The Bad, vol. 1: I asked for more vacation during my review. Request denied. “We can’t have a special leave class for one employee.” How about, let’s make the leave policy not suck so hard then?
The Good: I’m still getting the 5% raise, retroactive to my anniversary date in October.
The Aggravating.: I want out of our 401k plan. Legally I can do an in-service rollover of all my monies with no penalty if I never control the funds, Financial Institution A tells me. Yep, that’s sure true, says Financial Institution B, but your plan prohibits withdrawing any monies that have been contributed while you’re an employee. Oh, says I, who sets those rules. The plan administrator, says B. Our plan administrator tells me she has no control over the rules. Um, no, I’m hearing the same thing from two separate financial institutions and you’re telling me not-that-thing. Someone is either lying or mistaken. Please check into it.
I really didn’t want to know that: During our weekly meeting I mentioned a task in my workplan for a particular regional office. Of the two people in that office, he asked me, which of them does the bulk of the work on this project? I told him I had no clue. Apparently one of these two people is getting laid off, and soon. Having been laid off it makes me want to tell them both to prep. But I can’t, can I?
I didn’t know one could legally roll out of their 401(k) plan without switching jobs. Hmmm… I need to find a nice “Mattress Fund.”
As far as notifying your coworkers – do you feel a particular affinity to either, or are they just coworkers? If so, keep it to yourself. (Or, ask yourself what do you hope to accomplish by getting involved? There would appear to be only downside.)