It was chilly today - in the 40s - but I persevered and rode my bike in to work. I was in meetings as soon as I arrived, and for most of the day. I have a great temporary office on a corner - my office is currently a bunch of metal studs. Looks like a jail cell. And oddly, the only door opens to a conference room they're building - so I'll have to walk through the conference room to get in and out. I guess I'll stay away from diuretics.
I have a lot of reading to do; I have to prepare a plan for my group, I have to bone up on some hot projects ASAP and I have to do work plans with my staff. The benefits stuff is dizzying: they have a "cafeteria style" where you select the benefits you want. That sounds great; the hard part is a complicated formula to determine how much the university is paying towards the benefits you choose. Oh, and apparently there will be NO funds added to social security as part of my employment at CSU. The money CSU contributes towards retirement is in lieu of social security contributions. That's a new one for me ... and it does affect my evaluation of my compensation package - harumph.
Well, settling in is always a little bumpy. On the plus side, I think I can just about find my office in the building regardless of which staircase I use.
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"NO funds added to social security as part of my employment at CSU. The money CSU contributes towards retirement is in lieu of social security contributions."
That doesn't seem legal to me. I thought everyone is covered by Social Security (which is why I get to pay both halves as "self-employed".
Well, I had the HR person explain it to me three times. Must be a loophole.
Man, when I got to Cornell dealing with the benefits was just dizzying. Good luck with that!
(It was even worse in Germany, the capital of bureaucracy - had to choose one of *50* health plans in 5 days, with little to no public information about their differences. It reminded me of that "Voice your Choice" b*ll that NYSEG has been selling us.)
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