But wait, there’s more…

Sheesh.

Okay, so I am now working for the government. And we all now this couldn’t possibly just go smoothly…

First – the project I was hired to work on is cancelled. Well not cancelled *exactly*, just relocated to another team. So the end of my first week I went to a “you’re fired, you’re all fired!!” meeting.

No it wasn’t really like that.

There are still jobs for everyone. They were just announcing the end of the project, and letting everyone know that they will be moved to other projects (if they are interested in keeping their jobs). Which means that everyone now gets interviewed again in order to be slotted into the new projects.

Fine.

But I still don’t have my contract. Which leads me to…

Second – I found out today that I have two choices in order for the vendor of record (this is even more complicated, I’ll just brush past it) to pay me. I can become incorporated, or I can become a sole proprietor. In either case, I gotta become a company.

To do this I have to go down to the ‘Companies and Personal Property Security Branch Public Office’ and register Me as a business ($80). Once I get that all sorted out, I can finish up my contract with the vendor, with them paying me as a business.

But wait, there’s more. In order for the vendor to pay me, they will be issuing my cheques to my new “business”. And we all know that you can’t just take a cheque issued to a company and stick’er straight in your account.

This means that I have to set up a small business account to deposit my cheques to. Then I can pay myself.

AND even once I get this all sorted out, the earliest I will see a cheque is… oh, the end of April.

Smashing.