My angst filled rant (Now with 98% less swearing)

This is what my head feels like at the moment...



I’m not usually a complainer, but I really need to rant at the moment and unfortunately this is my outlet.

The stupid payroll office has screwed up my pay – royally – and it couldn’t have happened at a worse time. My pay was supposed to go through last Friday…it’s now Thursday, almost a week later.

I’ve composed myself a list of things I was supposed to pay, how much, when it was due and my comments.

Rent - $800 – due Friday. There’s late fees on this one. I got a call from the real estate agent yesterday while I was at work. They were, rightly, wondering why I hadn’t paid. I was at work so I couldn’t answer my mobile. They then called my ex because he’s still listed as living there. But that means I’ve been getting calls from the ex asking if everything’s ok, and if I want him to pay it and if I need him to come over and ‘sort anything out for me’. Which I think is hilarious (in a either laugh or cry way) because I was always the one who paid the bills and rent and stuff.

Smash Repairer - $300 – due last Saturday. The original quote for my car was $800, and he only takes cash, so I rocked up with the $800 in cash and turns out he had to replace the headlights because they couldn’t be fixed, that was an extra $300. I was ok with that because he was still doing it for a grand less than anyone else had quoted, and he was happy for me to take my car and pay him the extra on the weekend. While there’s no late fees on this – I still wanted to pay him.

Gym Fees - $44 – due Tuesday this week. Ok, so it’s less than $50, but I can’t go to the gym until this is paid and there’s a late fee on this now. It was actually die on Friday but they let me extend it.

Credit Card - $3,000 - $100 due on Tuesday this week. The majority of this is left over from a holiday I took last year, and that’s being paid off gradually, but there’s now late fees on the whole amount because the $100 wasn’t paid on time.

Vodafone - $500 – due about a week ago. It’s not gonna be long before they cut off my phone. There’s also probably a late fee on that too.

My Parents - $2,000 – no due date. Because of the break-up, I had to buy the ex out of his half of the fridge, microwave and everything in the kitchen. I also had to pay to get the car fixed, registered, insured and new tyres. It was all too much in the space of a week (it all happened in the course of 5 measly days!) So I had to borrow from the folks. I hated that, so I was hoping to pay back as much as possible. We (the ex and I) also had our quarterly bills come in - the gas, electricity and stuff - in that same awful week.

So you see, it’s been a tough month. I now owe $6,644.00-ish, I just spoke to an accounts person and they said it should ‘hopefully’ go through today. Below is a time-line of the accounts idiots.

Friday last week – my pay should have been processed but wasn’t. It’ll be there in the morning I guessed.

Saturday last week – still no pay.

Sunday last week – still nothing, I’m annoyed now.

Monday this week – Still nothing, I called the accounts department and was told that they got my account number wrong (I don’t know how seeing as it went through on the same number last month!) and that it would be reprocessed that afternoon, in my account on Tuesday, Wednesday at the latest.

Tuesday – still nothing

Wednesday – called accounts again, it wasn’t processed as she was away ‘sick’ the day before (that btich better have been dying) and that it was being processed that day.

Thursday (today) still hasn’t even been signed off. I spoke to a bevy of people, only to be told that it “might” be signed off in a few hours and if it was it will “hopefully” be paid today.

So there’s my end of week update. I think I need to cry. The money’s either in my account by COB today or I’m not turning up tomorrow.

I just checked my account then – for a laugh. It hasn’t gone through.

Music in my head: nothing. I have a headache. No, wait, By the River of Babylon. Get out!