Employee of The Month

On Friday my supervisor announced to me that I have been chosen as Employee of the month for January.  I was a bit shocked by it, to be honest.  I honestly don’t feel as though I deserve it considering I’m still in the training process but I’ve been thinking about it lately and I have to say that I finally do believe that I actually do deserve it.

For the past month I’ve been coming in early to cover absences for other employees.  I don’t usually leave until well after I’m supposed to because there’s numerous files to status and make follow-up calls on and I’ve worked on a few different claims in the past month that have caused nothing but problems thanks to incomplete information and I’ve managed to actually get in touch with owners who typically wouldn’t answer their phone in order to get the information we need.

On top of my actual job of handling all of the emails that come in to the company (I’m the master email account for claims, statuses, assignment updates, cancellations – etc.) I’m in the process of learning how to assign claims to appraisers, what key terms to look for (photos only, heavy equipment, invalid phone numbers, etc.).  I also send all of the digital files to the appraisers for certain insurance companies, that’s probably the most time consuming thing considering there’s typically 2 files for every one assignment (hard copy & digital copy) and each digital one not only needs to be emailed to an appraiser, it also needs to be downloaded and added to the server individually from the website.  So naturally the work load is a bit overwhelming to me right now, but taking it day by day I’m picking up on things a lot quicker than I thought I was going to and I’m very happy with the turn out.

The upside would be that I get a plaque for my desk so I can have it as a constant reminder that I did actually work my ass off and have been since I started the position.  The only downside to being employee of the month is they no longer put a $200 bonus in your paycheck.  You’re just given a free day off where you’re punched in in the morning and then punched out at night.  I just need to give a little bit of notice before I decide which day I’d like to take off.  I would like to take a three day weekend and maybe head down to Atlantic City since I haven’t been there in over a year and I’d really like to get away.  Unfortunately I also need to deal with the NY DMV considering my liscence needs to be changed so I don’t get screwed on my taxes next year.  So it’s a toss up on which one I’d like to do first.  I’m actually thinking of just taking care of the DMV stuff on my way out of town and then heading down to AC right after.  The only problem is I won’t have any photo identification on me because NY sends your liscence in the mail, they don’t print out right then and there the way DE does.  So  yea, that’s the downside.