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Meet Joyce Gartrell!
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Meet Joyce Gartrell!
Staff Accountant-Payroll
Finance Department
What are the primary responsibilities of your job?
 My job involves overseeing all the aspects of payroll for the APTA staff and everything that goes with it.
I have to keep track of time cards, make sure they’re entered properly and approved by each employee’s supervisor. I am also responsible for completing payroll journal entries on a monthly basis. |
Do you have direct contact with APTA members? If so, please talk about the two most recent times you’ve helped out a member.
Now that I work in payroll, I don’t have direct contact with the membership. Earlier when I worked in accounts receivable, I went to APTA meetings and worked at the registration desk.
I used to say that going to meetings was like a vacation because it gave me a chance to do something different from my day-to-day job. I enjoyed working registration because it gave me an opportunity to meet and help members face-to-face.
What initiatives, projects or programs have you worked on at APTA that you have taken particular pride in completing?
I’m proud of my work in converting the APTA payroll process from paper time cards to electronic cards. Also, a few years ago APTA overhauled its annual leave and sick leave program, converting to a paid time off system. The change was very time-consuming; I had to make sure each employee’s leave was updated correctly.
How did you “land” at APTA? How long have you worked here?
I’ve been with APTA for 21 years. I was looking for a better job than the one I had and I saw a newspaper ad for the position at APTA. I’ve worked in accounting-related jobs with a variety of companies and organizations since I graduated from high school.
Could you tell us something about yourself that might surprise us?
I have two children, seven grandchildren and I’m a great-grandmother twice—a third will be born in January.
I have a sizable commute each day. When I joined APTA, I lived in Crofton, Maryland, and took MARC commuter rail to work. I was one of several people who looked after a colony of feral cats near the train station, but the colony dissolved over time.
Now I live in Kent Island, Maryland, on the eastern side of the Chesapeake Bay, and I commute by express bus.
It’s a 50-mile trip each way and takes about an hour and 10 minutes in the morning. The trip home takes longer, from an hour and 20 minutes to two hours. I think that’s because of how the traffic patterns differ through the day. People traveling into D.C. leave at different times in the morning but the afternoon rush hour is always rush hour.
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