Hi Everyone,

Hope your week is going well and that you are enjoying this sun-shiny day!
Here’s what we have for you this week:

• As of tomorrow, February 1st, new employee password: AllYouNeedIsLove2018!

• PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE all salary employees put your designated vacation week in PAYCHEX ASAP – This is extremely important as we do not want to approve additional people off during that time and leave programs without support. It is absolutely necessary that you do this by the end of the week.

• Hello all hourly employees the use of the Time Tracker form to submit hours to be paid off from will be discontinued as of the next pay period, beginning 2.9.18. There have been too many errors of incorrect recording as most people are not using them in Real Time; rather filling them out at the end of the pay period which is not okay. Paychex and the use of Time and Attendance change forms will be the only documents we will be accepting for time. If you have a situation in which you can not use Paychex and the time and attendance forms for recording your time, please see your PSI and they will assist you in finding a solution.

• Forms 1095-C are now available.  This is a form, from Paychex, that had assit you in completing questions about health coverage on your 2017 peronal income tax returns.  However, you do not need to submit the form to the IRS when filing your tax returns.  Please stop by and pick yours up at the Business/HR office.

• Please remember to enter your mileage for January by the end of the day tomorrow.  Mileage will be locked by noon on Friday, Feb. 2nd.

•  FROM I.T.:

  "URGENT EMAIL NOTICE: We are upgrading our email servers tonight to 
  improve performance, reduce spam, and meet the growing storage needs of 
  the company. What does this mean for you? Your mobile devices and 
  computers using Thunderbird will NOT be able to send or receive email 
  until you update to the new settings. IT can assist you with this. 
  However, if you're comfortable making the changes yourself, the new 
  email settings (IMAP/SMTP or Incoming/Outgoing) will be posted at the 
  top of the sdemployees.com login homepage and on the sdemployees.com 
  email page. For immediate email access, visit www.sdemployees.com and 
  click on the 'Check My Email' button on the homepage. Please email IT at 
  it.dept@sdplus.us if you need assistance (or text us at 802-323-4851) 
  after email goes down. We will not know the new settings until the 
  switch takes place tonight between 5:00 and 10:00 PM."

• COME CHEER ON THE SD FROST AND FURIOUS PENGUIN PLUNGE TEAM!!! Head down to the waterfront on Saturday, Feb. 3rd around 12:00 and watch them jump by 12:30.  We would love to have a great cheering squad and then we can all celebrate downtown afterward.  Can’t cheer on the team but still want to participate…you can still donate.  Our team is currently in 15th place, help keep us there or move us up by donating at https://give.specialolympicsvermont.org/team/147596. Thank you!

Here’s a clip of last year’s team jumping in the water! ;-) 

https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-mozilla-002&hsimp=yhs-002&hspart=mozilla&p=you+tube+video+of+penguins+diving#id=19&vid=968f105014a5de236af7ce08a931c2c6&action=view

Have a great rest of your week!
Thanks for all you do!
Smiles,
Lesha