I do payroll for the non-profit I'm involved in. What a freaking headache. There was a "fat finger" mistake on someone's check, on the payroll vendor side, that got them to overpay the person fairly significantly. Through a perfect storm of me being out of town, etc. I never had a chance to catch the report before the person got paid.

In addition to the person being overpaid, it also overdrafted the account that I draw payroll out of, which set-off a series of bank generated fees.

When I got back in town and noticed the error I asked the payroll vendor (PAYCHEX) if they would reimburse me for the financial hardship they placed my organization under because of their mistake. Their answer was no, they don't take responsibility for their mistakes.

The employee, sensing I was going to ask them to reimburse me / deduct it from future payrolls, quit. They essentially took the money and ran.

Now, legally, I could go after them but the amount didn't justify getting a lawyer involved. So I was in double trouble.

Finally, about 3 months later, we cleaned up the books. But, Paychex decided it would be a great time to migrate their online payroll to a new system, which wiped out the history of everything. Our little payroll problems triggered a state audit (we're a tax funded non-profit) and we had no documentation to back-up what happened because Paychex lost the paper trail.

It opened up another 3 month can of worms. :mad:

They key take-away on this is never use Paychex as a payroll vendor. Never. They suck at everything and they don't stand behind their (sloppy) work. I'm still bitter about the whole thing.

In other news, I just confirmed that my raise wasn't an error. ^

Yes, but when the other people are too dumb to realize it's wrong, they see it and think that it's acceptable, and don't change their bad habits. They're more likely to learn when they see it consistently modeled correctly.

I've had terrible experience with consumer printers from various manufacturers. I heard good things about Canon's PIXMAs so I got one and have been very happy with it. I've not had any issues with it. Occasionally the PC it's connected to stops seeing it and I have to reboot, but I blame Wind:rolleyes:ws for that.

Hmmm - I wonder if this is worth going down to BWI...

What a mess! Makes me glad I didn't get the job with Paychex I was up for a few years ago.

And congrats on the raise!

That's another can of worms. I love it when a professional institution (USAirways is a great example) sends out marketing material that's littered with mistakes. How can I trust you to put a 100 ton metal tube 30,000 feet into the air if you can't construct a complete sentence.

My pet peeve is two spaces after periods. That went the way of the dodo with the advent of the computer. I see that all the time.

ssullivan, I know a few people that work for Paychex and they say it's not a bad place to work. They serviced my account flawlessly for about a year and one simple mistake set-off a huge headache.

What aggravated me about the whole thing was the fact that they were quick to admit their mistake but refused to do anything to help rectify it. "I'm sorry" has very little tangible value.

I ended up pulling the account from them. And if anyone on here uses Paychex, consider finding a new vendor. I wouldn't trust them with a Canadian quarter.

I was thinking the same thing.

At a previous job, they gave me my usual direct deposit , and then forgot to zero out the paystub. Of course I did not check the stub out , I had just verified the deposit online.
A week later I got called into an office and got accussed of trying to steal from the company. I got a lecture on how I should have returned the check immediately and how this looked bad , and he did not know what he was going to do.
After listening to his rant , I told him I had no Idea what he was talking about and then opened my bag and showed him the sealed envelope from Paychex and gave it to him . He opened it and insisted I should have returned as soon as I saw the error (which was at that exact moment ) :rolleyes:

That alone makes me question their software. Any decent payroll system would not do this. There should be no manual intervention needed.

Anyone in the Box want to opine who will be the next Cleveland Browns head coach?

It was like a mistake fare, only I had no clue it was taking place.

Not for just one, as the transit costs to BWI would be too much, I think. Of course, if you're willing to go on 2/28 and 3/1, you can double up. I'm booking now, with hope that rationalization will come later. At 2.2cpEQM and 12K EQMs banked it is a pretty decent fare for domestic. My only problem is that on day 2 I get to SEA too late to catch the EWR non-stop, saving me some Amtrak time/money.

You can even triple dip Fri/Sat/Sun if you want, but the Saturday flight is on NW through DTW so 50% EQMs and a shorter flight in general. On the plus side, more lines. ;)

Or Sat/Sun/Mon (arrive BWI Tues 11:30a) for a 3x run is also available. My bigger problem is that I'm going to drop from 125% to 25% bonus RDMs on 3/1, so those flights aren't worth as much. :(

On the plus side, I'll be fully back to silver qualification on 3/1.

Agreed. If I do any of these, I'll do at least 2 or 3.

lulz0tter be up in daz Canadia, workin wif grammarz good. Iz powerz of warmf not worky here. Posty Nu Yearz to allz. ^ :)