Is it true you can get your pay early? Curious.....but cautious.

druckmaggie · Member

Is it true you can get your pay early? Curious.....but cautious.

druckmaggie · Member

who knows.....maybe it works? My friend's never mentioned anything negative. i asked her and she said it really is just tips. it may be more of a Walgreens thing tho. was just wondering if anyone here's used it. i looked them up and did a little poking around the internet and i dont see anything negative on them....
maybe i'll just try it and let u guys know how it goes..... take one for the team. lol.

-- Edited by druckmaggie on Friday 8th of March 2013 01:51:53 AM

styles · Guru

looks like BS to me

Date: Mar 8, 2013

druckmaggie wrote:
Hi everyone. I have a friend who works at Walgreens and she's using this website called activehours.com . Their suppose to let you take out money for the hours youve worked before paycheck comes, and its free. we'll, i guess they take tips, but its up to you. its weird it kind of sounds too good to be true, but she says she likes it and been using them for a couple months now. I'm wondering if anyone at Kroger here has used it before? I've been at Kroger since 2009 and i've never heard of them.
btw i'm new ot the forum, hi!

-- Edited by druckmaggie on Thursday 7th of March 2013 02:46:29 PM

If there's no fee and they only rely on tips, how do they make any money? There's got to be catch.

SayWhat · Guru

There's always a catch somewhere. Before you borrow against yourself, why not set up a budget?

Date: Mar 8, 2013

SayWhat wrote:
There's always a catch somewhere. Before you borrow against yourself, why not set up a budget?

it's probably a scam but i gotta wonder how you budget when working at kroger? numbers of hours assigned are pretty random

SayWhat · Guru

Anonymous wrote:
SayWhat wrote:
There's always a catch somewhere. Before you borrow against yourself, why not set up a budget?
it's probably a scam but i gotta wonder how you budget when working at kroger? numbers of hours assigned are pretty random

I guess I haven't run up against that problem as I was full time within a few months of working for Kroger. But I honestly think everyone needs some sort of budget to work with or how else do you know where your money is going?

Date: Mar 9, 2013

Full time status isn't a regular occurence.

Budgeting is hard if I might have overtime one week, and 12 hours the next.

Payday loans for an optional tip has to be a scam.

druckmaggie · Member

Interesting.... i just found this article where they explain the tips thing...... http://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/2013/pay-what-you-want-finance-making-debut/

i guess they interviewed the CEO and he said he started this company because he didnt want his own employees in his old company having to go to payday lenders. he even talked about Walgreens and Pizza Hut employees in there, so i'm kinda thinking it must be legit.......

i'm not gonna lie, it would be nice to have some extra cash, some weeks they slashed my hours so much I can hardly make it to the next paycheck. its not that i dont budget, its just hard.