Open Enrollment Season

[bjarvis]

I've just completed one of the more odd American employer traditions: open enrollment, or the annual selection of one's benefits from a given menu of options.

Like the past few years, this enrollment was nearly trivial to complete: my medical plan and dental plan will both remain unchanged. I could have increased my life insurance benefit but the current $850,000 is already sufficient; I don't want to make it too profitable to have me bumped off. I'm keeping my long term disability policy (pays 66.7% of my gross income) and not participating in the group legal or programs for dependents.

In fact, the only decisions required were for my level of contribution to the health savings plan ($600 should be enough) and purchased vacation (going for the max of 37.5 hours). In all, I'm being docked $166 per pay period for these benefits, although 55% of that is the purchased vacation which will be reimbursed to me next December if unused.

I guess this would be more problematic if I had dependents. Fortunately, my life, needs & wants are as simple and uncomplicated. :-)

Comments

[bootedintexas.livejournal.com]

purchasing vacation is something all new to me. do you recommend it?

[trawnapanda.livejournal.com]

whaddya mean, you don't have dependents?

you "don't want to make it too profitable to have me bumped off", but why would kent4str or cuyahogarvr want to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs?

cuyahogarvr will be under your roof really soon. then YOU get to become Breadwinner-In-Chief, and your two dependents will spend the time lounging about the house in the butch equivalent of negligees and marabou mules, and eating bon-bons. So look sharp! you've got three mouths to feed! (maybe a second job?) keep laying dem golden eggs!