Omfg I'm livid. So new owners at my company took over a year ago. First 3 months they couldn't get everyone's tax rate correct. I went from paying about 350 a month to 450 in federal. I tried multiple times to get it straightened out no avail. Fine. Whatever. At least it comes back at end of year right?
Fast forward 8 months. After multiple missed days of PTO on my check (schedule a vacation only to not get paid for the time off because they were too lazy to input it), last pay period was a day late because the payroll lady was sick and didn't show up. This weeks check is less $250.18 for “Payroll correction”. I asked what it was about, i was told Family Medical Leave act taxes. I said no. Since January you've charged me 0.6% of gross pay as required. I've googled my FMLA tax rate, double check the math on my own paystub and deduce that the new payroll lady charged the interest rates of both mine and my employers contribution in about ten minutes. Also charged me the annual total on top of what has already been paid this year. Its taken payroll lady 2 days and she still didn't know exactly what happened. I texted her pictures of tax rates and math errors. Which pisses me off. I'm not an accountant – do your own damn job. Did I mention there are only 11 employees?
I'm fucking livid. I don't have a lot of money. No savings and working hand to mouth. Is it too much to ask that they not fuck up my paycheck? I mean, it only comes every couple weeks. Double check it for accuracy, make sure it makes sense and send it. I may possibly have to wait until next pay period for the mistaken deduction to be applied on my next check. That pisses me off. The lackluster energy at my workplace about fixing it is eating at me too.
I'm not here to hate on accountants or payroll specialists. I think the great majority do an outstanding job. Its a hard job to be so painfully accurate everyday. So hats off to the ones that are.
Thanks for letting me vent.. Have a great rest of the week.