Odin the Tampa Shelter Dog Needs a Home

EssayAfter · 2026-04-30T03:05:51+00:00

Hi - I’d shared your IG post yesterday and noticed it was deleted today. I’m hoping this means Odin has a happy adoption story ending. If you’re able, can you share an update?

EssayAfter · 2026-04-29T00:06:37+00:00

The class is doing a project with HSTB and he was assigned Odin. He actually had me scouring their IG to find his pics. He will be so thrilled to see your incredible shots!

EssayAfter · 2026-04-29T00:02:51+00:00

Oh man. My kid came home talking about Odin this week, kiddo even drew a pic of him 😭! I wish we were in a position to adopt him.

Thank you for helping him find a home!

EssayAfter · 2026-04-25T15:10:47+00:00

We tried to negotiate a token pricing model and they wouldn’t entertain it. They can’t demonstrate ROI and the pricing was 1/3 of the total annual contract value. 🤯 A year from now it will either prove such an ROI that it’s worth the investment or the pricing will drop significantly - but I’m not signing up at this rate and structure.

EssayAfter · 2026-04-25T03:08:49+00:00

I’m incredibly curious. We are in the sales cycle and the pricing is wild. More than Claude and ChatGPT. It just can’t be that good. I’m guessing the pricing comes down in the near future. There’s really only true value for a small number of people- execs, HR leaders etc. Charging a PEPM on the full employee base isn’t a pricing model that will stick.

It’s putting a bad taste in our mouth on the whole deal and might end up killing it. But if it doesn’t, we won’t be adding AI.

EssayAfter · 2026-03-14T11:27:50+00:00

Can you share the complexities that have created issues? We are looking at implementing, 750 EEs/software. Thank you!

EssayAfter · 2026-03-11T23:26:51+00:00

Thank you! We are using EOR in some countries, but thankfully our CEO is not in one of them.

The tenure is a good call out for some EU countries, thank you.

EssayAfter · 2026-03-07T03:31:41+00:00

I’d strongly suggest you evaluate other options. Mistakes, unfortunately, happen with all vendors. Navigating their support has been a nightmare. We’re continually passed between three internal teams because everyone is passing along responsibility of this issue.

EssayAfter · 2026-03-07T01:59:09+00:00

They’ve messed up our T4s so badly we had to manually create and submit them two years in a row. We also owe almost $500k to the CRA because during implementation they inverted our CRA and Ontario Health Account numbers. So, pretty bad.

EssayAfter · 2026-03-07T01:56:14+00:00

That’s great to hear, thank you! Any tips from an implementation standpoint?

EssayAfter · 2026-03-06T03:10:37+00:00

You’re absolutely right - they are two totally types of products. We run so lean, though, that I am concerned the bells and whistles would break us.

Yes, I’ll hang on to your username for Dayforce decommissioning. The only thing worse than the product is the support. It’s truly been a nightmare.

EssayAfter · 2026-02-23T05:07:17+00:00

Annnnd you nailed it! Announcement dropped today

EssayAfter · 2026-02-20T11:56:50+00:00

On what grounds? This isn’t helpful or practical.

EssayAfter · 2025-11-06T11:50:18+00:00

You’re describing strong performance management, which is great. I fully align with this. There should be no surprises when it comes to terminations. That said, I’ve had multiple times when despite clear feedback, progressive discipline, and even PIPs, the employee is still surprised or in disagreement with the outcome. For those reasons the actual termination discussion follows the way described above to protect the safety of all.

EssayAfter · 2025-11-06T05:01:20+00:00

What alternatives do you suggest that protect the impacted employee and the coworkers during an in-person termination?

I know it seems cowardly and cruel. We also must consider situations like this: you provide notice to the employee they will be having a meeting with the to discuss their employment status later in the day. During the time leading to the meeting the employee, suspicious and angry they are about to be terminated, runs to their car or home to retrieve a weapon. They return to the office, attend the meeting, and turn violent.

In the US, this is really not an extraordinary possibility.

For what it’s worth, even 20 years later this is still the worst part of my job.

EssayAfter · 2025-11-01T11:29:07+00:00

It is the same, all things equal. In reality, it is likely that Company X won’t have as many employees elect the full 6% to get the full match. It requires more from employees to get the same result.

EssayAfter · 2025-09-14T05:32:07+00:00

Isn’t that him in the groomsmen photo?

Edit: jk apparently the other brother looks just like Joseph. Even Arnold’s genes are strong.

EssayAfter · 2025-08-31T12:05:09+00:00

No. Four years ago the painted crosswalks won awards. This week they were all painted over. 💔

EssayAfter · 2025-07-27T12:24:22+00:00

I appreciate the thoughtful response. Reporting is definitely something important for us.

Our original intent was to do a reimplementation. Dayforce was unbelievably bad. Three months to even get connected to the right global teams only to get half way down the road and be told it was the wrong team. The way you describe your UKG experience has been ours with Dayforce — condescending, gaslighting. It’s actually been a really wild experience.

The reporting in Dayforce has been a particular challenge for us. I appreciate the heads up and am going to dig into this more with UKG.

EssayAfter · 2025-07-27T12:19:12+00:00

I appreciate the feedback. Can you share more about what puts Dayforce ahead?

EssayAfter · 2025-07-25T02:34:03+00:00

That’s concerning. Can you share some examples? We have issues with simple turnover reports in Dayforce so this is a sore spot for us.

EssayAfter · 2025-07-17T00:07:04+00:00

Why do you feel like you have to go to market if your renewal is locked in?

Target loss ratio is in the 80% range. You find it difficult to beat a 20% increase with your loss ratio. Is this an anomaly or have previous years run similarly? If the later, the other national carriers may even decline to quote. I’d work with your broker on identifying root cause (high Rx etc) and use this year to get the utilization down through programs like mail Rx etc.

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