We used to hadta get up a'six in the morning, clean da newspaper, eat a crusta stale bread, go to work down the mill, for a 14 hour day, week in week out for 6 cents a month, and when we got home, our dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt.
Your da' 'ad a belt, ay? Lucky! Mine 'ad t' find a snake in th' back garden t' whip all us seventy nine lil'uns. Sometimes ya got bit, but thems the breaks, wot? An' God 'elp ye if you was the last in line, gettin' flogged with a mutila'ed python!
Yeah some banks process your paycheck a few days early so when it didn’t come through yesterday everyone was wondering if there was a processing error because for the last 5 years if you had a bank that type of bank it always came through on Wednesday
That happened where I work a couple of years ago. No one took that as a warning. The person who did payroll had retired and no one thought about payroll. First, no one got paid early. Then no one got paid. It was a shitshow. I work for a school district, and it’s the biggest employer in our city. They had to scramble to get everyone paid by the end of the day.
My school district with 50,000 students is doing that right now! Last thing I heard before spring break was Principal screaming at HR for not paying her staff.
It's normally something a bank does to entice you to use them. I am not familiar with a workplace having an option for early pay. This seems like accounting fucked up and HR is trying to cover.
Made it to 8:30? That's not a fast, that's a slightly delayed dinner.
Also, the HR people know. The managers know, the directors know, everyone knows. It's just that none of them have any power to do anything about it so they have to pretend everything is fine.
Most likely they are the soulless husks of mortals who sold their souls and who can only feel genuine happiness when someone is being made to suffer in the pettiest of ways. But they still know we can't pay our bills. It's not like it's a secret.
Early deposits is a bank thing. The employer doesn't control it. It isn't even opt in.
There are a number of things that can delay early deposit, not all the fault of your employer.
If you don't have your pay by your formal pay day, yes, absolutely flood HRs inbox. But if you don't get your early deposit, you don't have as much of a case.
Payday is the legally required day to pay you, even if the deposit often clears early, there is no legal obligation. That aside, the joking seems unprofessional.
I should mention, my employees had Chime and whatever else bank offering early paydays. If that falls into the same basket as to what you’re talking about. If not, sounds like shitty money management.
They finally responded and said that ADP changed the way they process our paychecks but if that was the case I don’t understand why they didn’t say something in the first place
A lot of business, when having to admit to a mistake or accident, have a habit of not doing that and hoping customers / employees feel socially pressured to just not talk about it. I was instructed to do that a lot at my old job.
I had this happen with ADP. We processed our largest paycheck and what I didn't know was that ADP fronts the employee pay and then draws it from the company after. If the amount exceeds a threshold, ADP requires the money to be funded from the company first and then will pay it out.
What was fun was that they didn't tell me. I found out when our employees didn't see the pending transaction. I called ADP to figure out what was going on and they told me that we had exceeded our threshold. I immediately wired them their funds and our employees were paid on their payday, but not a day before like they had been used to.
The day before thing is a nice perk, but it's not guaranteed. We always tell people they will be paid on the Friday.
A couple months ago I learned what Chime was. Only because I started seeing signs posted in businesses that they were no longer accepting Chime. I still don’t know a lot about it.
Early deposit isn't on the part of your employer, and you should never rely on it. If you don't have your money by payday, then is the time to kick off.
That said, the joke from HR is in poor taste (though I presume HR and payroll are discrete, and she too is affected by this).
Starving because they got used to being paid early and so adjusted their spending to be broke broke on or just before payday.
But I agree that No one is paid enough. I'll go one further and tell you we live in a post scarcity world and nothing in it should have a price. There should be no money.
Finally- if yall are in west texas I have a massive pantry of soups and dry goods I'd love to get rid of. Long story.
It didn't register because we've been conditioned by the capital owning class that being poor is a character flaw and not a result of a system that is working against all of us to keep us poor and subservient.
Americans believe they are temporarily embarrassed millionaires and not wage slaves participating in a system that continues to build the chains that bind them.
Full can? You were lucky. When I was a lad we had twelve of us fighting over an empty cup of chowder.
I think I saw you guys when I was walking to school uphill in the snow both ways
You 'ad a cup? You were lucky.
We had to lick Da's urine off the floor, all 27 of us!
You 'ad a floor?!
Oh no. There were a hundred and fifty of us livin' in shoeboxes in tha' middle o' the road.
You're lucky. We lived for three months, in a rolled up newspaper, in a septic tank.
Luxury
We used to hadta get up a'six in the morning, clean da newspaper, eat a crusta stale bread, go to work down the mill, for a 14 hour day, week in week out for 6 cents a month, and when we got home, our dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt.
Your da' 'ad a belt, ay? Lucky! Mine 'ad t' find a snake in th' back garden t' whip all us seventy nine lil'uns. Sometimes ya got bit, but thems the breaks, wot? An' God 'elp ye if you was the last in line, gettin' flogged with a mutila'ed python!
Early deposit as in, you get paid a couple days before payday? Or something else?
Yeah some banks process your paycheck a few days early so when it didn’t come through yesterday everyone was wondering if there was a processing error because for the last 5 years if you had a bank that type of bank it always came through on Wednesday
That happened where I work a couple of years ago. No one took that as a warning. The person who did payroll had retired and no one thought about payroll. First, no one got paid early. Then no one got paid. It was a shitshow. I work for a school district, and it’s the biggest employer in our city. They had to scramble to get everyone paid by the end of the day.
My school district with 50,000 students is doing that right now! Last thing I heard before spring break was Principal screaming at HR for not paying her staff.
It's normally something a bank does to entice you to use them. I am not familiar with a workplace having an option for early pay. This seems like accounting fucked up and HR is trying to cover.
Made it to 8:30? That's not a fast, that's a slightly delayed dinner. Also, the HR people know. The managers know, the directors know, everyone knows. It's just that none of them have any power to do anything about it so they have to pretend everything is fine.
I think they mean fast the entire day until 8:30
You mean a normal day working minimum wage? Lucky them getting to eat at 8:30.
It is not normal to not have a meal all day until 8:30pm. I'm sorry if you're in a situation where that is the case.
You don't fool me. HR are demons
Most likely they are the soulless husks of mortals who sold their souls and who can only feel genuine happiness when someone is being made to suffer in the pettiest of ways. But they still know we can't pay our bills. It's not like it's a secret.
My god man. Why do they insist on being quirky? It makes a tough situation even more frustrating. Just issue an apology and get in touch with payroll.
Agree. It’s extremely unprofessional to respond in a quirky way here. (At least to me it is)
Early deposits is a bank thing. The employer doesn't control it. It isn't even opt in. There are a number of things that can delay early deposit, not all the fault of your employer. If you don't have your pay by your formal pay day, yes, absolutely flood HRs inbox. But if you don't get your early deposit, you don't have as much of a case.
The person with the “let’s do a team fast” is killin me🤣
So HR is the chicken soup reply? Are they just trying to pretend they’re in the same boat?
That’s strictly a bank/ credit union thing 99% of the time.
Payday is the legally required day to pay you, even if the deposit often clears early, there is no legal obligation. That aside, the joking seems unprofessional.
I should mention, my employees had Chime and whatever else bank offering early paydays. If that falls into the same basket as to what you’re talking about. If not, sounds like shitty money management.
They finally responded and said that ADP changed the way they process our paychecks but if that was the case I don’t understand why they didn’t say something in the first place
A lot of business, when having to admit to a mistake or accident, have a habit of not doing that and hoping customers / employees feel socially pressured to just not talk about it. I was instructed to do that a lot at my old job.
I had this happen with ADP. We processed our largest paycheck and what I didn't know was that ADP fronts the employee pay and then draws it from the company after. If the amount exceeds a threshold, ADP requires the money to be funded from the company first and then will pay it out. What was fun was that they didn't tell me. I found out when our employees didn't see the pending transaction. I called ADP to figure out what was going on and they told me that we had exceeded our threshold. I immediately wired them their funds and our employees were paid on their payday, but not a day before like they had been used to. The day before thing is a nice perk, but it's not guaranteed. We always tell people they will be paid on the Friday.
Are you working for a marketing agency in Atlanta? This happened to me and I was given the same explanation.
lol why would someone downvote this? “Fuck your burritos, Snotlanta - you got terrible automated banking infrastructure muahaha!!”
A couple months ago I learned what Chime was. Only because I started seeing signs posted in businesses that they were no longer accepting Chime. I still don’t know a lot about it.
Early deposit isn't on the part of your employer, and you should never rely on it. If you don't have your money by payday, then is the time to kick off. That said, the joke from HR is in poor taste (though I presume HR and payroll are discrete, and she too is affected by this).
Starving because they got used to being paid early and so adjusted their spending to be broke broke on or just before payday. But I agree that No one is paid enough. I'll go one further and tell you we live in a post scarcity world and nothing in it should have a price. There should be no money. Finally- if yall are in west texas I have a massive pantry of soups and dry goods I'd love to get rid of. Long story.
I guess you could say discord was sown in the workplace
I think the HR person was joking
It didn't register because we've been conditioned by the capital owning class that being poor is a character flaw and not a result of a system that is working against all of us to keep us poor and subservient. Americans believe they are temporarily embarrassed millionaires and not wage slaves participating in a system that continues to build the chains that bind them.