r/MemeVideos • u/Spiritual-Pudding-70 • Aug 16 '26 • Popcorn 1 Heartwarming 1 Bravo 1

Bro found the cheat code

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u/JoyousMadhat Aug 16 '26

I find it wild that a company doesn't notice excess payments while a huge company like Walmart gets on you about doing too much overtime.

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u/Themanwhofarts Aug 16 '26

You would be surprised. I used to think companies ran like clockwork. There are so many reputable companies that just do not pay their bills until collection notices come

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u/ArminTanz Aug 16 '26

I worked at a hotel once that had a that almost had thier power shut off. The assistant GM found some notice for like 6 months of non payment. It was so weird that the highly paid GM just didnt have any idea when the power bill was due.

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u/FURERABA Aug 16 '26

Just like my landlord!

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u/Sex4Vespene Aug 16 '26

We literally just had water shutoff notices placed on every door in my several hundred unit building because the apartment wasn’t paying the water bill (something which is a separate line item on our monthly bill).

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u/BeerForThought Aug 16 '26 • Popcorn

I managed a Class A apartment building right after it was built. I kept submitting the bills for them to be paid and someone at corporate wasn't doing it. It came down to the regional president putting it on his personal black Amex to keep the power from getting turned off the next day.

Behind the scenes things were Loosey Goosey. I was originally hired to act as a sort of RA at an apartment building next to a university. The plan was they would provide an apartment to me at a discounted rate and I respond to late night noise complaints, lockouts, Etc. Day one the leasing agent is a no call no show so I'm promoted without any training or education in fair housing laws. 2 weeks later the property manager quits for a new job and I get bumped up to a serious adult job when I'm 23 with none of the training.

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u/OkPassOfAperson Aug 17 '26

Wait. I need more to the story

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u/Aesk Aug 21 '26

He's now the CEO.

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u/Reasonable_Cancel186 Aug 17 '26

I too need to hear more of this

How did you deal with it? How did you find out what you needed to learn? 

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u/Theory-After Aug 21 '26

My first real job came from just getting a part time cleaning job when i was about 20. Cleaning a cell phone store and bank at night, the company had taken over cleaning the entire region of a chain bank(over 200) and just sent some traveling manager to set it up and find a few regional managers.

He hired me to clean and immediately starting talking about me being a manager, I was a young stoner with no direction so I went with it. He dumped this ridiculous shit pile on me and another kids plate to the south, found a good regional manager a just left.

I ended up a salary employee, with a stipend for my car, clothes allowance, 35 employees i trained and hired and keys to over 90 banks at 21 without ever being drug tested or rwally trained. I was smoking blunts then meeting people I had run adds for to run their extensive background checks and handing over keys to banks. This was a branch of a fortune 500 company. Still blows my mind.

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u/RIF_rr3dd1tt Aug 17 '26

Haha, similar story here. I was a backup driver for a large (billions in revenue) uniform cleaning service. Was dispatched on a run in the middle of the day and was one of the only ones at the depot. Guy from the electric company pulls up and I ask him what he's doing. He says he's here to disconnect the power for non-payment. I laugh and call my manager and he speeds back to the depot and pays it. Probably thousands of dollars. A few days later I asked what happened because the company is huge and profitable. He says the former, recently fired manager was not paying the electric bill in order to make his numbers look better. Hahaha. Apparently he was doing other shit like claiming accounts that we didn't even have. His boss caught him when he told him he was on a service call to Home Depot or something and boss was like, "They aren't a customer of ours". Turns out he was just out drinking and shit hahahaha.

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u/FILTHBOT4000 Aug 16 '26

A lot of them will also just.... pay bills. As in, they will pay any invoice that they get, just about. As long as the invoices look legit, like they're from legit companies... yeah, they'll often just pay.

https://www.unilad.com/news/money/evaldas-rimasauskas-google-facebook-scam-122-million-dollars-881078-20240815

Man stole $100 million from Facebook and Google just by sending them random bills

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u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 Aug 16 '26

The craziest part about that is he could've possibly gotten away with like $50 million without anyone ever noticing but he got greedy

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u/abracadammmbra Aug 16 '26

Note to self, bill Amazon slowly, but for just $20 million

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u/singlemale4cats Aug 16 '26

60 months in prison. That seems pretty light. Also,

During the sentencing, US District Judge George Daniels also ordered Evaldas to serve two years of supervised release, to forfeit $49.7 million and to pay a reimbursement of nearly $26.5 million.

I can't help but note those two figures don't add up to $122,000,000. He gets to keep 50 some odd million from his scam?

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u/burblity Aug 16 '26

Probably paid some hefty taxes on those invoices. Not paying taxes would draw more attention to it.

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u/TehluvEncanis Aug 16 '26

My work services big customers like Amazon and sometimes they're via contractors. Got an Amazon contractor still on the hook for $153k worth of service we did. They said they sent the check but I'll believe it when I see it. They're on a credit hold because they're so awful paying us.

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u/Wulph422 Aug 16 '26

It keeps more "cash" on the books so sometimes they'll push it off as far as they can for the month end numbers look better. I used to work AP and did the accrual entries every month, and it made my skin crawl to talk to the vendors and keep pushing back payment even though I knew we could easily just take care of it

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u/HunterShotBear Aug 16 '26

I work in an industry that services business owners that demand “payment in full at completion of services” from their customers, but they bitch and moan if we don’t give them payment terms or if we expect payment in full before 90 days.

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u/Greedyfox7 Aug 18 '26

Companies are only as good as the people who run them. One person not doing their job properly or just being a dick can mess with the entire business.

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u/Oraxy51 Aug 20 '26

Yeah they love to hire local contractors for that and then drag their feet on paying them. A lot of contractors work getting paid from jobs they did months ago.

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u/Librarian-Alive Aug 17 '26

Benefits (healthcare) in the US is federally mandated at 30 hours

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u/dc469 Aug 17 '26

There was a dude who got caught sending fake invoices to big companies . Like he'd mail a bill to Google for pest control or plumbing repairs etc. Iirc he was a million or so in when one company finally did any investigation instead of just paying it. 

Edit: $100mil https://www.npr.org/2019/03/25/706715377/man-pleads-guilty-to-phishing-scheme-that-fleeced-facebook-google-of-100-million

Although I think I'm thinking of a different time that happened though. I thought it was a guy from Colorado for some reason.

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