Jessaca's blog: "My Life, My World"

Just so everyone is on the same page. . .

I am no longer working, I was fired today.  I was a contractor employee with Aerotek working at Unisys.  Well my first paycheck came on a Friday afternoon and I could not get to the bank until Saturday morning.  When I got to the bank the girl gave me a hard time because Aerotek put my full name that I do not use, and I do not like to talk about, on the check.  I told the ladies at Aerotek about it and they told me that there is nothing they can do because of some I-9 Compliance thing saying they have to use the name on my Social Security card.  Well I have worked for 6 other companies, not counting Aerotek, and none of them used the name on my Social Security card they always just used the name I asked them to use.  And you have to think the one company I worked for Discover Financial Services, they would have to follow all the rules and what not because when I started with them they were under the Morgan Stanley umbrella.  So I get fired because my credit union, or the little girl working at the credit union, does not like to take checks with a different name then that they have on their records.  I don't get it.

Another thing that really bugs me, all my unemployment stuff, even my W-2 from them last year, doesn't say one thing about this other name.  If the State of Utah doesn't have to follow this so called I-9 Compliance rule, why does Aerotek have???

I was always annoyed because when Aerotek sent my information over to Unisys some how my first name was spelled wrong so it was a stop and think and remember that there is now an “i” in my name.  I will miss the guys at Unisys, but it is my name and I do not get offend about anything other then my name being spelled wrong.

Give me a few days and I will go into the whole sadness of not being at Unisys and seeing the guys and hearing about WOW and StarCraft.  But for now I'm beyond pissed off.