We're in the money...
May. 21st, 2003 03:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
robotech_masterYesterday I received a welcome, if unexpected surprise at work.
One of the things that MCI employees get as part of the job is a debit card, called the "MCI Rewards" card, and whenever you do something good that falls outside the sales/quality incentive packages that add onto your salary, they put some money on your card. (They take 42% of it off your next paycheck for tax purposes, but oh well.)
So yesterday, one of my coworkers asked me if I'd checked my card's balance lately. I said, "Oh, I don't have anything on it," but they insisted, saying that some money had been put on recently, and I might have gotten some. Apparently they don't always actually tell you when they make a deposit. So I checked, and darn if I didn't have a balance of $110 on the card! (Which works out to a hair under $64 that I actually have extra, but still, free money is free money.) $10 for the 85 call score, $50 for something last month (some sort of contest win, I think) and $50 for some sort of high ranking in the agent list this month. Not bad at all.
A lot of my co-workers regard anything on the card as "mad money," a bonus outside of what they're paid normally that they can spend on something nice for themselves. Regarding this as an eminently sensible policy, I have adopted it for myself...so I've just sent off for a Kamen Rider Agito DVD set I've been eyeing for some time but never quite allowed myself to spend the money. I look forward to receiving it sometime next week.
In other news, I watched the season finale of 24 this morning. Wow. I had been expecting it to be a bit of a letdown, but it actually turned out pretty well, all things considered. I was a bit peeved at one minor aspect of it, but all things considered, it did a bang-up job of closing out the season. Now I'm looking forward to the next twenty-four episodes.
And in still other news, I'm working on banging out a storyline for my next Superguy story arc. It'll be nice to get some episodes written again. The inspiration is starting to come, and I'm following where it leads.
One of the things that MCI employees get as part of the job is a debit card, called the "MCI Rewards" card, and whenever you do something good that falls outside the sales/quality incentive packages that add onto your salary, they put some money on your card. (They take 42% of it off your next paycheck for tax purposes, but oh well.)
So yesterday, one of my coworkers asked me if I'd checked my card's balance lately. I said, "Oh, I don't have anything on it," but they insisted, saying that some money had been put on recently, and I might have gotten some. Apparently they don't always actually tell you when they make a deposit. So I checked, and darn if I didn't have a balance of $110 on the card! (Which works out to a hair under $64 that I actually have extra, but still, free money is free money.) $10 for the 85 call score, $50 for something last month (some sort of contest win, I think) and $50 for some sort of high ranking in the agent list this month. Not bad at all.
A lot of my co-workers regard anything on the card as "mad money," a bonus outside of what they're paid normally that they can spend on something nice for themselves. Regarding this as an eminently sensible policy, I have adopted it for myself...so I've just sent off for a Kamen Rider Agito DVD set I've been eyeing for some time but never quite allowed myself to spend the money. I look forward to receiving it sometime next week.
In other news, I watched the season finale of 24 this morning. Wow. I had been expecting it to be a bit of a letdown, but it actually turned out pretty well, all things considered. I was a bit peeved at one minor aspect of it, but all things considered, it did a bang-up job of closing out the season. Now I'm looking forward to the next twenty-four episodes.
And in still other news, I'm working on banging out a storyline for my next Superguy story arc. It'll be nice to get some episodes written again. The inspiration is starting to come, and I'm following where it leads.
