Good News/Bad News aka Five Things Make a Post

[rolanni]

*SRM Publisher's Captain-Owner Steve Miller interviews Lawrence M. Schoen (klingonguy) here

*December's bill from Central Maine Power Company (arrived today) was $119 less than the normal budget payment

*Payroll forgot to cut my check this week

*They'll be doing a direct deposit which will show up on Friday instead of on Thursday, so no harm done, except, yanno, psychic

*Steve is on the road to the late great state of Maryland while I languish here in Maine, and Scrabble knows who to blame


G'night...

Comments

[malkingrey.livejournal.com]

Payroll forgot to cut my check this week

Oh, lord, university payroll screwups . . . I can still start twitching if I think about some of the ones I ran into back when I was a grad student, and that was mumblemumble decades ago.

Publishers are slow as a matter of fixed business practice; university departments are slow and screwed up because they're just too damned lackadaisical to care.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I remember some epic payroll messes when I worked for the University of Maryland, and every attempt to make them better only made them worse.

To be fair, I work at a small school and the payroll office is such that I can take a pleasant walk down a partially wooded path and personally talk to the actual person who keys in the hours. And they did Fix It immediately. The fact of there being something to fix -- yes, they still do key in the payroll by hand. No, I don't know why.

[srmpublisher.livejournal.com]

Hey, do let Scrabble know this is the fault of the hardworking class officers eleccted in the late 1960s who kept the faith when it came to keeping on with the class...

right. she may not get that.

g'night from I-90

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

She might get the whole Brown Catness of keeping on with the details.

How this would fit in with Inconveniencing Her -- maybe not so much.

G'morning -- drive safe...

E-mailed you garden pics

[kalimeg.livejournal.com]

because these are what Rebecca's garden should have looked like.

Re: E-mailed you garden pics

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Thanks, will look for them...