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4 hours ago
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So I work as a junior software engineer at a mid sized startup that has been on a big AI kick lately. They keep talking about how automation is going to make everything more efficient. A few weeks ago they switched payroll to something called Eloquent AI.
Yesterday was payday and nothing hit my account. I go in instead of working from home some days of the week and today I went directly to HR to ask about it, thinking it was just a delay. They sent me the email above. Apparently the system decided my timecard was “irregular” and paused my payment because it thought I wasn’t active enough. I logged off a bit earlier one day last week for a dentist appointment, so maybe that was my great sin.
What really gets me is that they told me this isn’t a bug but just a part of the learning process. Like it’s totally normal for a machine to decide who does or doesn’t get paid. They told me it should self-correct next pay cycle. So now I’m sitting here debugging code while worrying if I’ll be able to afford my lunches until this is fixed.
The part that really worries me is they said it would be resolved “in the next pay period.” We get paid monthly, not biweekly like a lot of companies. So they’re basically telling me to wait four more weeks to maybe get my paycheck if the bot decides to behave. I’m genuinely starting to wonder if I should quit before the AI decides to optimize me out of a job completely. This month thanks to my boyfriend the rent was handled but what will happen next month?
TL;DR:
My company switched payroll to Eloquent AI, and now the AI decided I don’t deserve to be paid this month. HR says it will “self-correct” next pay period, which for us means a full month.
