That psychological addiction can be rough, fam. It affects some more than others. I've quit more than a couple times. Hope you're doing well and holding strong.
God, what shitty verbiage. It's so hard to decipher their intent in that last line. Like, there's no way they read that and said, "Yep, clear as day. No way to misinterpret that. There exists no other combination of words that could convey our intent more clearly."
In the U.S., most salary jobs are spoken about in annual terms. Job listing's list annual salary, offer letters list annual pay, my employee portal lists annual pay, etc. My pay stubs are biweekly though. Pretty much nothing is ever described in monthly terms, at least not that I've ever seen.
Language is a complicated and very fluid social construct. What means one thing somewhere might mean something different somewhere else, even if the same language is spoken in both places. Both usages of the word are correct, and it's both the responsibility of to the speaker and listener to understand each other. It's confusing, but that's how things are in the real world. Of course you can say "America" to refer to the continents, and if that's what's dictated by social contract where you're from, then more power to you. I'm just saying that you can't judge an entire nation of people based off the colloquial usage of a word (not that you were, I'm referring to the person I responded to).
You're definitely being insufferable right.