See if you can bully the HR department into sending you the money now. They usually respond well to something like “I need to pay rent/buy food”.
Also ask your landlord for some grace, explain the situation, if they’re a decent human they’ll understand.
This is a great opportunity to stand up for yourself. You worked the hours, go get your money. My job tried to do that to me when I was working night shift and I was told that after payroll goes through there’s no way to get my paycheck in and I’d get double the next paycheck, so I was gonna be out a couple thousand bucks right before the first of the next month. I was paycheck to paycheck at that point, so it just wasn’t an option. I raised absolute hell and took it to corporate. Several hours of phone calls later, I was told it would be in my account the next day, and it was. It was never ‘not possible’, it was just getting the right people to do a little bit of extra work, which is INSANELY difficult sometimes. Your advisor needs to fix his mistake now, then everybody else who has a hand in making sure you get your money needs to do whatever they need to do to fix it. Doesn’t matter if it’s a weekend, at night, or Christmas Day. Get yo’ money.
Thanks for the advice. I’ll send him an email now. I guess he just need to be reminded frequently to get things done 
He’s not even the one paying me (the grant is from the school). Literally all he has to do is to click a button…
This is exactly what I mean. People will have to be kicked in the ass to do the littlest thing if it’s not directly benefiting themselves. Emails are good for documentation, but if you haven’t heard back in an hour, call him. Don’t ever be afraid about hounding somebody for something that should already be in your pocket.
Yeah. I read it as yanking your leash a little, but it could be an honest mistake.
Many many reasons things don’t happen. Some people just can’t be bothered. Some are distracted or anxious. Who knows.
One of the first things that’s taught to leaders in my current organisation is “make sure you do everything you can to pay your people correctly”. Definitely something they’ve got right.
As they should! My wife was ops management over a few hundred people and that was one of her primary concerns. She actually fired a good handful of floor level supervisors for repeat offenses of screwing up payroll.
There was even an incident at her workplace where a sup. couldn’t be bothered to follow up on separation/final pay wherein the fired employee came back with a gun and held her supervisor, the payroll lady and several other members of management at gunpoint until they produced a check.
That shit gets real very quickly. Of course, it was a short lived victory because she was arrested a couple hrs. later and is now in prison, but it all could have been avoided.
Was gonna say the same thing: e-mails get ignored. Hard to do that when you’re talking to someone.
Had a similar story dealing with U-Haul trying to get a shipment weighed before going to my next location. “Couldn’t be done”. 3 hours on the phone later I’m talking with some dude whose like the VP of big U-Haul and the next morning the team shows up with weigh tickets.
You can get a lot done with a phone and free time.
Best results I get are over the phone. Seems even more prominent in engineering. Most engineers are phone adverse so anytime I need something from a supplier I call their engineer and make them commit then follow up with an email that usually starts “As we discussed on the phone…”
It’s also the reason most big companies now have an insane automated menu to get through before talking to a person. They are hoping you will get fed up and the end the call prematurely.
People in general are so averse to being on the phone that you can get pretty much whatever you want with a phone call. They’ll do anything to make the phone call end, haha.
Just in general - direct confrontation wins. My wife would always get upset in a line of traffic that people wouldn’t let her in and try to just cut people off, which would infuriate me, haha. I roll my window down all the way, lean out and make eye contact with someone, and even if they look pissed off, once you make eye contact and gesture about getting in, they’ll back down and let you. The people who blatantly ignore you and look ahead make it away, but there’s always someone that will let you catch their eye.
It’s easy to ignore emails/texts, and it’s also easy to be an a-hole through them, which is why the keyboard warrior reigns supreme these days. Face to face, or even through the phone, things are harder to say or ignore.
I, no joke, didn’t get texting until 2013 for that very reason. My co-workers were ALWAYS getting bad news/ridiculous requests over text, and I avoided all of them because no one wanted to call me and actually SAY these things to a real person.
Only reason I ended up getting texting was because they started sending out schedule changes via text. Showing up somewhere at 0500 when it turns out you’re supposed to be there at 2200 really puts a damper on your day…
@flappinit @T3hPwnisher @cyclonengineer I HATE answering the phone. Probably bc most of the calls I get are spam 
I don’t have his phone number, so email it was 
I also emailed the program coordinator and she said she would push him.
Mum said she’d cover rent so that’s good
Week 5: Day 5
Deadlifts: 1x5,4,3,2,1 -225lbs
RDL: 4x6-145lbs
Pendlay rows: 5x5-105lbs
6x90sec (10 pushups+20alt lunges+max burpees in rest of 90sec), 30sec rest
20min run (needed to get back fast)
Taking today off. Don’t recall the last time I intentionally took 2 rest days in a week. Might do something later if I feel up to it
Everyone’s said it already but I highly recommend phone calls as well. Our generation especially, @anna_5588, seems to literally be afraid of making/answering phone calls. Like people said though, force them to talk to you. I got an email from a former boss once saying they’d accepted my voluntary resignation. I hadn’t resigned. My boss just hadn’t scheduled me for the shifts I’d always worked so another employee could work them, and rather than find a solution, didn’t schedule me and after not working for a short period, was able to act like I quit. Emails were ignored, phone calls led to some uncomfortable conversations. (For them.) I quit the job anyway, haha. It was very part time, minimum wage. I had better options. But it’s so easy for people to screw you over if they never have to see your face or hear your voice. Most people aren’t comfortable with confrontation, even when it’s appropriate, so they will usually be more helpful when forced into situations like those.
@SkyzykS @dagill2 @flappinit @rroo @cyclonengineer @T3hPwnisher
Looks like the reminder worked! He finally got around to approving my time
@jshaving that sounds like a truly crappy situation! I agree with the afraid of making phone calls thing. It feels so intrusive. I find answering phone calls (unless from family or friends) extremely annoying. They always seem to come at bad times and FKING robo calls
Well thats good.
Now how long till you have cash in hand?
Till Friday
@Chris_Colucci I’m getting a notification to reset password on my phone, but not on my computer. What’s up?
Week 6: Day 1
1-10-1 of manmakers -20lb Dbs and lunges/side
Curls: 1x70-20lbs
Burpees: 25 regular, 25 with squat chaser
wasn’t as intense as expected but killed shoulder and upper back, decently hot and I think that made a HUGE difference- I LOVE the heat! Burpees felt great, shoulder muscle endurance getting in the way though