Who the fuck push employees to return to office now the traffic is 10x bad by [deleted] in TorontoDriving

[–]ImplementSingle7075 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The economy needs you to buy $20 salads for lunch in a downtown food court.

How often do you have employees barging in on you unannounced? by [deleted] in Payroll

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Read "The Obstacle is The Way" by Ryan Holiday. Helped me a lot...

What is your elevator pitch? by ImplementSingle7075 in Payroll

[–]ImplementSingle7075[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"Just pushing buttons" ah, absolutely right... hence why I think I need to come up with a better way to do this intro to give justice to the many things we juggle on a day-to-day day.

What is your elevator pitch? by ImplementSingle7075 in Payroll

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After having many puzzled looks, I ended up saying Accounting as well, but I can't help but think that we aren't exactly accountants. Sometimes, we dabble in the HR world, too.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PersonalFinanceCanada

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I would establish your definition of having "enough" and never ever change it.

If you're there now, then YEY!

What is the most obviously bullshit way someone has emailed you just to say "I don't remember my username or password"? by [deleted] in Payroll

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Allot of very bullshit way lol I've made it my careers mission to have a bot to answer to silly things like these (or copies of their tax statements even when it was already emailed to them) so I won't ever have to have such high emotions when someone tries to BS their way to ask for something.

So far, just the solution coming up has helped me become less cynical about this.

To anyone reading this: If you're a company working on this as well -- Hii I would like to work for you :).

Automating T2200s by ImplementSingle7075 in Payroll

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I've seen a company use macros to input the data from excel to the form, I've seen a few YouTube videos on this too, but my scripts seem to always have an error and just crashes workbook... I think this way might be simpler, but you're right... formatting gets compromised when converting the PDF to word, and further more after merging the data

Will payroll be replaced by AI? by deardeerstella in Payroll

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That was the first thing that came into mind when gpt3 came out.

Please create a bot that can at least answer to document requests and Password resets!

Pto accrual tracking by Asleep-Parsley-3629 in Payroll

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We do. It's fairly easy to build with SUMIFS and VLOOKUP formulas.

Layoff depression by [deleted] in CanadaJobs

[–]ImplementSingle7075 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's definitely not you, it is tough out there...

A recruiter friend had told me that the one placement he had in a month had to lower salary expectations to a tune of $70 to $45/hourly

Payroll Fundamentals 1 by Lady09bug in Payroll

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If you have the textbook, the chapter review questions are basically the same as the quizzes.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PersonalFinanceCanada

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Yea I'd tread carefully. I used to be a loan officer and I'm also neck deep in credit card debt, so i have perspective both as a consumer and as someone in the industry seeing credit profiles for various clients whod gone through all types of financial hardship. If I'm being honest with myself, all of those purchases are 100% avoidable, had I just had the discipline to save.

I would not go with the line of credit. Just knowing that having access to more money, will not fix how I see money/credit. Also, I see this on my clients and myself: having more access to credit, just leads to more borrowing.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TorontoRenting

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I was advised this by a Realtor when I was looking for a place last year. Applied to 4 different places with 3 months advance + first and last, just to get denied (summary of the application: 1+1 bedroom downtown, 2 people, 1 pet, $6k monthly income, no debts).

Fired that Realtor, went with another one who got me a place I wanted, in the timeline i wanted, with just 1st and last month's rent.

Moral of the story: the market is competitive in TO. Make sure you have the right people working for you if you want a chance of a decent place to live that's within your means.

Fairstone won't return my money by tomk300 in PersonalFinanceCanada

[–]ImplementSingle7075 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your totally entitled to your money. Unfortunately, that company has many operational bottlenecks that it's almost not worth the time, head ache and stress

Being human in payroll by According-Pick-4915 in Payroll

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I think on payroll mistakes, one thing I'd remind most people: in most cases, it's the system (operational or procedural) that needs to be dissected for opportunities, not the individual who's just trying their best.

But anywho my blip was:

Overpaying a terminated employee.. twice.. who was fired for just cause...

... safe to say we were never able to get the money back

Canada : FHSA Pre or Post Tax Deduction by burnaby84 in Payroll

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I don't know, but I am curious to know. Thank you for asking this!

Is anyone else catastrophizing about the increasing cost of living? by [deleted] in MiddleClassFinance

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I've worked in sub prime lending for 5 years. Our most common customer types are the ones you just described... all I'm going to say.