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[bzarcher]

*grumble* We're now on day 8 of the 7-10 days in which my refund would arrive. No refund yet. Hopefully tomorrow.

I've also found out that interns are basicially the ONLY people here paid monthly. Period.

This has lead me to a very simple decision: NEVER GET ROPED INTO A MONTHLY PAY-CYCLE EVER AGAIN. If the rest of the world is getting paid bi-monthly, don't settle for less.

If I get really lucky, maybe I'll hear about the other job today!

Yeah, right.

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[buschap.livejournal.com]

Semi, dude, semi.

All the librarians are on the monthly pay cycle, too.

Also, if you're hard up, I'm liquid enough right now that I can float you some.

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[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

I'll manage, I think, but thank you.

But all of the librarians? Really? Odd. Everything else I've seen has been bi-monthly.

You still mean semi

[buschap.livejournal.com]

Are people in your department hourly? I don't know about the handful of hourlies here, but all the salaried are paid monthly.

As for me, I don't mind it. I'm still going paycheck to paycheck, but budgeting isn't too hard for me (no major bills helps, too).

I do?

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Twice a month seems like bi-monthly to me, but whatever.

Even the salaried people in my office get paid every 2 weeks. *shrug*

I don't really like the paycheck to paycheck, not just because of bills but because I'd rather have 2 times when I know I'll have money coming in to arrange my neccesary spending around.

No, you mean bi-weekly ;)

[muttnik.livejournal.com]

Bi-monthly would be every 2 months. So I hope that's not what you're going for. Bi-weekly is every two weeks. It seems like it should be the opposite, but there it is. :)

Re: No, you mean bi-weekly ;)

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

English is such a silly language.

We should all just speak Esperanto.

Re: I do?

[buschap.livejournal.com]

Bi means "every two", semi means "every half".

Give it two decades, and bi will have lost its proper meaning, just like any knowledge of gerunds :)

Re: I do?

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Huh.

Well, I just say fuck da po-lice. Yep.

Re: I do?

[snowspinner.livejournal.com]

You could always use "every other week" if you wanted... it's not quite the same, but FAPP

Re: I do?

[degraine.livejournal.com]

*plaintive expression*

Hasn't anyone around here heard of fortnights?

*ominous choral hum*

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

That's one of those HEATHEN measurements of time.

Re: *ominous choral hum*

[degraine.livejournal.com]

But...America still USES heathen measurements! What's one more that's actually semi-useful?

*louder ominous choral hum*

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

THERE SHALL BE NO METRIC.

[muttnik.livejournal.com]

Full time employees at U of C (or at least in the Med Center/BSD) are on a monthly pay cycle too. I love it. It just takes some getting used to. :)

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[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

I repeat the You poor bastards. Nearly everything else seems to operate on bi-monthly, especially in buisness or bills, and it makes so much more sense to me that it isn't even funny.

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[muttnik.livejournal.com]

Makes more sense? Really? I get paid for the month of January on January 30. I use that paycheck for all February expenses. I know exactly how much I can spend between then and February 27 when I get paid again. I don't have to spread purchases out over the month and worry about paying for one thing out of one paycheck, and waiting till the next to pay for another. It's all there at once. The only problem I can see with being paid once a month is if you're inclined to blow the entire thing as soon as you get it, which I can't imagine you doing anyway.

Seriously, it makes sense. Just takes a little budgeting and adjustment, neither of which ever hurt anyone. So there.

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[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

(Actually, between the car payment, insurance, and the lovely student loans, I do blow about half of it right away, but that's a digression.)

What's so wrong about spreading things out? That way, if something comes up, you maybe say, well, let's delay this, and take care of that. Sure, there's budgeting, but if an emergency develops, budgeting doesn't mean squat.

[gigerlicious.livejournal.com]

U-M pays monthly too.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Poor bastard.

[ardaniel]

CMU paid monthly. Probably still does, given that every time the staff got to talk to Jerry at the annual Talk to Jerry Thing while I was there, he was like "no, you're not getting bimonthly pay scheduling."

And, all arguments in favor taken as valid... I still hated it. I paid my rent and all my bills out of that one for a month, and limped around on about two hundred bucks the rest of the time.

Not that I'm enjoying my current situation either, but at least at CMU, my reasons for walking were cold, concrete, and eventually led to some trouble over in my department.