So today I went to my mail slot, to pick up all my mail, and my last 10 or so paychecks
And I’m going through them and between the 11/15 check and the 11/30 my bonus YTD has gone up $1400, but there’s nothing indicating that I was paid $1400. So I go down to payroll and show them my checks and she looks it up and says that in november, a check was issued to me, And they ask if I won some kind of award but was never told or paid. Usually they issue this award for filing a patent or something, and I know I haven’t so….

Then the payroll lady calls me back and double checks that the project manager didn’t give me an award. She relates that I was, in fact supposed to have received an award and check back in November.

Now I just got the real info: My boss told me that I was supposed to be given an award and check for extra-work back in the fall and it wasn’t a public presentation award(They’re usually given out at our all-hands meetings), because it was for personal extra effort. So now this is what’s happened:

I wasn’t told that I was supposed to get an award that people didn’t know about. It wasn’t given to me, I can’t tell people about it and no-one knows what happened or where it is.

But at least it’s on my permanent record.

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