I think it’s Americans who love free speech that hate him. I mean, I don’t even use Twitter, and he’s tickin’ me off!
I do use Facebook. I feel kind of the same bittersweetness (?) over it as folks who use Twitter feel about it. I mean, I sometimes feel guilty about using it, but it’s working for me and I keep out the nastiness and I’ve made lasting contacts with some super-cool people that I wouldn’t know otherwise. You know?
Usually, Twitter staff are paid on the 28th of every month.
I have been paid semi-monthly, bi-weekly, and weekly. I’ve never been paid monthly. Is that normal in some places?
A personal story: One of the issues that I experienced while working for a company that eventually went bankrupt was that paychecks started failing to deposit. First, they stopped allowing direct deposit, instead providing paper checks that would need to be taken to the bank to deposit. What was actually happening was that the company was writing checks for more than was in their account. This created a race condition where the employees who deposited their checks first got paid, with those past a certain threshold not being paid. I was caught on the wrong end of one of those thresholds one time, which caused my mortgage payment to overdraft and possibly others, if memory serves. My bank covered the overage, and my employer eventually paid me. There were no other instances of unpaid salary, but I deposited my check as quickly as possible after that. It didn’t much matter, as the company completely folded shortly afterward. My point is this: If you are working for a company that isn’t able to pay its bills, especially salary, that’s the sign of an unhealthy company. If you have the means to leave in those circumstances, do so.
First there were too many bots on Twitter. Now it seems like there are too many bots at Twitter.
Since money = speech, free speech = free money, right?
I’m pretty sure that every place I’ve worked at since high school has paid monthly. At a minimum, the most recent jobs I’ve worked at, have (disclaimer: those have been as salary positions, not hourly wages… which generally means you get to work overtime hours without overtime pay, whee!).
I’ve seen this happen from the outside before. Definitely a good idea to get an exit strategy in line if the company starts making it more difficult to get the money that’s owed, though it is a really crappy place to be in.
I did not know that this was a thing. How does that work for the first paycheck? In my experience, it’s fairly common to be paid not for the most recent pay period, but the previous one, so there is an extra period before you receive your first check. So for a bi-weekly pay schedule, you receive your first check on week four. For a monthly pay schedule, that would mean that you would receive your first check after working for two months. That seems like an awfully long time to wait to be paid.
Most of the developed world outside of the U.S., if I understand correctly. They think it’s weird that we get paid weekly or twice a month.
Oof. And hoo-boy.
One of my former employers once came out and announced that he’d screwed up payroll but no worries, we’ll just double it up next month. To an entire office full of people that lived paycheck-to-paycheck. And when faced with the inevitable backlash said “Well you don’t really need pay every month, do you?” (This was a guy who’d just buy a new BMW whenever his broke down because he didn’t want to wait for it to be fixed.)
Then, a later incident, was me running down the stairs and catching him in the parking lot, just after 5pm on a Friday, on a motorcycle, having already put his helmet on, to make him sign my paycheck (because he had ‘forgotten to do that’). I was one of the only two people who got paid that month. The other guy was not from the U.S. and had a really serious work contract - something that apparently is normal in other countries, so he’d insisted upon when coming to the U.S. (Everyone else had direct deposit.)
Yeah, if there’s ever any uncertainty about payment, it’s time to GTFO. In the meantime, having an actual paper check signed by the CEO, Flintstones as it may sound, is a step above direct deposit.
On the monthly schedule I think it’s usually been that it starts at the first pay period, since you’ve lasted through an entire month. Often it’ll take one or two periods before things like direct deposit will kick in.
I just found that Darius Emmanuel Grouch III is on Twitter.
He’s a character on Money Plane.
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It’s funny, but the more I think about it, you could probably create a new, open, Cybiko like device with something like an ESP32 and LoRa.
So I guess Twitter still has some limits.
Also on Thursday, during an interview with US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and with his face covered in a mask, West praised Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and ranted about sin, pornography and the devil.
Well Isn’t that classic Elmo. Started out saying he was going to do the right thing, then fucked it up just because he could. Sheesh.
I can’t wait to see what happens when the C-suite folks start filing their suits, if it hasn’t already happened. It’ll probably cost him less money than paying out to the individual employees will, but it’ll be peak media, since millions of dollars are involved. Unless he settles, plus an NDA, which is a distinct possibility. He likes to do that.
At least he’s being warned about December 7th.
Canada, too - weekly/biweekly/semi-monthly, in arrears, is the norm.
I’ve been some form of contractor most of my life, sometimes in addition to a salaried position, sometimes not. Tech contracts in my experience are almost always monthly, and they’re usually treated like other monthly payments (for infrastructure /services/etc), meaning it was quite normal for the day I’d actually get paid to widely vary depending on what the finance team was dealing with that month.
When a contract was my sole source of income, knowing you would get paid “sometime in the next 30 days” really sucked from a financial stability standpoint.
Ugh, yes, I hated contracting. They could just say “well we do net+90” and that means 3 months until you get your paycheck - if you’re lucky and it doesn’t get lost somewhere between the department you’re working for and finance and accounts payable. Which it usually does, so expect a lot of hours on the phone arguing with people who didn’t know what other people were doing, and at least another month to collect.
I tried insisting on a “50% up front and 50% on delivery” contract with one company and as much as they wanted me, they had to say no, because that just wasn’t how they did their contracts. I dodged a bullet with that one.
The ideal of living a contractor life still sounds good, but the reality of spending more time and effort chasing your paycheck than actually doing the work - that just sucks.
“Hardcore” is just as miserable as imagined.
To be fair, I’ve seen co-workers in situations I’d see as worse… but that wasn’t at a multi-billion-dollar companies.
I’ve had to overnight at work a few times, but it’s mostly been either due to emergencies where lots of hands were needed over a long period, or simply due to weather making it impossible for me to leave or the next shift to come in. Actually going to the trouble of setting up bedrooms and expecting staff to do that kind of thing regularly would have had me running for the hills, especially in a company where most of the work is likely the boring maintenance and upkeep of the backend…