January 2009

Busy day today

January 31, 2009

Won’t be getting much blogging done today. I have to be at the campus by 2:00 (meaning I have to leave here by 1:00) for a memorial service for the Grand Old Man of the history department, who passed a month ago under difficult circumstances. Quite some time ago, before I realized I would be [...]

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Carnival of Personal Finance Comin’ Our Way

January 30, 2009

Next Monday, Funny about Money gets to host its first Carnival of Personal Finance! I’m reading submissions now and getting a big boot out of them. I love hosting carnivals. It always introduces me to sites that I didn’t know about, and it allows you to read a lot of posts you might not have [...]

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Teapot’s tempest loses steam

January 30, 2009

Hmmm… This furlough thing may not be the disaster initially envisioned. Instead of requiring people to take a day a week, as was our first impression, HR (always a fount of accuracy…) is saying they expect employees to take one unpaid day per paycheck. For faculty working and paid on a 12-month appointment,this furlough program [...]

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Update on layoff vs. retirement benefits

January 29, 2009

So I called the state’s General Accounting Office, by some miracle reaching the woman who manages RASL, the state benefit whereby employees get paid a portion of their hourly wage for each hour of accrued sick leave they’ve accumulated. You could hear her hair rising off her head to stand straight on end as I [...]

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Early practice for early retirement

January 29, 2009

Wow! I just figured out what the furlough means to my budget. My hourly pay is about $30 an hour: that’s $240 a day. If they make me take one unpaid day a week for the next 12 weeks, that’s a gross pay cut of $480 per paycheck or $960 a month. My net biweekly [...]

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Furloughed! Parboil the fruits before canning?

January 28, 2009

Well, I found out about it from NPR news first, while driving home through the interminable rush-hour traffic: every Great Desert University employee is to be furloughed between now and the end of the fiscal year, June 30. When I raced in the house and pulled up my e-mail, yea verily, there was a message [...]

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