Apartment hunting is the worst thing in the world. It’s such a roller coaster ride as seemingly awesome places look incredibly terrible in person and the so-so places online turn out to be brilliant. It sucks finding one incredible place only to find out they don’t accept pets or that the rent is increasing above your budget. In our case, we found a nearly perfect place and then realized it was perched right over the apt building’s garage door. Yikes. That’s probably no good. We’re going back tonight to take a look. Hopefully this works out.

20 degrees is making me feel pretty dumb about taking the plastic off of the windows and putting away my heavier jackets, hat and gloves.

I left my employee ID in the lunch room the other day. Thankfully someone turned it in and I only had to go down to the front desk to pick it up. Still though, pretty dumb.

So, the new job is pretty fantastic overall. The dress code and environment are casual, the hours are somewhat flexible, the work is relatively easy and enjoyable, but the administrative end of things has not gone too well.

Around new years my first paycheck was messed up – they simply forgot to pay me for the first week that I worked. That was resolved eventually but then I got a letter in the mail asking me to sign a waiver because I had elected not to have health insurance! I emailed HR about this but they had no clue what it was so after digging through the stacks of paperwork and brochures mailed to me over the last few weeks I found one half-sheet of paper buried amongst 50 page books that told me I had to log onto a website and enroll myself for health insurance. The deadline was only about 3 weeks after my first day of work, which means I was probably mailed that form with one week until the deadline and never received any reminder about it. Now I must wait until April to get health insurance. I’m also probably screwed because my knee injury will count as a pre-existing condition I bet. Wow. And finally, my 401k payments are not showing up and after I contacted my provider to roll over the last job’s 401k I’ve heard nothing back from them.

What good are benefits when you’re not actually getting them?