Complaint 1 - Salaries
We have received Traci's W2 from work, and are just waiting on mine, so that I can complete our taxes for the 2006 calendar year -- I've got access to everything else.
I use TurboTax, so it's relatively easy to do multiple tax return scenarios, simply by changing what you want... total time invested last night was 15 minutes.
The other good thing about TurboTax, is if you've used it in the previous year, you can import your tax file. When working through the process, at different stages, it will show you your current tax situation as compared to the previous year's (I'm sure all tax software does this.)
This is where my compliant comes in. In 2005 Traci worked in private practice. She hated it. Hated the firm, hated the type of law, hated tracking her time in 15 minute increments, hated (how should I say this) the pressure to spend more time completeing a task for a weathly client than was necessary -- spending 30 minutes filling out a form that should only take 5~10 minutes, etc...
In 2006, she went back working for local government, where the pressures are reversed... Get as much done in as little time as possible. She likes this environment. She feels she's working more for the client's true interest (getting the correct outcome with respect to justice), than her employer's pocketbook. Nothing is a perfect system, but she likes where she's at.
Problem is she took a 20% pay-cut to go from private practice to public service. We knew this going in. However, the county lawyers (they are members of a Teamster's Union) were supposed to get a new contract at the beginning of 2006 and a pay increase to go with that new contract. While we didn't know what that increase would be, we figured, anything would help offset the initial pay reduction.
It is now January of 2007, and no contract or pay increase yet. Staring in July of 2006, we heard "anytime now..."
Comcast asked me to take a similar pay decrease, along with other de-incentives for the new job.
My compliant. We both do good work... somebody pony up the money. We BOTH can't take a 20% pay decrease. Not going to happen.
We've committed/promised the County, Traci would work there for 2 years. We are both people of our word. She will work there for 1 more year, and then she's going to find something in the private sector. She gets asked once or twice a month by different attorneys/firms if she is interested in leaving the public sector. She'll just have to find something that she likes or at least can tolerate in the private sectore. I'm pretty sure she has a standing offer from a local firm (fairly large for our area)... She's just never investigated it.
I use TurboTax, so it's relatively easy to do multiple tax return scenarios, simply by changing what you want... total time invested last night was 15 minutes.
The other good thing about TurboTax, is if you've used it in the previous year, you can import your tax file. When working through the process, at different stages, it will show you your current tax situation as compared to the previous year's (I'm sure all tax software does this.)
This is where my compliant comes in. In 2005 Traci worked in private practice. She hated it. Hated the firm, hated the type of law, hated tracking her time in 15 minute increments, hated (how should I say this) the pressure to spend more time completeing a task for a weathly client than was necessary -- spending 30 minutes filling out a form that should only take 5~10 minutes, etc...
In 2006, she went back working for local government, where the pressures are reversed... Get as much done in as little time as possible. She likes this environment. She feels she's working more for the client's true interest (getting the correct outcome with respect to justice), than her employer's pocketbook. Nothing is a perfect system, but she likes where she's at.
Problem is she took a 20% pay-cut to go from private practice to public service. We knew this going in. However, the county lawyers (they are members of a Teamster's Union) were supposed to get a new contract at the beginning of 2006 and a pay increase to go with that new contract. While we didn't know what that increase would be, we figured, anything would help offset the initial pay reduction.
It is now January of 2007, and no contract or pay increase yet. Staring in July of 2006, we heard "anytime now..."
Comcast asked me to take a similar pay decrease, along with other de-incentives for the new job.
My compliant. We both do good work... somebody pony up the money. We BOTH can't take a 20% pay decrease. Not going to happen.
We've committed/promised the County, Traci would work there for 2 years. We are both people of our word. She will work there for 1 more year, and then she's going to find something in the private sector. She gets asked once or twice a month by different attorneys/firms if she is interested in leaving the public sector. She'll just have to find something that she likes or at least can tolerate in the private sectore. I'm pretty sure she has a standing offer from a local firm (fairly large for our area)... She's just never investigated it.
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posted by Rich B | 8:50 AM
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So what are you going to be doing now for Comcast?
I am working on migrating the last of the services (corporate domain based mail especially), over to the out-sourced mail provider Comcast uses for domain name (they call vanity domains).
After that, I'm done. February 28 is my last day, as of right now.
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