Business etiquette and integrity Part II

fendergirl
Wed, 20 Apr 2011 20:05:00 +0000

nj - my company has done online paystubs ever since I’ve been working there. Can you access the system from home? If I need one, I just pull it up at home and print out a copy. The system saves them for two years and i can have as many copies as I need of certain ones without taking up unnecessary space in my filing cabinets.

I do have to check mine every time because when you paychecks vary as much as mine do, you need to be on top of it. My company does things a bit funky… we’re ‘salaried’ at x amout of money… when you get a raise it’s a percent of x amount of money, rather then say 50 cents an hr or whatever… but in our paycheck they convert it to an hourly rate and we do get paid time and a half on overtime, even though we’re ‘salaried’. we then get performance ‘bonuses’ or ‘incentives’ in one pay check a month. Some of these show up under one line item on our pay check, other show up on other line items, etc. you need to be on top of things to make sure everything you are supposed to be getting is in there, to the best of your ability. Then, if you worked any overtime, they go back and re-calculate what you would have been paid hourly based on your salary plus the amount of incentive that you earned during that pay period. They then pay you an adjustment on your overtime pay. It’s quite complicated. So if someone makes… say 15 dollars an hour base pay, which is 22.50 on overtime… and they work five hours OT, they’ll get that 22.50x5 in their paycheck. Now at the end of the month when incentives get released, if they figure out that your incentive worked out hourly worked out to be 5 dollars per hour, they’ll go back and pay you an extra 7.50 per hour for each of those 5 hours that you worked. These things all show up differently in each paycheck. I remember showing pay stubs to my loan person when I was getting my house and she looked at it like it was a foreign object. :)

I had gotten two 200 dollar incentives for something one time and for some reason only one went in my paycheck. I think it took me like two months to get the other 200 dollars straightened out with HR. Apparently they thought it was a typo when two were requested.