Internet Pay Stubs

Something new has started. Every other Tuesday, a few minutes past midnight, I get an e-mail from Hawaii. It's from the payroll department telling me that I can view my new pay stub on the Internet. The paper pay stubs used to come from Pasadena. (Why did payroll get to go to Hawaii and I didn't?)

This is my employer's way of saving money. They don't want to go to all of the expense of actually giving us a paper copy of our pay stub, so they just post it on the Internet instead. I'm fine with it being available on the net, but I also want a paper copy. Yes, I know I could print my own copy if my printer was working, but I like getting the little blue, folded piece of paper at work. I like the process of having it handed to me. It's tradition. It feels good.

Since many of the nurses can't navigate the Internet, I'll probably have to help them see their records and print copies for them at work. They could have jumped through the same hoops I did to still get a blue paper copy, but now the deadline has passed.

It's old-fashioned, but I'm still going to get my little blue copy. I'm getting nagging e-mails asking me to cancel my request and I'm feeling a little guilty, but I don't think it's too much to ask to be handed a little piece of paper. Somehow, it just doesn't feel like I have been paid unless I'm handed something.