So my official postdoc offer letter came in today. And they low-balled my salary. Basically offered me the base salary for my employment category when they could go as high as +25%. I called the division leader at N-1 and he was pissed because HR hadn't contacted him before making the offer, so he couldn't get his input in. There will be some renegotiation, so we'll see.
In other news, my advisor is still jerking me around on something pointless in my thesis and, imho, wasting a lot of my very limited time. And my dad is still in the hospital. When is the plague of locusts scheduled to start? Because right now it wouldn't surprise me.
Mouser- It isn't too late to bargain, baby. HR can make up a new letter although they will complain about it - you are paying all that money of overhead USE IT. Get your new group to up it to +10% (the most I've seen other than Oppenheimer fellows and the like).