Wednesday, 28 February 2007

Payday arrives

Today is payday. Now I thought that I would get my P45 and final payoff today. After all, it’s only three more days! I should have known it wouldn’t be that simple. I was paid until the end of February so I rang Rotterdam to find out when the balance would be paid. At the end of March was the answer. Still, I was able to have a chat with Jeannie the personnel planner. It was great to talk with her without getting a ship! After we’d chatted, she transferred me to payroll. I doubt they have had any British people making it to retirement recently. I explained that the pension administration wait until the final salary before calculating the payments I will receive. They can’t do too much in Rotterdam because I am actually paid through the office of Nedlloyd (Bermuda) Ltd in Gibraltar via P&O (Gibraltar) Ltd. The lines of communication are long to say the least but they promised to inform Gibraltar!

I decided to have a word with the pension administration to let them know the situation. The lady I spoke to was very helpful and promised to get on the case straight away. Pity the stock market took a knock today as well. I could have done with that ISA cashing! I’m sure everything will be sorted eventually but it is the not knowing that gets to me.

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