Also? No health benefits are included in the package. If I want them, the salary is decreased.

Huh.

And what Jessica asked.

This is my third choice out of the three. I am still waiting for word on company A, that I really really want and company B (beat me daddy, 8 to the bar) that I would really also like to work for.

In re: bridesmaid dresses. Being the wedding florist/planner/officiant, I've escaped the hell of poufy sleeves and bowed butt. And I've seen some real travesties...on the order of Anya's fishscale monstrosities.

The very best looking wedding party I've ever seen was told by the bride to choose any dress they wanted as long as it was black. The groomsmen wore black tuxes with green/black dotted satin cumberbunds and bowties I made.

I made a hair ornament for each of the women's hair and thier bouquets from the same material.

The women, who ranged from a 90lbs 4'10" to a 275 lb 5'10" all looked lovely and were made even more gorgeous because they were comfortable.

Of the 5 maids in another wedding I did the flowers for, all given the instruction to choose a 'Fall' color...three from wildly different parts of the country all chose the very same dress!! It was freaky. And very pretty.

Then you should email company 3-out-of-3 back and tell them you'll consider their offer carefully and try and hold them off as long as possible so you can (I hope) email them back that company 1-out-of-3 knows an Empress when they see one.

What Sparky said!

Great minds, Sparky. He wanted me to start tomorrow, I told him that I was unable to start until next Monday and that I'd be talking to Joe about the offer and will let him know.

Please please please let awesome comapny A or B want me.

In that case...it doesn't sound like a great offer to me. I mean, they have to know health insurance isn't exactly optional, in which case they also know the salary they're offering you isn't the salary you'd be agreeing to recieve.

[eta: And I like Sparky's response.]

Exactly. I mean, if Joe had the county job, the benefits wouldn't be that big a deal since we'd be using his, anyway. But since we still don't know about that....we need benes.

ARGH!

If I give you a memo with a signature acknowledgement sheet that says "I have read and understood this memo" that means you read and understand it! Not just blindly sign something! It also means that you can't come back 2 months later and say "I didn't know there was a policy change" because you signed it!

Also my doctor's office is trying to kill me. I called them today to let them know I needed an antibiotic that's not sulfa, penicillin or macrodanten and what do they call in? One that's a generic of Macrodanten! Luckily I asked what medicine and I could head that off at the pass. So they had to talk to the doctor and finally called me back with a scrip for Sipro.

Which they didn't exactly want to give me since I couldn't tell them the last date of my period. I explained - PCOS, irregluar periods -- but the nurse didn't sound so convinced. I offered to sign something and fax it to them, but she finally called it in.

ARGH, indeed, askye. My knee jerk reaction to Cipro is "horse pill!" I apparently found them, literally, hard to swallow somewhere in my past.

Aimee, would your salary be decreased only by the cost of the health insurance, and would that money come back into your paycheck if you gave up the health insurance later? This man on the other end of your email is not my favorite person today, and I don't trust him completely.