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

[tayo42]

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.

[Rzor]

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

[pcthrowaway]

This might be true, but I suspect it's fictional. Someone is trolling the twitter team hard though and I'm here for it.

[andrewstuart]

Yep you’re right.

Elon has already emailed HR asking to know who is on $153k.

[mamonster]

>"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".

[kratom_sandwich]

I‘ll just leave this timeless classic here - "The forgotten Employee"

https://sites.google.com/site/forgottenemployee/

[chrismeller]

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.

[BulgarianIdiot]

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

[andrewstuart]

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.

[fwlr]

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.

[dagw]

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.

[op00to]

What? No. This is not how salaried payroll worked in … 8 companies over 20+ years, 10 of them in people management.

[johntash]

If this is true, could he get in legal trouble and be required to pay everything back?

[leoedin]

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.

[frozenport]

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.

[MagicMoonlight]

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

[pgwhalen]

What sections? Nothing turns up on google.

[Zetobal]

I applaud him for sending Elon on a goose hunt. Amazing how you can occupy his brain with just a little trolling.

[pcthrowaway]

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

[PM_me_your_math]

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.

[ElfinTrousers]

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.

[Awelton]

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

[jerojero]

Hopefully they get fired just for the stupidity that is going around telling the internet about it.

[epups]

Would be nice to see any evidence whatsoever. At this point this is very likely just trolling.

[alismayilov]

This guy did nothing and bored then decided to sabotage himself.

[op00to]

This guy is trolling Elon.

[techstrategist]

long time follower of pook. this is trolling.

[aregsar]

Milton?