bank
If you're still reading this leave a comment and let me know what you think. Have you saved any money so far this year? We are 2 months in and I don't have much saved but I think it shows that with little effort you can put away a few bucks a week either for an emergency or for a future vacation!
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