My town defaulted on our only free public charger’s electricity bill
I work for a multi-billion dollar company. Standard invoice payment is net 45 and it takes multiple signatures, including CFO, and very specific reasons to get net 30. Problem is net 45 is just to start the approval process to pay the invoice. So by the time it gets approved, processed, cut the check, and mail it out it’s at net 60. So the company that invoiced us really gets the check 65-75 days after the due date. Oh yeah, forgot to mention that net 45 is based on the due date, not the day the invoice is received. Ironically, when we were much much smaller, the owners (private business at the time) ensured everything was paid the same week we got the invoice, no matter the due date. Then they sold the business and now that it’s worth way more, everything is paid 2-3 months late. SMH I’ll never understand thatWe got hit with a nearly $50k late fee because of our office manager's reluctance (laziness) to pay for reagents for lab equipment. The lab manager isn't allowed access to any sort of expense or credit card, it all goes through her. No more Net30 or 90, it's all paid ahead of time now.
She's also failed to pay our internet bill which very nearly got cut off until I threatened to walk out because I wasn't going to deal with the weeks of work it'd take to update equipment, external vendors, VPNs (I'd likely have to go to some remote sites), etc. Once we lose service, those static IPs get released into the void never to be seen again, we'd get issued a dozen new ones.
The amount we waste on late fees/interest pays nearly my entire salary because she can't be assed to do her job. But she's been working with the CEO for 25 years so literally can do no wrong in his eyes.Ya I know some people with electric vehicles and they can be really funny with money, like they will go pay $50k for a tesla then they will cheap out on getting a charger installed in the garage and will spend years trying to figure out where the free chargers are in the city. One person I know sends the car with a relative to work once a week to get a charge. To me I find this ironic because the best feature of a electric car to me is not needing to go out of my way to charge it, having it always in the garage charged would be the big win. But somehow these people will take the best feature and make it the worstDon’t underestimate the crazy ways people chase the thrill of getting a deal/steal. Heck there’s deal sites where thousands of posts will debate laundry detergent that’s a few dollars off even though it makes no practical sense.
It’s totally not just an EV thing. I’ve worked at tech companies with free meal programs and seen well paid tech workers go through hoops to hack a free salad bar and talk about whether filling the tub with blueberries or pure olive oil is more bang for the buck.
Heck just recently there was an infamous loop of using Instacart via Costco to deliver Instacart gift cards that could get you potentially 20 dollars per 4+ hours of effort and people still did it despite this being far below minimum wage or just picking up Uber passengers for an hour.
Any time you give away something “free” that people are willing to pay for, you’re gonna see this kind of Lord of the Flies behavior. It seems to be human nature
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