June 20, 2008

I got completely confused today. Today was supposed to be the last pay period for me for this school year. I was expecting my last paycheck, my escrow check and my Career Ladder check to all be in my bank account when I logged onto my bank this morning. Not so. The only thing there was my last paycheck.

Ok, so I wasn't all that surprised that they have not gotten around to cutting the Career Ladder checks. This is always the last thing they get around to paying out. Although it makes me a little nervous as the district's fiscal year ends on June 30.

So, the minute I know there is someone in the business office at the district, I call. Of course the person who would have an answer about the escrow checks is on vacation and they have not gotten notification on the Career Ladder checks from HR yet. They transfer me up to HR and thankfully, the one person that works in that office that I know will be honest with me answers the phone.

They have just this week gotten the paperwork with everyone's signature validating the payees for Career Ladder. We were notified three weeks ago if our plans were accepted for payment or not. So, hopefully, Career Ladder checks will come next week.

In the mean time I'm still not feeling very good about the fact that my escrow check is not in the bank. This is a HUGE check. We could survive the summer without it, but it would be really hard. Besides the fact that that is MY money that they took out of my paychecks all year.

Our mail did not come until almost 4:00 p.m. today. Guess what was in it? My escrow check. Now why in the world did they not direct deposit that check? Honestly, it's not a big deal because that money was going to be moved to the savings account anyway. But, had they told us that these would be mailed and not deposited it sure would have saved me a lot of worry today. I am still waiting on my Career Ladder check though.