Highly Irritating Fucking Work Bullshit.....

[DISCLAIMER: This blog entry will be laden with expletives throughout, probably even more than one would normally expect from me. If you are easily offended by that sort of language, you have an obligation to yourself as well as to me to fuck off and stop reading now.]

I am highly fucking annoyed this morning. Upon our arrival into work, Amy sent me a copy of an email she received from the HR rep who handled her pregnancy/family leave. It is very difficult to explain in layman terms, so here is the text:

"Hi Amy-

I still need to deduct $1,844.57 of Larkin payments from your paycheck. I try to stay on top of the deductions but these were payments you received at the time you went on unpaid leave so I was not able to deduct them from your pay. I can take the deduction over several paychecks. Let me know what will work best for you. Payroll close is today for 11/30 paycheck so I will need to know first thing in the morning.

Thanks"

Fucking excuse me?

We asked countless damn questions before Amy went out on her leave, made arrangements to set money aside, moved forward with our plans under the assumption - based in no small part on the answer we received at the time from the HR Department - we would not be hit with a situation like this. Amy has been back at work for less than a full-fucking-week and here we are, presented with a "bill" we had absolutely no inkling or idea we would have to deal with. This comes completely out of the blue, and at the beginning of the holiday season to boot! Oh, and by the way, their idea of spreading this out over "several paychecks" was three or four, meaning in the best possible situation Amy would end up losing almost $462 per paycheck. At the beginning of the holiday season, with a new bill of daycare now added to our budget, this is near impossible to swing.

I just don't fucking get it. It appears to me like there is a bit of backpedaling going on here, like the proper planning was not implemented and now we are expected to pay the bill to cover their asses. Here is the explanation given:

"EPRI pays 75% of your pay while you are leave and Larkin pays you 55% of pay. Between the 2 your pay should not exceed 75% of pay so I would deduct the Larkin amount from your paycheck. You received a check for $1614 on 10/1 and one for $230.57 on 10/15. I placed you on unpaid leave on 10/1 so I was not able to deduct those payments (total $1844.57). Your PFL payments are not deducted because you were unpaid by EPRI."

Still confused? Yeah....us too. We didn't ask for that to be done and it certainly was not explained to us in advance. Had it been, we would have said "Keep the checks from Larkin". We could have set more money aside than we did. We could have planned for it instead of being sideswiped and laid out.....

So, as it fucking stands right now, no matter how it is explained or how seemingly logical to our HR Department it may be, we are still going to be fucking out a certain amount of money from Amy's paycheck that we had not planned on or expected to have to consider. All because she went out to have a baby and take some time to heal and bond with our child. And, on top of all of that frustration, it is needing to be addressed as Christmas bears down on all of us. Great. Fucking wonderful, morons. Thanks a fucking lot.

I am just so fucking angry right now that I seriously feel like putting my fucking fist through a goddamn wall. Or someone's face.