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Originally Posted by EWRflyr
Yes, I noticed it and knew this would happen as soon as we went to paying for work done instead of being advanced for work not yet performed.
Personally never liked getting paid in advance. Much prefer getting half my guarantee for the previous month on the 1st and then all the clean up from that previous month on the 16th.
The way CAL runs pay is just ahead, slightly, from an abacus. They couldn't get organized enough to actually pay for work done so they apparently just gave up and bought themselves two weeks each month to figure it out by using the advance system. I had a tough time getting my bank to understand this during a refi last year. It looked like my pay was being docked at every mid-month paycheck to pay back a company loan or alimony or court-ordered settlement or something. They also make us pay claim a lot of little things using an arcane DOS-based system that they can perfectly well figure out themselves which they know increases their bottom line at pilot expense because we don't have time, don't understand, or just give up. Like sending in a rebate. This is our money they withhold until we say we want it. Crazy. We earned it, figure it out and pay it. I don't really blame the pay folks as they're understaffed just like every other department at CAL. No one has time to effectively run anything, they just put out fires.
Where was I, oh yea, I agree with EWRflyr.