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hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

Do you work for Chris Roberts?

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hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

necrobobsledder posted:

That kind of clause is worse than my last company that counted my travel expenses to meet them on-site (I was remote) as part of my compensation, meaning I paid 28%+ of my travel costs out of pocket by increasing my taxable income without getting paid any more. It means that if I traveled, say, 50% of the time that I would be starting to get paid negative because my salary and bonuses would be less than the taxes I'd owe on the taxable income. I complained to my manager and he said "yeah, we had a problem for a while where people couldn't pay their mortgages because they had traveled so much for the company and the company just cut them a check in those cases." That company was poo poo though, which is why if you're getting a worse deal than even that before you're even signed on you should absolutely run.

Be thankful you were given this kind of warning flag up-front

Did you ever check with an accountant or attorney to see if there was any remedy?

edit: this happens when they don't have an accountable plan: https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/2595504-can-my-company-show-reimbursed-expenses-as-my-earnings

I don't see how a company could have an accountant and not have some of the most basic accounting stuff so that's a good reason to run - who knows what questionable stuff they're doing.

hobbesmaster fucked around with this message at 00:06 on Nov 6, 2016

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

Yeah I would at least have them do something thing trivial like reverse a string or whatever.

In my last round of interviews it was a slight concern if there was nothing involving writing a couple of lines of code in the technical part of the interview.

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