Dumb Questions and Observations about the paychecks AND the night guard schedules in FNaF 1, 2 and The Week Before

In FNaF 1, you work until 6am on November 12th and receive your paycheck after clocking out.

Presumably the same happened to Ralph the week before in…The Week Before, even though nothing for the end of Night 5/beginning of Night 6 indicates Ralph got his check.

And then there’s FNaF 2. You work until 6am on Thursday November 12th of 1987, and receive your paycheck after clocking out.

So you start your shift on Sunday and finish your shift on Thursday, while having the option to have Friday/Saturday off or receive overtime. Presumably, either no one works the night guard shift on Friday/Saturday, or the company has someone else fill in that role for a night or two.

Regardless, this must mean that Thursday is payday for Freddy’s, right?

Well no, because Ralph works Monday through Friday.

And by Friday night/Saturday morning (if Ralph chooses to do overtime), Ralph is told they STILL do not have a replacement for his shift yet.

This means at the earliest, Mike Schmidt is hired in less than 24 hours to begin working Saturday night/Sunday morning. At the latest, Mike could’ve started his schedule on Friday night/Saturday morning the following week since it appears that Night Guards don’t have a set schedule.

If that’s the case, then wouldn’t that mean if the guards have differing shift schedules, there is no payday at Freddy’s? It’s just the company writing checks on a daily basis to match whatever schedule each individual employee has?

Maybe that explains why Mike’s overtime check on Night 6, November 13th, is astronomically high.

Mike’s $4/hr rate x 1.5 (time and a half) is $6/hr. $6 x 6 hours is $36. $36 is supposed to be Mike’s Overtime check.

At $120.50, Mike got paid 334.72% more than what his overtime should have been.

Then again, Mike Schmidt is (more than likely but yet somehow still not confirmed to be) Purple Guy’s son. Special treatment was given his way because father could afford it for someone who lives in his shadow. /s

That would also explain why Jeremy’s overtime check on Night 6, Friday November 13th, is lacking time and a half.

Jeremy’s $3.35/hr rate x 1.5 (time and half) is $5.03/hr. $5.03 x $6 hours is $30.18. $30.18 is supposed to be Jeremy’s overtime check.

At $20.10, Jeremy only got paid 66.6% (oop) of his paycheck; he is missing 33.4% of his paycheck.

Then again…maybe Fazbear Entertainment deducted $10.08 from Jeremy for reparations from the bite of ‘87. Either that or someone in management desperately needed a crisp Hamilton, with a nickel and three pennies to spare. /s

So point being, trying to line up a payday for Fazbear Entertainment that is consistent is pointless because of the schedules being all over the place, on top of the company constantly over and/or underpaying employees. It could be 1993 again or 1994 or 1995 or-

Actually…has anyone suggested FollowMe to be in 1995, considering that’s when William Afton was springlocked in the Silver Eyes? Follow Me would HAVE to be after Freddy’s closed in FNaF 1, right? So FNaF1995 then?

😑 My brain, I smell train, hear toast. I may need to take a break from blowing up this subreddit with my posts. Cheers 🍻