Revelations day
May. 6th, 2021 09:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
whitewriter Today I learnt that work was overpaying me since 2017 because they granted me an allowance for my Masters degree. This allowance is like $70 a fortnight with each pay until whenever - you leave.
I technically left in 2019 because I went to SSH to do midi.
I was casual at MISH and they stopped my allowance. I worked so few hours that year I thought it wasn't worth chasing.
Then I quit MSH/SSH and went back to MISH and I wanted my allowance back. So I reapplied.
Then they realised that I was never eligible in the first place.
whups.
Imagine if I had never left. I would have been getting heaps of money I wasn't eligible for.
But turns out as I've at least done a grad diploma in critical care I was eligible for at least the majority of what they paid me for anyways (just not to masters level).
I guess all that studying paid off!
And just to think, I applied for that masters money thing only cause someone else who did the same course said they applied, and got it -- (back in 2017)-- so they would have been over paid too -- cept they've left now and well too bad for you *my employer* how are you ever going to get that money back.
So now, I have to do some studies.
Pete asked me today if it was going to be worth it going through the effort of doing the studies (like doing the 2nd masters 'cause the first one wasn't worth extra pay). He said I should sit down and calculate it.
To me, I think it's always worth it.
Second revelation:
I thought I was efficient for St Johns Ambulance for the last 10 years from 2011-2020 straight.
To be efficient you must:
1. do 60 duty hours a year, the year starts nov 30. and ends nov 30 each year.
2. do all the paperwork. Tick the boxes, sign the dots. blah. There are multiple things to fill out... Forget one, your whole year doesn't count.
3. keep up to date with your certificates (but being an RN really helps- but also brings more stress cause the policies are different and you need to remember all of them, and if you don't attend training it's really easy to forget something cause its different to the hospital).
Turns out they remember all my records from 2008. I did enough hours to count for 2009 and 2008, but not 2020 (wtf?!) cause I forgot to read an email asking me to do my criminal record check last year- and tick some dumb boxes (fuck paperwork) seriously, it was super easy to be efficient last year and I failed--
and apparently in 2014 I didn't do enough hours (for this I blame being worried I was going through severe relationship stress with S and also, I was worried I was being seen as not "handling it" in the ICU training program at MISH).
but I still make 10 years by 2019. They say I wasn't awarded because their systems "didn't align"
Clearly. But I keep records. You don't volunteer to not get a 10 yr service thingo. It's the only payment we get!
There's one thing on my record I want to question but I'm worried that if I do so, I will loose 2 yrs of service and be out by 1 year. I should qualify this year so perhaps it would shake out eventually.
3rd revelation... I had an idea about shotgun weddings... and I'm keeping my mouth zippered on that one.
I technically left in 2019 because I went to SSH to do midi.
I was casual at MISH and they stopped my allowance. I worked so few hours that year I thought it wasn't worth chasing.
Then I quit MSH/SSH and went back to MISH and I wanted my allowance back. So I reapplied.
Then they realised that I was never eligible in the first place.
whups.
Imagine if I had never left. I would have been getting heaps of money I wasn't eligible for.
But turns out as I've at least done a grad diploma in critical care I was eligible for at least the majority of what they paid me for anyways (just not to masters level).
I guess all that studying paid off!
And just to think, I applied for that masters money thing only cause someone else who did the same course said they applied, and got it -- (back in 2017)-- so they would have been over paid too -- cept they've left now and well too bad for you *my employer* how are you ever going to get that money back.
So now, I have to do some studies.
Pete asked me today if it was going to be worth it going through the effort of doing the studies (like doing the 2nd masters 'cause the first one wasn't worth extra pay). He said I should sit down and calculate it.
To me, I think it's always worth it.
Second revelation:
I thought I was efficient for St Johns Ambulance for the last 10 years from 2011-2020 straight.
To be efficient you must:
1. do 60 duty hours a year, the year starts nov 30. and ends nov 30 each year.
2. do all the paperwork. Tick the boxes, sign the dots. blah. There are multiple things to fill out... Forget one, your whole year doesn't count.
3. keep up to date with your certificates (but being an RN really helps- but also brings more stress cause the policies are different and you need to remember all of them, and if you don't attend training it's really easy to forget something cause its different to the hospital).
Turns out they remember all my records from 2008. I did enough hours to count for 2009 and 2008, but not 2020 (wtf?!) cause I forgot to read an email asking me to do my criminal record check last year- and tick some dumb boxes (fuck paperwork) seriously, it was super easy to be efficient last year and I failed--
and apparently in 2014 I didn't do enough hours (for this I blame being worried I was going through severe relationship stress with S and also, I was worried I was being seen as not "handling it" in the ICU training program at MISH).
but I still make 10 years by 2019. They say I wasn't awarded because their systems "didn't align"
Clearly. But I keep records. You don't volunteer to not get a 10 yr service thingo. It's the only payment we get!
There's one thing on my record I want to question but I'm worried that if I do so, I will loose 2 yrs of service and be out by 1 year. I should qualify this year so perhaps it would shake out eventually.
3rd revelation... I had an idea about shotgun weddings... and I'm keeping my mouth zippered on that one.
