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Can you please explain why you normalize deviance and shoddiness? We have an issue here - business runs on trust, and crooks and sloppiness reduce the will to engage in commerce.

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I think people are reacting to your suggestion that employees should report their employers for a circumstance that was entirely, 100% out of the hands of the employer.

To be clear, this isn’t about employers using SVB. This is because Rippling, a payroll vendor, uses SVB to transact payroll on behalf of customers.

This was entirely out of the control of the employer, most of which are scrambling along with Rippling to make employees whole ASAP.

Employees have no choice and no insight into what contractor their employer outsources payroll and taxes to. Unless the employer is liable for trouble that their contractor caused there will be all sorts of perverse incentives - it has happened before that the cheap payroll contractor did not pay taxes although they said they would. The agency of choice and the liability must be with the employer, else all sorts of undesirable things will happen.

Employees also have no choice in which courier their employer chooses to send mail, but it would be a bit egregious to report them because a FedEx truck crashed and their letter was delayed for a day or two.

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