<p><pre><code>    Then I got to the final footnote. That kind of Kafka-esque bullshit is what 
    keeps me working in startups.
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While I agree that big companies can have weird Kafka-esque bureaucracy, they&#x27;re still generally a lot better at record-keeping than startups. I&#x27;ve never had a big company ask me if I could go without pay for a couple of weeks while they waited to &quot;sort out my payroll paperwork&quot;. I did eventually get the back pay, but it was pretty tense for a couple of weeks, as I waited and wondered if I&#x27;d made a terrible mistake in quitting my work for a large corporation to go work for this startup.