I was not before, but now am totally picturing Jesse in Paris and Iceland, with cowboy hat and boots and fringe. :)

Had a sleep study last night with CPAP. Will find out how it went soon. First, an annoying work teleconference and a horrid email from someone who is pissy because she feels like she's being scapegoated, and wrote an awful "I am so offended how dare you scapegoat me this is all your fault and not mine" email, and now I have to write a conciliatory "I'm sorry you feel that way and the follow up I was doing was only because the situation happened, and not blaming you" when what I WANT to say is "bitch please, if you had done your job, none of this would be a problem, but you didn't, so now SEVERAL people are in trouble"

Dang, first Paris, now Reykjavik! And mobile wifi. I want to be Jesse right now.

Okay, check me on this; I know I'm not a tax professional, but this sounds weird: the AMA hasn't sent me a 1099 for my 2013 work, so I sent an email to my boss to follow up, and she said that I don't get a 1099 "because [I'm] a contractor." Um, that's EXACTLY who gets 1099s, right? That's the point of a 1099 -- it's for non-employees who work and receive payment from a company.

Right?

When I was a contractor, I got 1099-MISC.

That is the form I meant, yeah. I just shorthanded it to "1099". Sorry.

My question still stands though: don't companies have to provide 1099-MISC forms to contractors who are paid to perform work for the company? It sounds like my boss is saying the opposite of that: that *because* I'm a contractor, I don't receive a form that contractors are *supposed* to receive.

Your boss is wrong, Tep. Freelancers should get 1099's from their contract employers.

she said that I don't get a 1099 "because [I'm] a contractor." Um, that's EXACTLY who gets 1099s, right?

You're right, and your boss is wrong.

Cool. I'ma email her back and tell her I'm happy to talk directly to someone in Payroll/Accounting instead of making her the go-between (I mean, I feel like she SHOULD know about this, since she manages a staff of freelancers, but whatev).

Yeah, you should get some kind of form. I assume the AMA is not paying you under the table.

My apartment is adorable! A little studio furnished entirely be Ikea. I wish I had a plug converter, because I would just stay here all night. But then my phone would die, so I'd better go out at some point.

I assume the AMA is not paying you under the table.

I figure they're a little too big to get away with that. And I checked with a couple of other freelancers, and they received 1099s. So now I'm feeling like I'm invisible. I started pretty late in the year, so maybe I just slipped through the cracks. Odd.

I feel like a pain in the ass asking about it, though. I know that's ridiculous, that I need to follow up on these things and I'm not deliberately trying to cause more work for my boss, but I still feel like a pain.