Our Two Week Visit - The Job

The Job
Texas Municipalities League Intergovernmental Employee Benefit Pool, or TML IEBP for short, is the name of my company. We provide Texas government agencies, municipalities, and school districts with employee benefits such as medical, dental, flex, IRA's, etc.

My main role there is to support our online enrollment system that employers and employees use to sign up for these benefits. For those techies that are interested, we are using the LAMP model (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP 4.x). My plan is to upgrade some of these systems but right now we are just working on a back log of projects and issues that have come up since the other guy left.

Great company to work for. They pay 100% of my benefits (I have to pay for the family though), 6.2% into an IRA, $60 a month into a Healthcare Flex account, and instead of Social Security we pay like 6% into what is called the TMRS (Tx Municipal Retirement system). Is basically like social security. But the good thing is that if I work there for 5+ years they will match 2:1 when I retire. Lets see...after 3 years they start paying you $100 per year on your anniversary. So on my 3 year anniversary I get an extra $300. If im there for 10 years I get an extra $1,000. And most people have been there for a long time. 10+ years. Oh...and we also have this healthy initiative thing. Every quarter you get points for doing healthy things. For example: 2 points for every mile you jog/walk, or .5 points if you drink 48 oz of water that day, or even .5 point for flossing your teeth! If you have 200+ points for the quarter they give you $100! So thats pretty nice.

As for the people...they are great. Everyone is very nice and my department is a great group too. Oh, and I have a window cube.