On Sunday, February 14, 2021 at 6:19:59 PM UTC-5, Sqwertz wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Feb 2021 17:45:56 -0500, Dave Smith wrote:
>
> > On 2021-02-14 5:30 p.m., Sqwertz wrote:
> >> On Sun, 14 Feb 2021 12:53:29 -0800 (PST), John Kuthe wrote:
> >>
> >>> Yay! :-)
> >>>
> >>> John Kuthe, RN, BSN...
> >>
> >> And you aren't getting one. Nobody processes payroll on the 1st and
> >> 15th that covers the previous week.
> >>
> > My experience is that pay in smaller organizations is generally
> > bi-weekly and paid two weeks after the end of the pay period. You start
> > at the beginning of the pay period. Paperwork goes in at the end of the
> > pay period and then the paycheque arrives at the end of the next one,
> > two weeks later.
> Not here. Most orgs pay every other Friday for the first two of the
> last 3 weeks. If John's thinks he's getting paid on Monday, that's
> the 15th, which usually indicates a twice monthly pay period, 1st
> and 15th. And that pays from the half month period that ended a
> week age. These twice monthly pay period suck because there are a
> variable number of days and weekend days in a pay period, and
> sometimes payday falls an weekend. and you might get paid early or
> late. Every other Friday is best for most peoepl since they don't
> work weekdns and can blow all tehir spear money that weekns and
> astill show yuop for work ion Monday.l If you get paid Monday, you
> can't exactly go blow it call at the strip club that night, or if
> you do, call in sick on Tuesday or show up and be semi-useless.

You sure know some classy people. I've been paid semi-monthly
since 1988. All of our employees are non-exempt or salaried.

My husband was paid monthly at his last job.

> The nursing industry may be different since they have odd shifts and
> hours. But I highly doubt he's getting a paycheck on Monday that
> covers the previous 5 days, if he even worked at all last week.
>
> My company is unusual in that we get paid weekly on Friday around
> noon, and it includes pay for hours we haven't even worked yet. I'm
> salaried there, so it doesn't matter, but 70% are hourly and they
> get paid for 4 hours they haven't even worked yet. I don't know what
> the reasoning is, but the owner may have insisted on that since he's
> pretty cool. And on Fridays before a holiday, they'll have a little
> "pep rally"/State of Union and tell everybody to go home around
> 1:PM. So I usually show up on Fridays anyway, but otherwise, I'm
> usually already home. And since we have an ice storm/snow storm
> coming, everybody already got Monday off.

I just heard the snow plow / salt truck go by. Looks like we got a bit
more than a dusting overnight. We're expected to get about 6 inches
total for this storm.

Cindy Hamilton