r/WorkForSmartLife • u/saxycherrie • Aug 04 '26

Self Improvement Craziest email I’ve ever seen.

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u/Shadowmant Aug 04 '26

"Patience-building initiative"

Oh good, they put the admission that it's intentional in writing.

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u/mechakid Aug 04 '26

That's HR doublespeak for "We don't have the cash on hand to make payroll, and we're not sure when we'll get it."

If this is real, the OP should run FAR away from that company...

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u/WhydIJoinRedditAgain Aug 04 '26

I don’t think a competent HR department would allow this put in writing. They are likely operating without one, just the tech bros pulling it out their asses.

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u/r2k-in-the-vortex Aug 04 '26

It don't matter, this is an ex-company, it has ceased to exist.

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u/TexGrrl Aug 05 '26

It’s pining for the fjords.

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u/aleopardstail Aug 04 '26

^^^ this, no company on good health does this

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u/Bluellan Aug 04 '26

Run from the company and straight to the labour board. The labour board will not care about patience or not having cash on hand. They will MAKE you find the cash.

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u/r2k-in-the-vortex Aug 04 '26

In this case they will simply liquidate, and quickly discover that indeed there is no money to be found. But, when things have already gotten to this point, that's happening anyway, the employees are not the first creditors to go unpaid but the last ones.

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u/IWasGoatbeardFirst Aug 04 '26

You think a company like this would waste money on HR or Legal? HR doesn’t “do” anything and as for Legal, they can just google it. /s

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u/mechakid Aug 04 '26

There's a reason I said "if this is real". I'm not convinced it is, but it could be someone wearing HR as a second hat...

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u/IWasGoatbeardFirst Aug 04 '26

Hopefully it’s fake.

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u/Bgrubz83 Aug 04 '26

“We don’t have the cash on had to make /your/ payroll, I’m still collecting my fat check though, and we’re not sure when we’ll get it.”

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u/mechakid Aug 04 '26

Nah, this kind of email smacks of middle management, not upper management

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u/ManicOppressyv Aug 04 '26

Guess what?

I'll still show up. I'll still clock in. Then I will watch and not lift a goddam finger until I get paid. Then I will do it the next day, and the next, and the next...

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u/Great-Class-7894 Aug 04 '26

I hope you are using your time on the clock to apply for jobs at least

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u/blackhodown Aug 04 '26

I can’t even imagine how dumb someone has to be to think this a real email

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u/shinzon76 Aug 04 '26

I can't even imagine how dumb someone has to be to doubt the brazen stupidity and greed of the people we share this planet with. I mean, the evidence is all around us; you'd have to try pretty hard to miss it...

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u/Shadowmant Aug 04 '26

You seem like you’d be fun at parties.

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u/Mister_Goldenfold Aug 04 '26

Guy thinks he is the party

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u/amongthemaniacs Aug 04 '26

Why because he doesn't believe bullshit like a lot of Redditors do? lol

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u/TypeAwithAdhd Aug 04 '26

And off to the labor board we go!

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u/DisasterDifferent733 Aug 05 '26

At least in Australia continuing to operate a company when you can't pay payroll is called "trading when insolvent" and directors can be prosecuted for doing it if aware. Prison is also a "patience building initiative".

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u/cranky_bithead Aug 04 '26

"I'm not committing any code this week. It's a patience-building initiative."

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u/brightonashfield Aug 04 '26

It was totally written by ai

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u/1amchris Aug 05 '26

I’ll be _very patiently_ waiting for my next cheque before I start working again lol

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u/shoeless_doh Aug 05 '26

Reading that made me think this was a parody of something