Just an update to let you know not much is happening here. It's back to work time for everyone, but I worked all six days around Christmas and New Years, since I only had 1/2 day of vacation left. It was a full day, but back in February when I took the morning off, my boss forgot to put it into the computer. The good news is that because our vacation is calculated based on monthly accrual (even though it's given for the year if that makes sense), I get an extra 1-1/2 days this year due to hitting the five year mark on September 1.
According to our Policy Manual, 6 months to 4 years you accrue .833 days per month. 5-9 years you accrue 1.25 days per month, etc. So I get .833 days per month for January through August, then 1.25 days per month September through December. That rounds down, roughly, to 11-1/2 days, plus my 1/2 day carried over, for a whopping 12 days of vacation this year! Ain't I lucky???? Plus we get two personal days, four floaters, and six sick days.
Another good note, my company finished the year with record sales of $1 billion, first time we've hit that amount. Everyone knows 2009 will be a lot less, so they are budgeting for it, but hopefully the record setting in 2008 will follow with nice bonuses in February.
Hopefully I'll find something to take a picture of soon, or a funny story to tell, or a cute email to share, or something to entertain everyone.
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1 year ago
Hey, this post was rather entertaining. :)
ReplyDeleteSounds like your company did well even with the economy the way it was, and with it being so slow you had to go looking for work to do some days.
(we don't get personal days or sick days at the mill...if i'm sick, i take a vacation day if i want to get paid for it) :\
Glad your company did so well last year. :)
ReplyDeleteThat vacation day calculation is wonderfully complicated. I'd need a new ribbon on my adding machine to figure out how many days you got coming.
ReplyDeleteIf you need more floaters...check out the east river.
I knew someone would make a comment about the floaters, lmao.
ReplyDeleteWow 12 days! Most I ever got was 10! Well now you got no excuse so you need to plan a trip to see everyone LOL...oh you said vacation days not extra money!
ReplyDeleteI worked for a company once that our department alone did 20 mil a month...Wow that was a lot of money in 1980.
I'm getting too predictable huh? :)
ReplyDeleteI was thinking today....since the cost of the materials needed to make the end product for sales is a lot more these days, the sales figure would most likely be record setting, or close to it. But when you take into consideration the cost of the raw materials needed (or feed ingredients, in my case) to make the end product, the final result may not be such a good year for your company as far as profit goes. (but you already knew that) We must have had a record setting sales figure for 2008, too, but I'm not privy to that info anymore so couldn't really tell you. I just know the cost of feed ingredients had never been as high as they were last year.
ReplyDeleteI think I'd have to go back to school to figure out how to figure your days off. Someone had way too much time on their hands when they figured up how to calculate vacation!
ReplyDeleteLOL on the floaters.
It is nice to hear of a company doing good for a change!
Sounds like your company did really well! I'm glad you won't have to worry about KEEPING your job like so many others do. I'm really worried about the economy and how hard it's going to hit so many Americans!!!
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