Jeff's Employer

Well, it's finally official! Jeff found out several weeks ago that as of August 1st the operators will be back working for Raytheon. Jeff officially got his offer letter today via email.

Raytheon decided not to renew the contract with SA-Tech which is great news. It's hard to work for a company when your boss works for another company. The best thing out of this is that Jeff will go back to his old schedule of two weekends off a month. Yah! Right now Jeff only has one weekend off a month so it makes it pretty tough to plan any vacations around that one weekend off. The benefits with Raytheon are better, he never liked the benefits with SA-Tech. The HR department plan on coming on the 29th and 30th to go over the benefits. They will also be bringing back the DTSA program which Jeff had qualified for when he worked for Raytheon before so now when there is a DTS out Jeff can fill in.

The bad thing about this move is that he loses his vacation just like when he went from Raytheon to SA-Tech. SA-Tech will pay him for the remaining vacation hours he has left but he won't have any vacation hours on the books with Raytheon till February 2014. So when he takes vacation after August 1st till then he will have to take it without pay. So when SA-Tech pays him for his remaining vacation we will have to put it aside so we can use when he actually takes vacation. Of course, this year we are going to Illinois for Christmas so he will be taking some vacation without pay then. It's such a pain. I wish they could just transfer his hours over.

Now comes the fun part of filling out all the paperwork again, drug test, background check, security clearance and orientation.