Some of you guys are too tightly wound. I was trying to bring some levity to the situation by saying, being how the cutoff for this paycheck was the 8th, and my date of hire is the 11th, I'm willing to cut them some slack. I'm not really defending anything. It was a joke, pure and simple. I shouldn't have received anything, but it's odd they chose to pay us just a uniform allowance.

I thought the joke was obvious. Apologies to anyone who misunderstood.