**rant Alert!**

iolanthe07

It's helpful to try and build up a float of £500 or so to cushion the effects of wages coming in late. Easier said than done, though, I know.

Snaggles

It is a good idea to have some kind of contingency fund I agree, but particularly difficult at Xmas lol!

I love your sig iolanthe, that's a fab sentiment!

poppycracker

iolanthe07 wrote:

It's helpful to try and build up a float of £500 or so to cushion the effects of wages coming in late. Easier said than done, though, I know.

VERY much easier said than done!

nethesi

i work in accounts and for this very reason we pay people on the last possible day of the month (this year the 29th). We still have to do all the work for it early as we close for Christmas but it means that people don't spend what they haven't really got!

In response the OP's comments about her company not knowing when they're going to be paid I just can't believe it. We publish payment dates a year in advance on our intranet. OK so we're a bigish company (500 people) but the smaller the co the simpler the work is. At the very least they should know by now when they pay you. As someone else said the monthly pay run is a big task. It can take a day for 2 people to set up and send, and that's after calculating adjustments for unpaid leave, sick pay, changes in tax rates... Not to mention canteen lunch deductions, commissions/bonuses and expense claims!

I'd ring back on monday if I was you and try to speak to someone a bit more with it!:p

david_hellier

Pay day/dates cause a lot of people anxiety. However with careful budgetting and and recording of spending it should be possible to ignore your bank balance and eliminate this monthly or weekly cycle of pain.

Perhaps if you put up your SOA we could all try and help?

Good luck.

Debt_Free_Chick

Although you spoke to Accounts, perhaps the person concerned is not involved in the payroll and therefore doesn't need to know

Accounts departments have other functions, in addition to payroll. Is it so tough to have to wait until Monday?

Find something positive to enjoy in your weekend

Annie_Fanny

Debt_Free_Chick wrote:

Although you spoke to Accounts, perhaps the person concerned is not involved in the payroll and therefore doesn't need to know

Accounts departments have other functions, in addition to payroll. Is it so tough to have to wait until Monday?

Find something positive to enjoy in your weekend

Debt_Free_Chick - I am totally enjoying my weekend. I am at my second job which is so quiet at the moment that I spend all day on the internet without repercussion! Woo hoo!

It is of course not tough to wait until Monday to speak to accounts but I am making the point that members of staff, I believe, should not be in the dark about when they are getting paid. I have just spoken to a colleague now and she says that she will have to get our boss to ring accounts and beg to be paid on the 21st! I should point out that I have had problems with this woman in accounts before. I have been working at my weekend job now for 4 months and even though I have asked she has not taken a penny of tax from my monthly wage!! I am obviously frustrated!

But no it won't affect my weekend - I am on joining the £1028 money from nothing challenge!

mountainofdebt

With Christmas coming alot of companies pay their staff early and make pay January's slightly earlier as well so to ease the Christmas expense (not that us DFW's will be spending alot !)

In fairness we didn't know until this week when December/January payday was going to be.

Like others have said, if you assuem the worst then anything else will be a pleasant surprise.

As for paying no tax now that is something I would be getting worked up about as its going to be YOU that lands up with the tax bill not her!

THE_LONE_RANGER_4

Annie_Fanny wrote:

Lone Ranger

December/January will be the first month that I am not living in my overdraft and will be using a comprehensively compiled budget. Therefore I want to know when I will get paid so that I can give myself a HUGE pack on the back. But asides from that I do not think it is cool for an accounts department to not know when they or indeed the rest of the company are getting paid!

Annie

well done for not living in overdraft etc but why do you not assume it will come on the day it is due, most if not all employers pay on the same date or early ,very few pay you later, then you cant go wrong ...

THE_LONE_RANGER_4

i would also point out ,hr dept as far as most are concerned you should know the pay date etc ,they will tell you if you are being paid early ,to be honest it would iritate me in hr if i got calls when am i getting paid etc. in our hr depts the rule is pay date as normal but being in there i know it is 20th dec, but you cant touch it so whats the point unless as stated your paid by cheque and to be honest thats a bit jurrassic