Ring ring! The Eighties referred to as, they need their fax machines again… Severely, who has a fax machine anymore? When is the final time you needed to fax one thing? Now we’ve encrypted emails for personal mailing, and so forth. Faxing? Come on, grandpa. Welcome to the twenty first century. All people is aware of that faxing is antiquated. So why did this one firm, as instructed by an ex-employee on Reddit, require workers to fax their timesheets in in the event that they needed to receives a commission on time? Positive, OP says this was in 2014, however even by then fax machines had been a factor of the previous. So there might solely be one actual motive—as a result of they purposefully needed to pay everybody late. They knew no person had a fax machine and would simply choose to receives a commission late as a result of, actually, they’d no different alternative. Till OP began working there as a result of to the corporate’s chagrin, it seems he had an previous fax machine laying round his home. When he faxed his timesheet over and STILL did not receives a commission on time, that is when issues began to hit the fan. He got here by means of for his coworkers! (In contrast to these coworkers on this different office drama story.)