You can clock in and do email at home but not on the bus? That sick time lunch time thing makes no sense. The lurkers do not support this timekeeping system in email, Sophia's employers!

Well, we will see about the home thing. Since I can work from home flexibly, I thought I would give it a try. It seems like a better sell if I get asked about it. I think my boss is OK with whatever I do, but she can't come out and say it with the literature I was given by HR.

Huh. My work does this gym subsidy thing where you document you have visited your gym 25 times in a quarter and they give you $100 (or what you paid for the gym if it was less than $100, at least that's what they used to say) and they just announced that now these reimbursements will be in the form of an Amazon gift card, not checks or direct deposit like they have always been. Weird! And somehow makes me less motivated to do it.

reimbursements will be in the form of an Amazon gift card, not checks or direct deposit

They may be playing accounting/withholding/reporting games.

It's worthwhile to get confirmation whether the reimbursements are getting included in your W-2 income or not, because that affects both the withholding amount and whether you have to report the reimbursement separately on your tax return.

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They were treated as reimbursed expenses rather than compensation previously. And maybe that was technically wrong? I mean, for my purposes it doesn't make much difference (especially since I haven't actually been getting the subsidy, though who knows maybe this quarter I will manage it) as if my cat food subscription comes off a gift card instead of out of my checking account that's $100 more in my checking account, right? Feels less like I am getting some of the money I spent on my gym membership back and more like I'm being bribed to go the gym, though. And now that I've written that out maybe that is too subtle a difference to actually even exist.

Sorry about the hassle Sophia. Sounds like a pain.

Tonight I need to walk the dogs, go to the Pharmacy, move our new dryer from the garage to the basement and install it, do laundry, add salt to the water softener, replace the furnace filter, cook dinner, and do dishes. Not sure I can make it all happen.

Really need to do some shoveling too. Oh and bring in the mail and put out the garbage and recycling.

May have to work late too.

I'm tired.

That sounds like a lot, Gud. I'm tired just reading it