I have official completed my first week of work and so far
so good. The first few days was basically me in an office completing compliance and anti-money laundering training: which I was already familiar with
having come from my other banking job.
Funny story though, I was doing some reading in the office on my second
day and my chair kept getting stuck, I thought it was the wheels so I kept
trying and realized it was getting stuck on something under the desk. So I bent down to see what the issue was and there's this little box on the underside of
the desk with a button that is now pressed slightly in. So I go to my managers
office and ask her if, by any chance, a silent alarm in the office
I’m working in, she said there in fact is and I let her know I believe I set it
off by accident. LOL I was so embarrassed! 911 called the branch and even
though we let them know it was an accident they said two RCMP officers were
on their way and have to come check it out just incase. The
officers (aka my husbands co-workers) came and joked that if I wanted to see G
so badly I could have called his cellphone instead, lol. It was so embarrassing
but my manager said she did the same thing about a month previous so not too
worry. Still so embarrassing though! At least everyone had a sense of humour about it.
The one
thing about this new job is instead of every week either G or I getting
paid, we are now on the same bi-weekly schedule. That just means a bit more
planning and watching things closer to make sure we have enough to last
us the two weeks. I’m not too worried about it but this month kind of sucks
because I missed this pay week but the next round of pay I will get three weeks
instead of two – which will be nice.
Other money
news: we fully funded our $5000 Emergency Fund last week! We are still keeping
our automatic transfer but now any extra money and interest accumulated will go
to paying off our car. G hasn’t called the bank to see how we can set this up
but we won’t until we get a couple thousand accumulated to put as one lump sum.
Also, we moved our vacation savings to Tangerine. There’s $1400 in there right
now. We don’t have any automatic payments set up at the moment but I hope once
the LOC is paid off (that’s sitting at $2700) we can start adding more on a
regular basis – I want to go on some nice vacations & G definitely deserves
one.
- M
