I make $156,000 a year at Twitter and have done nothing • Hacker News Board

Re: I make $156,000 a year at Twitter and have done nothing

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Post by tayo42 » Thu, Mar 09, 2023, 4:36 PM UTC

Rzor wrote: post #6

tayo42 wrote: post #2

You couldn't just shut up? This is internet addiction, you need attention from strangers so badly you couldn't just shut up about 150k your receiving for doing nothing.

Some people are claiming this is a "joke account", likely to be just an attempt at trolling Elon.

I hope it is lol. Maybe its a little sad that I thought it is real

Re: I make $156,000 a year at Twitter and have done nothing

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Post by ElfinTrousers » Thu, Mar 09, 2023, 5:12 PM UTC

I have no idea if this is true or not...but I would like to believe. A company that I worked for briefly many years ago has still been paying for my bus pass this whole time, but that's not quite the same as a full paycheck.

Re: I make $156,000 a year at Twitter and have done nothing

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Post by dagw » Thu, Mar 09, 2023, 7:08 PM UTC

fwlr wrote: post #21

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’…

I've literally had it happen to me at a fairly large (~15k employees) company. I told my boss I was quitting, we agreed on a date for my final day, that day came, I said goodbye. And then I got two more pay-checks, before anyone noticed I was gone. Apparently my boss had completely forgotten to tell whoever he was supposed to tell that I'd quit. I had to pay the money back, but the company gave me a 6 month, interest free, payment plan to return the money.

Re: I make $156,000 a year at Twitter and have done nothing

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Post by techstrategist » Thu, Mar 09, 2023, 7:29 PM UTC

long time follower of pook. this is trolling.

Re: I make $156,000 a year at Twitter and have done nothing

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Post by chrismeller » Thu, Mar 09, 2023, 8:58 PM UTC

kratom_sandwich wrote: post #3

I‘ll just leave this timeless classic here - "The forgotten Employee" https://sites.google.com/site/forgottenemployee/

I thought of exactly the same thing. That story pops up for me every few years and I love re-reading it.

Sometimes I love the internet.

Re: I make $156,000 a year at Twitter and have done nothing

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Post by pgwhalen » Thu, Mar 09, 2023, 9:17 PM UTC

MagicMoonlight wrote: post #22

This is a copy pasta, it’s literally word for word the same as the classic one

What sections? Nothing turns up on google.

Re: I make $156,000 a year at Twitter and have done nothing

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Post by BulgarianIdiot » Fri, Mar 10, 2023, 12:28 AM UTC

kratom_sandwich wrote: post #3

I‘ll just leave this timeless classic here - "The forgotten Employee" https://sites.google.com/site/forgottenemployee/

Programmers can empathize. This is basically the same concept as memory and resource leak.

Re: I make $156,000 a year at Twitter and have done nothing

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Post by Awelton » Fri, Mar 10, 2023, 8:07 PM UTC

They could have shown a little restraint and probably done a pretty good job of baiting everyone, but they went too far for it to be believable. 3/10

Re: I make $156,000 a year at Twitter and have done nothing

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Post by op00to » Sat, Mar 11, 2023, 2:10 AM UTC

fwlr wrote: post #25

op00to wrote: post #23

Earlier 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…

Yes - I’m sorry, I misunderstood you. I thought you had said a people manager would have to hit a button to get his or her people paid. Never mind me!

Re: I make $156,000 a year at Twitter and have done nothing

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Post by penjelly » Sat, Mar 11, 2023, 11:57 AM UTC

Rzor wrote: post #6

tayo42 wrote: post #2

You couldn't just shut up? This is internet addiction, you need attention from strangers so badly you couldn't just shut up about 150k your receiving for doing nothing.

Some people are claiming this is a "joke account", likely to be just an attempt at trolling Elon.

they link to their personal blog. unless that's fake/generated to add to their legitimacy...