Wrap up of Week 2: Neal Gillis

Hello.

Well, week two went quite well. Kristi and I met with three people, all leading to co-op incorporation (hopefully). We had a few challenges this week. Personally, my greatest challenge was putting up with Kristi and her post wisdom teeth woes. Nice girl, but a little o-d-d when she gets on the meds.

An other challenge was the unfortunate payroll epidemic, which resulted in us mailing out paycheques. I apologize for any inconveinience this may have caused for people. ADP payroll service hasn't made contact with us (as they said they would), so we're not entirely sure how things will happen. I would really like to get direct deposit set up, and I know everyone else feels the same.

As David mentioned in the teleconference, we will hopefully be getting our own office space within the next week. David's office for 1 1/2 people doesn't jive with 3 of us in the room. And the bathroom smells like death (it's not David's fault, no human body could produce such an odor). We have been able to stay fairly productive nevertheless, between home, the office, and the internet cafe down the street.

Thats all for now. Hope everyone else is a-okay. Talk to you soon.

-Neal

Invoices

Friendly reminder to all of you out there in MYDAS land, send in your travel and communications invoices if you have not done so already. Thanks.

Payroll Update

UPDATE: No one (except for Neal) is getting paid this week, or for the rest of the program. Sorry for the late notice, and thank you for your understanding.


Seriously: David, Kristi, and myself went to the Credit Union to get the direct deposit set up this morning. It seems that it's not going to be as easy as anticipated. We can't set up to simply transfer money from the MYDAS account into the intern's. We may have to go through an outsourcing firm (ADP, as advised by the Credit Union), but after calling their head office today, we found out that we'll have to wait for their representative to contact us. No fun. Also, we may have to set it up where you will each have to go to your bank and request that they debit the MYDAS account into yours each pay period for X number of dollars. Not entirely sure how this works.

This means that this week's paycheques will have to be mailed out. I'm sorry to inform you of this. We are working on them right now and hopefully they should be in today's mail. If anyone would like to have them sent to a different address, please let me or David know ASAP.

PowerPoint posted

Check out "The Power of Co-operation" slideshow posted in the documents section of the blog. It's an awesome resource.

(Just right click on the link and click "save target as")

WEEK 2: Neal Gillis

Word up,

As Kristi mentioned, she and I have a busy week ahead of us. We're going to have 4 or 5 meetings within the next few days to discuss upcoming co-operative ideas. We had a meeting with Godfrey (the same Godfrey who came to talk at the orientation) this morning about a student co-op that would work much like a student society. It's a pretty hot lead, and I think we'll be incorporating our first co-op before too long!

Goals for the week will include attending those meetings and figuring out the direct deposit situation with David and Kristi. Also, we're still nailing down details for the summer (mainly with education sessions we want to hold). I'd also like to do a little more reading and reseach on PEI's co-op laws, so I can be a co-op pro.

Hope all is well with everyone else. Take care!