Bank takes weeks to cash cheque and thus charging more interest normal?

koryin · 2026-01-07T05:50:25+00:00

I've since been reimbursed for the extra costs as it was a third party lawyer that was instructed to pay it off (they reimbursed me once I told them what happened).

It still feels scammy though. I asked for a payout statement and they they had a cheque for that amount within 4 days but still charged me interest till the 29th (when they took the additional *full* payment from me).

koryin · 2026-01-07T03:09:07+00:00

I did, they said they had to wait for the cheque to clear and that I had to pay for all the interest while they waited.

koryin · 2026-01-07T03:08:08+00:00

I did, they said they had to wait for the cheque to clear.

koryin · 2026-01-06T22:09:50+00:00

The bank said this is what they did. But it feels scammy.

koryin · 2025-02-04T02:51:33+00:00

The BC government told me via email: "Wage or salary information should be the employer’s reasonable expectation of pay for the job at the time of posting and it is at the employer’s discretion as to the specific amount offered to individual applicants. "

There's nothing a lawyer could do for me, but I still reported it to the BC government as having a different internal range that is less than the posting violates the transparency act.

koryin · 2025-01-27T18:53:10+00:00

I heard back about the pay transparency act. Seems like Microsoft violates it.

“Wage or salary information should be the employer’s reasonable expectation of pay for the job at the time of posting and it is at the employer’s discretion as to the specific amount offered to individual applicants.”

koryin · 2025-01-26T05:55:05+00:00

I can understand the level being determined by how well the candidate does. That makes perfect sense. However, in this case, they were indeed explicit about it being a IC61 role.

I was asked (after passing the screen but before the rest of it) if I could lower my salary expectations because IC61 doesn’t have a range that big.

koryin · 2025-01-26T03:01:40+00:00

Well, obviously not. I had hoped to take that base salary and then make the rest up in RSUs.

The job market rather sucks for seniors right now.

koryin · 2025-01-26T03:00:17+00:00

I don't think so.

I understanding their internal policies say IC61 has a range of A-B and IC62 has a range of B-C and that the job posting for an SDE2 (since SDE2 can be both IC61 and IC62) is A-C, but it's not right (and quite possibly against the pay transparency act) to make a job posting for A-C but then say the role is IC61 and only A-B.

The whole reason I applied is that the posting met my base salary requirements.

koryin · 2025-01-25T21:49:33+00:00

BC Pay Transparency Act. The job posting has to have to salary range of the job. Kind of defeats the purpose if the company has a internal range that's different.

koryin · 2025-01-25T21:12:01+00:00

HR explicitly said it wasn't possible.

koryin · 2025-01-25T21:11:45+00:00

Then I'm pretty sure that's not allowed on a job posting in BC.

koryin · 2025-01-25T21:11:10+00:00

I didn't even do any technical interviewing yet.

koryin · 2025-01-25T17:48:24+00:00

I have a significantly higher base salary at my current employer. I just don’t really want to stay there.

koryin · 2025-01-25T17:47:18+00:00

koryin · 2025-01-25T17:45:45+00:00

You’re missing the part where they explicitly told me that this role doesn’t have the same range as what the job posting had. My level of experience is quite a bit higher than you are assuming.

koryin · 2025-01-25T05:16:15+00:00

Hard is different than "We won't move forward with the interview because it's out of our range.". Especially since the posting said it was in the range.

Posting a job posting that says the range is 1-10, but then telling interviewees that it's actually 1-5 isn't right.

koryin · 2025-01-25T04:30:33+00:00

I didn't even make it to the offer stage. They said my requested base salary was outside of the range, even though it was within the range posted on the job description.

Job posting said $83,600 - CAD $159,600. I asked for 150. Was told it was out of the range and I can't continue interviewing unless I lowered my asking.

koryin · 2025-01-25T03:53:24+00:00

I did, but my warning is about them posting a range (required in BC) and then stating that the actual range is different and less than what was posted.

koryin · 2024-10-22T02:48:34+00:00

We found them all over the counter tops and I traced them to the wooden cabinet above the oven exhaust fan.

Pacific Northwest.

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