Retirement Woes

I'm so angry I could spit.

I was told when preparing to retire that all my deductions - health care payments, Deferred Compensation, direct deposit to checking and savings - would all carry over. Except that when I went in to actually do the paperwork I had to fill out a form to deposit my retirement check into my checking account.

With that experience, I wasn't too surprised when I got my quarterly Credit Union statement and saw that there had been no deposits since I retired. I went down to the Credit Union, found out what paper I needed, went to Retirement Systems and got it, went home and had lunch, went back to the Credit Union to have the paper filled out and again to Retirement Systems to deliver the paperwork. They even made a copy for me. With all that done, the receptionist sat down to enter things into the computer.

"I want $500 put in my savings every check."

"Oh, we can't do that."

"Can't do what?"

"Can't split a check."

So, every month, I will have to write a personal check and go down to the Credit Union to deposit it. Argh...