<prompt> Human: Anyone ever experienced this before? My employer just announced that they were going to skip the first bi-weekly pay period of 2018.They cite two reasons for this:1 First, they say they want to avoid paying us in advance of days worked. Which doesnt seem right because when I hired on with this company, I had two work two weeks before I got my first paycheck. 2 The company says that they have employees on different pay-cycles and skipping this pay period will help reduce administrative resources.Ive heard of companies skipping a bi-weekly pay period because some years every 11 years or so there are 27 pay periods vs 26 in a calendar year, but skipping this pay period means we would only have 25 pay periods in 2018.Needless to say, everyone at work is extremely disappointed. What would you guys do?Assistant: Youre not getting less money, youre just getting it on a new schedule. With this much advance warning you should be able to handle it unless you are running very paycheck to paycheck, in which case you now see the need for an emergency fund. At any rate I dont think that this is that uncommon.Human: Thanks Goober,Thats the thing. I feel like we are getting less money because there will only be 25 pay periods in 2018 but our bi-weekly pay is based on our annual salary divided by 26. Im not worried about running out of money, Im worried about working for free.  <response>: I dont think youll be paid less. You should either get a double paycheck on your first check of 2018, or have your annual salary divided by 25 instead of 26 so that the missing check is spread out throughout the year. 