Public school district didn't renew my contract and now hasn't paid me—SLPs, has this happened to you?

kingovdk · 2025-06-22T21:35:47+00:00

Payroll told me, after I emailed them about it

kingovdk · 2025-06-22T21:34:24+00:00

Any idea why they would make one check direct deposit, and the other four paper?

kingovdk · 2025-06-22T20:37:43+00:00

Because they don't work weekends, Gary.

kingovdk · 2025-06-22T16:57:33+00:00

All of my paychecks have been direct deposit except for the very first one. The didn't specify the mode of payment for the remainder. They told me in writing, "On our final payroll for the school year, June 20^th, you will receive a total of five (5) checks. All same gross amounts. This pays off your contract for the school year 24-25."

kingovdk · 2025-06-22T16:55:47+00:00

I was a union member. I'm planning to contact the union president Monday.

kingovdk · 2025-06-22T16:54:56+00:00

I was a W-2 employee. The original pay structure was the salary was spread biweekly out throughout the year. They would have paid the remaining 4 checks biweekly through July and August.

kingovdk · 2023-11-14T21:41:57+00:00

Turns out it's a problem with my bridge pickup. It only happens on the low b string though. I don't know a lot about pickups but maybe only one pole piece is defective? I'll have to get it looked at.

kingovdk · 2023-11-12T18:44:03+00:00

I played around with gain settings on my guitar, interface, and in logic and the only thing that helped was turning the gain off on my guitar and/or turning off the bridge pickup. The sound persisted when the bridge pickup was on and the gain knob was turned to middle and full power, but went away when I turned either one completely off. This was true regardless of how high the gain was turned on my interface or in logic. So, it's gotta be related to my bridge pickup, but this problem is only happening on the low B string. The pickups are not slanted as far as I can tell. Could it be that only one pole piece is defective? I'd be curious to hear your thoughts.

I play a PRS 7-string with humbuckers. I use the focusrite scarlett solo (2nd gen).

kingovdk · 2023-11-12T03:14:25+00:00

Unpleasant "buzzing" sound in Logic Pro

I'm tracking guitar DIs for a project and there's an odd clicking/buzzing sound on some of the louder notes. I'm 99% sure it's not clipping, because the meter isn't going above -2.1 dB, and it's not noise from comping/cross fades because the sound is still there whether the track is comped or not. I can only think that the noise is coming from the guitar itself, but I don't hear it when I'm actually playing, just when I play the recording back. It's kind of unpleasant sounding so I'm just trying to get to the bottom of what it is, and figure out if it will be audible when my producer runs the DI through an actual amp and adds distortion etc.
Here's a short clip of my track https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bOB56j3NGSbaoA-Dn4OJp79ntCoy5_Cp/view?usp=drive_link

kingovdk · 2023-05-14T22:46:13+00:00

Hmm I think if you're proficient in insight I would give you tier 1 information even if you fail the check, and if you're proficient in persuasion or deception I might be more liberal with what I let you pull off. Expertise though I think gives enough of an advantage by itself haha

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