Stipend

But Europeans can complain earlier anyway!

Heck, if they did away with it and started charging only the tier fees, I wouldn't miss it at all, but as it stands, it's a part of what I am paying for.

I wonder if I should nudge them and see what's up, because frankly, I don't know of anyone who has gotten theirs and if the system was working, someone would have theirs by NOW. Hounding won't start until 24 hours have passed.

Oooooo... The usual Tuesday "where's my stipend" thread.

Last week I got my stipend at 10:26am SLT (PDT) on Wednesday and I'm in the same time zone as LL.

They did say in the Blog, that it was taking longer because the number of people getting stipends has increased.

That is not to say, that they haven't borked the process.

I mean isn't the full name of LL "Linden 'Bork' Lab"?

Anyone handing out pie?

To do my part to save the environment, I will recycle my comment from last week's thread:

Darn it! No "I didn't get my stipend" threads until Tuesday is over!

(And that means Tuesday at LL HQ in San Francisco, for those who were planning to protest using the time zone argument. )

*sticks out her tongue* So, did YOU get your stipend?

Actually, they should give us a time table on who gets what when, so we don't start screaming. You know, they could even say, "Those who's last name starts with A - M will get theirs on Tuesday. Those whose last names start with N - Z gets it on Wednesday." I wouldn't mind waiting the extra day before starting to scream!

*giggles* And I'm a really GOOD screamer too!

Havent recieved mine as well and this is the first time its been this late for me as well been playing a long time so I'm kinda worried.

My theory (admittedly, stolen from tv) is that every eligible avatar's UUID is printed on a little ping-pong ball, and those balls are put in a huge tank of water. There, a dozen trained dugongs select pingpong balls and nudge them through a little slot. Inside the slot, an OCR device reads the UUID and the stipend is instantly paid out. Sometimes, if one or two of the dugongs is feeling a bit under-the-weather, they call in sick and it's up to the rest of the dugongs to take up the slack. These are days when stipends take a lot longer to process, because you have only 10 dugongs doing the work of 12. It can get really bad, as you may well imagine, if even more of them are sick. Once, a full half dozen dugongs were ill due to some bad fish, and it took literally 5 days for all the stipends to get paid out.

In light of recent increased delays, I think it may be safe to speculate that there are now so many pingpong balls that it is exceedingly difficult for the dugongs to swim around properly. We may have even lost a dugong or two, due to cutbacks.

-Atashi

Couldn't tell you... I only check for it every month or so when I archive my account history.

I do understand that the timing matters to some people, but it still doesn't justify the panic that occurs BEFORE the normal distribution day is over. And now that LL has blog-posted clearly stating that the processes are taking longer and some stipends may not show up until Wednesday, the weekly Tuesday "didn't get my stipend" thread is... well... very silly to say the least.

Now if someone wants to complain that they didn't get last week's stipend yet, I would certainly be very sympathetic.

*snickers* More like there are soooo many ping pong balls that they are being shoved into the pipe more than one at a time.. thus cluttering up the network!

Okay, this is so very wrong... I should not be occasionally checking my account, see an increase in the L and get excited thinking that it's the stipend.. only to find out it is actual sales. I should be more excited about the sales!

Edit: I did get a response. AND, as Ava suggests, (this is from the support ticket) the panic period is still after 24 hours! Yeah, this is what I really wanted to know, was if they had extended the period of the thing officially or not.

Why can't people wait until Wednesday to post these threads?

I mean, come on!

Its still Tuesday!

OMG Raudf! Did you actually submit a support ticket about not getting your stipend when it is STILL Tuesday?!

/me thwacks my hand with a ping pong paddle and tells Raudf to assume the position.

No, I asked if it was official that they were still doing it on Tuesday only or if they are nudging it into Wednesday. And from what the support said, it was just Tuesday. So, 24 hours before panicking

And besides, I'd like that entirely too much!

Besides, it was the first time I've used the ticket system. Figured I'd use it to judge how long response time is before I'd actually need it. Honest!

Sorry for the double post, but Oooh, apparently there WAS something wrong with the payment process! Check the blog out!

It IS Wednesday in Germany now ...

Does that mean the paperboy will stop chasing me on his bike screaming "I WANT MY TWO DOLLARS!"?

Probably... or it's just his excuse of a pick-up line?

They're quick, ain't they?

So? It has been Wednesday for a good few hours in other countries already.

Just saying that Germans (and I will graciously allow for other Europeans, too) might want to claim the right to complain earlier.

And yet your location still has no effect whatsoever on what time it is in San Francisco. Unless of course that location is flying really fast around the earth to reverse its rotation and make time go backward... but that would just make it Monday, which probably isn't what you were going for.

"We have to pay our own local tax, now we want to put our towels onto the deck chairs at 5 a.m. PDT, too!"
I'm not too worried though-I have received my stipend every month, sometimes sooner, sometimes later, once after a nudge.

Yeah, that's what I was going for, kind of.

When I read this, the first thing I thought of was the Titanic. It's probably appropriate... when Kiboe can't log in, you know this boat ride is almost over.

/me sings:
"Nearer, My Trout to Thee"

*goes searching for an iceberg.....*