ho-hum...more time for leather

[TwinOaks]

Well, I just don't know how to react to my company right now. In Nov. of last year, Sylvania Lighting Svcs bought Amtech Lighting Svcs. It's a pretty good move and the important part is that the merger is supposed to make the best of both's business practices. The real result is that former Amtech is being dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century. Some of us welcomed the change (as I'm formerly of Amtech) but it's causing some problems. SLS has a different way of doing things, relying on a lot of soft- and hardware to reduce paper. On my end of things, it means the elimination of petty cash. It's replaced by a corporate credit card. That card has a cash advance feature for per diem as required for travelling electricians like me. Here comes the problem. Last week I had to fully reimburse all petty cash funds disbursed to me.....on the info that our shiny new credit cards would be there today. They weren't. As there is no longer any mechanism to issue cash nor any other form of advance, I was left with two choices: Finance my week long trek from my personal account, or not. I don't have the spare funds to go run company business for a week. I shouldn't have to. In the past, I've run into situations where I needed to spend some of my own money- and I had it to spend, so I did and it took about two weeks to recoup the money. There's also the small but significant element that since everything's on the new system, there's really no way for them to reimburse ME for expenses. So, I persued a few avenues of recourse and in the end told them that I couldn't pay to work for them this week. Result? "Clock out, go home, we'll call you when the cards show up. Maybe you can use vacation time to cover the hours." Has anyone else ever experienced this, and how did you handle it?

Oh well.

At least I have some dead cow skins to beat on.

[jbird]

Sorry Mike

hows it going sounds not so good hers a Six pack of coke from me

Josh