Paperwork - direct deposit
It's been a few days since I've posted new hire stuff.
The new hire packet that I received included instructions for setting up direct deposit. The process seems a little strange; I think it's a throwback to the earlier days of Sun.
You start the direct deposit process by running an old Solaris application called GALAXY. It looks to me like it was written in Motif.
The first thing you have to do is change your initial password. You can't logon before you do. Done. Easy.
Then I started looking around the app. It has a pretty typical design; navbar on the left, body text on the right. I looked at every option. No direct deposit. In fact, I couldn't find any function in the app that hadn't been migrated to a newer web-based tool.
I called the HR hotline and asked for help. They mentioned the direct deposit tool had been moved to... you guessed it... a web-based tool. https://paycheck.central.sun.com/paycheck/login.html. Sun-internal, mind you... fire up your VPN first.
Also, you can't log into this tool until after you've received your first paycheck.
This is one of those rare things you actually need to go to the office to take care of. I asked the HR hotline person if it's possible to change your initial password without using the legacy GALAXY app. Nope, no dice. I suspect the initial password change functionality will be migrated to a web-based tool soon as well, but right now you're stuck.
An SE friend of mine told me about a tool called Punchin. This lets you VPN your Solaris box into... I want to say the SWAN, but I'm not sure about that. GALAXY might work remotely this way, but I haven't had a chance to test that.
