Hey, Rob, When I started here, we discussed whether it would be better for me to bill directly for on-campus, non-School of Music events or use the internal payments system. We decided it would be more convenient for all concerned to use the internal payment system. Here¹s how it works: Any time I tune for an on-campus, non-SoM event, I take a little form with me. I have attached a copy of that form. When I am finished, I go to the financial officer for the office in question and have them fill out some accounting information (the ³MO Code² and ³PS Account² blanks) and sign. I then take the form back to our financial officer and she generates the payment (that¹s the ³IOF² I have no idea what that stands for). She then adds that onto my paycheck as overtime, with a little bit deducted for benefits and the employer¹s portion of Social Security payments I would have to make anyway if I were doing the billing. It¹s actually pretty simple, since nearly all the events in question are either University Concert Series or Alumni Center events. In three years I think I¹ve had two events that were something else. Of course, the thing that made it work is that this was all preceded by a letter from the Director of the School of Music to all concerned parties explaining how all this was going to work. You need to light a fire under these bozos and do a little educating. Mostly the chair needs to stand up on his hind legs and take care of his people. Maybe a letter from an attorney wouldn¹t be a bad idea. Refusing to do outside work until the matter is resolved might be a good attention-getting device, too. Personally, I wouldn¹t give a furry rat¹s backside if I got labeled a troublemaker if they owed me that much money. But that¹s just me. Good luck, Ken Z. On 8/20/07 2:55 PM, "Rob Goodale" <rrg at unlv.nevada.edu> wrote: > For those full-time university staff techs: > > I have been getting regularly ripped off by the Performing Arts Center hall. > As typical I am responsible for tuning and maintaining pianos for UNIVERSITY > business, (i.e. music department staff/faculty, orchestras, etc). However, > when non-university outside groups come in such as visiting orchestras, high > school competitions, pop bands, etc, I should be getting paid for my services. > These groups are charged for renting the hall, use of the piano, AND a charge > specifically for the tuning. Sometimes I even have to come in on weekends or > late evenings for these events. > > During the last few years there has been virtually a complete turn-over of the > music department personnel. Only a small handful of people are still here > that were present when I arrived 8.5 years ago, including administration. For > all practical purposes it is a completely different school. Over time my > getting paid for outside groups has been slipping through the cracks. I have > been protesting this for some time and the current administration hasn't a > clue how to fix this. The chair says "talk to the department accountant". > The department accountant says "talk to the performing arts hall > administrator". The PFA says "I don't know how to fix this, go talk to the > chair". No one wants to take responsibility for the paperwork to pay me. I > made the suggestion that I check with some other university techs to see what > procedures are used to pay the tech for these kinds of events. They agreed > that would be helpful. Then they would have something to copy and can agree > that it was done correctly. Whatever. > > So... for those university techs in similar arrangements, please tell me the > typical procedure for how you get paid for outside events. At the moment the > hall has been forwarding an annual. (or simi-annual), lump sum for my services > to the music department which goes into the piano maintenance account. Then > it sits there while I protest and not get paid. Last year I discovered > someone stole about $3,000 of it to repair a bassoon!! > > Thanks for your help, > > Rob > -- Ken Zahringer, RPT Piano Technician MU School of Music 297 Fine Arts 882-1202 cell 489-7529 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/20070820/d8b73f32/attachment-0001.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Outside Work.doc Type: application/msword Size: 50688 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/20070820/d8b73f32/attachment-0001.doc
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