Okay, I'm going to start with the good.
Work was good today. I stayed very busy the whole day, and a vendor bought pizza for all of us. Free food. 
If you remember, I lost my TollTag sometime between Dec 24 when driving to my mom's and Jan 6, driving back home. I had the feeling that it would be okay for me to continue to go through the Toll Tag area, even though my tag wasn't on my windshield. I had found my tag on the floor of my car a number of times before *after* getting to work, and had never received any violations.
However, Tuesday night my mom made me worried that maybe I had been wracking up violation fines. So, W, TH, and Fri I went through the pay booths. Ugh.
Tonight I stopped at the Toll Tag office on my way home from working at the gym. I explained the situation, and was told that I was right. Since my license plate is registered to my Toll Tag, it automatically goes against my account - no violation fines. Whew!
I had to pay a $25 fee (can be refunded if I find my tag) to deactivate my old tag since I didn't have it to turn in. Thankfully they have gone to a new type of Toll Tag that is similar to the car registration/inspection stickers which stick to the inside of your windshield. I guess enough people complained about how often their tags fell off that they changed the design! 
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I was looking at my stats today for my today.com blog. It shows you what websites your unique visits are coming from, and if any of your posts are showing up in Google searches.
Guess what? I had TWO unique visits from a Google search which gave them my post on
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Unfortunately my day turned less great when I got home and checked the mail. In the mail there was a letter from Chase telling me that my last gym paycheck had been returned for NSF.
That by itself really made me annoyed.
But, it's worse. By the 13th, I figured the check had cleared and it was safe to go ahead and move it, plus some other money to ING. So, I scheduled two withdrawals for the 14th. There would be about $20 left in my account after the two withdrawals.
The check bounced on the 13th. (Must have been after I checked my balance.) The first transaction went through fine. However, there was only $88 left in the account when the 2nd transaction of $100.00 went through.
So, in one day's time, due to one bounced check, my Chase account is now in the negative.
This is the second time I had a gym paycheck bounce. The first time it *only* cost me a $10 NSF fee, which was eventually refunded by E. (It took until the next payday to get the bounced check + fee refunded though!) This time however has cost me $35 in NSF fees and caused my account to go negative.
I was NOT a happy camper.
I sent E a screen shot of my bank account page showing the numbers so he' have "proof" of the numbers. I also told him that I wanted to have the full $82.xx in CASH by no later than Wednesday so that I can bring my account back in the positive.
I also told him that I had lost any confidence I had in him telling me the truth when he says 'the money is there to cover it.' From this point on, I will be calling their bank to see if the money is actually there to cover it.
I was pretty close to telling him that I had had enough - to find someone else for the job. But then I got to thinking about the average $150/mo (including the cost of free membership) that I'd be losing . . and bit my tongue enough to give him a chance and see what he'll do.
I vented my frustrations in as positive a manner as I could by writing about how the Economy is Hurting Gyms .
January 17th, 2009 at 05:36 pm 1232213795
January 17th, 2009 at 05:42 pm 1232214149
DH just joined a gym for $99 for the year. Not sure how they do it really!
January 17th, 2009 at 08:00 pm 1232222442
Thanks! If this was the first time this had happened, or I didn't know that other employees who work there also have had this happen to them, I wouldn't be quite so upset. The old saying of 'Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."
dmontngrey,
Thanks for letting me know that! I usually check my links to see that they're working - guess I missed this one! Ack!
I know - I don't know how they do it either. Before writing this post, I had never really done the math - and I was just calculating payroll for 10 people. Larger gyms with many more people -- yikes!