I very much doubt it. “Every part of the company forgot I existed except for the payroll server” is a popular urban legend - the experience of being “forgotten by the algorithm” is ubiquitous in modern life, it’s fun to fantasize about that phenomenon giving us a major windfall that offsets all the minor inconveniences it has caused us - but anyone who’s worked in or near the payroll department knows this just doesn’t happen. If you haven’t seen how that particular sausage is made, it might surprise you. Generally speaking, the default state of your salary payment is “denied”, and it has to be actively approved by a manager, supervisor, or some other real person at your company.
I make $156,000 a year at Twitter and have done nothing
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#22This is a copy pasta, it’s literally word for word the same as the classic one
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#23I very much doubt it. “Every part of the company forgot I existed except for the payroll server” is a popular urban legend - the experience of being “forgotten by the algorithm” is ubiquitous in modern life, it’s fun to fantasize about that phenomenon giving us a major windfall that offsets all the minor inconveniences it has caused us - but anyone who’s worked in or near the payroll department knows this just doesn’…
What? No. This is not how salaried payroll worked in … 8 companies over 20+ years, 10 of them in people management.
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#24This guy did nothing and bored then decided to sabotage himself.
This guy is trolling Elon.
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#25I very much doubt it. “Every part of the company forgot I existed except for the payroll server” is a popular urban legend - the experience of being “forgotten by the algorithm” is ubiquitous in modern life, it’s fun to fantasize about that phenomenon giving us a major windfall that offsets all the minor inconveniences it has caused us - but anyone who’s worked in or near the payroll department knows this just doesn’…
What? No. This is not how salaried payroll worked in … 8 companies over 20+ years, 10 of them in people management.
I’m surprised to hear that. Maybe ”denied by default” is a bit too evocative and not clear enough - I mean that if the payroll department stopped coming into work and managers stopped doing their payroll responsibilities, the payments themselves would stop very quickly. In the systems I have used the payments are generated automatically, but someone has to click “Approve” on them for them to actually happen.
My broader point was that these “the company forgot about me but I’m still getting paid” urban legends rest on the belief that there’s essentially a cron job with a list of salary numbers and bank accounts, and every week it automatically transfers the appropriate amount to each account. And that’s not an accurate picture of payroll.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
What? No. This is not how salaried payroll worked in … 8 companies over 20+ years, 10 of them in people management.
I’m surprised to hear that. Maybe ”denied by default” is a bit too evocative and not clear enough - I mean that if the payroll department stopped coming into work and managers stopped doing their payroll responsibilities, the payments themselves would stop very quickly. In the systems I have used the payments are generated automatically, but someone has to click “Approve” on them for them to actually happen. My broad…
Someone will have to approve it, but is it someone who has any clue what work the people getting paid are doing? In many cases, no.
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#28Milton?
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#29If this is true, could he get in legal trouble and be required to pay everything back?
There may be something like a statue of limitation where if Twitter didn't find the error within some period of time they can't claw it back.
If he had a contract and didn't do anything then he breached it.
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#30I applaud him for sending Elon on a goose hunt. Amazing how you can occupy his brain with just a little trolling.
He'd just assign it to someone who works there. Owners of companies don't do everything themselves. Consider that successful people are often excellent at delegation.