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.
"This week's pay, like every second paycheck so far, is going entirely toward charity and mutual aid btw."
Ah yes, before the thread ends have to make sure people on the internet know I am a GOOD person. But since I am so good and humble I will put it at the end of the thread with a casual "btw".
I was wondering this. I imagine you could make a good case that they offered an employment contract, you accepted, and then they chose not to take advantage of your efforts for any tasks. I'd hope that if you could show that you acted in good faith and tried very hard to get them to give you work, then you'd be totally in the clear.
There must be people who have spent an entire career as a forgotten employee.
My dream is to find a job where there are no expectations except to be there, leaving me free to program all day. Like car park attendant, or I went to a corner bottle shop the other day and there was a guy there who looked liked he had very little to do most of the day.
I was thinking this originally too, but now I'm feeling bad for the people actually in this situation (and yet not tweeting about it) who are going to get flushed out because of this
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.
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’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.
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.
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.
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.
The multiple posts a day, essentially all saying the same thing, seems to support this idea - he's waiting for one to take off I assume.
I hope it is lol. Maybe its a little sad that I thought it is real
they link to their personal blog. unless that's fake/generated to add to their legitimacy...
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.
Programmers can empathize. This is basically the same concept as memory and resource leak.
Ah yes, before the thread ends have to make sure people on the internet know I am a GOOD person. But since I am so good and humble I will put it at the end of the thread with a casual "btw".
This might be true, but I suspect it's fictional. Someone is trolling the twitter team hard though and I'm here for it.
Yep you’re right.
Elon has already emailed HR asking to know who is on $153k.
But tragically, everyone in HR was laid off months ago. /s
And you know this how? :)
If this is true, could he get in legal trouble and be required to pay everything back?
I was wondering this. I imagine you could make a good case that they offered an employment contract, you accepted, and then they chose not to take advantage of your efforts for any tasks. I'd hope that if you could show that you acted in good faith and tried very hard to get them to give you work, then you'd be totally in the clear.
Why would the employee need to prove anything beyond having a contract?
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.
Hopefully they get fired just for the stupidity that is going around telling the internet about it.
There must be people who have spent an entire career as a forgotten employee.
My dream is to find a job where there are no expectations except to be there, leaving me free to program all day. Like car park attendant, or I went to a corner bottle shop the other day and there was a guy there who looked liked he had very little to do most of the day.
This guy did nothing and bored then decided to sabotage himself.
This guy is trolling Elon.
Is he successful? Will see.
I applaud him for sending Elon on a goose hunt. Amazing how you can occupy his brain with just a little trolling.
I was thinking this originally too, but now I'm feeling bad for the people actually in this situation (and yet not tweeting about it) who are going to get flushed out because of this
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.
Would be nice to see any evidence whatsoever. At this point this is very likely just trolling.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
This is a copy pasta, it’s literally word for word the same as the classic one
What sections? Nothing turns up on google.
Milton?
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.
long time follower of pook. this is trolling.
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