{"id":47,"date":"2007-01-02T12:17:59","date_gmt":"2007-01-02T17:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2007\/01\/02\/47\/"},"modified":"2007-01-02T12:17:59","modified_gmt":"2007-01-02T17:17:59","slug":"47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2007\/01\/02\/47\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guess who&#8217;s a big old jackass!  The guy who washes his pants with his paycheck in the pocket.  <i>Why, that&#8217;s me!<\/i><\/p>\n<p>That said, my current system of payment involves my issuing an electronic invoice, their cutting a check a week later, sending that check on a week-long 740-mile journey in a check-shaped envelope with a transparent window, and having me physically carry said check five blocks to the same bank every damn week.  <s>You&#8217;d think a company that is <i>made of Internet<\/i> could streamline this process somehow!  I&#8217;m not denying my own culpability here, but that doesn&#8217;t mean I can&#8217;t call shenanigans on the system.  The McDonald&#8217;s next door offers direct deposit, and my last employer required it, and my current employer should at least make it an option.<\/s><\/p>\n<p><b>Update 1337<\/b> hrs:  Spookily, right after I posted this, my boss called me to say that a) I&#8217;m now in the corporate bonus pool, despite being a consultant, and b) I just got a significant raise.  All complaints withdrawn!  Forever!  Probably not forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guess who&#8217;s a big old jackass! The guy who washes his pants with his paycheck in the pocket. Why, that&#8217;s me! That said, my current system of payment involves my issuing an electronic invoice, their cutting a check a week later, sending that check on a week-long 740-mile journey in a check-shaped envelope with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-jobs","category-stress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}