Just crap

Normally payday at work is every other Wednesday. Like a ritual, I arrive at the office Wednesday morning, login to my online bank account and bask in the soft glow of additional funding that has magically appeared in my account overnight. This week that ritual was interrupted, checking the account…wait…can’t be…no deposit…what? NO DEPOSIT?? (insert obligatory, you sure your still employed here? joke)

A little bummed out I go on with normal work, rumors abound at the office that people’s direct deposits also haven’t posted to their accounts. I’m a little less worried about it after hearing that. 4:45pm, about time to go home, check the account one more time…NO DEPOSIT!! Give me a break, other co-workers’ accounts have received their deposits. I give my bank a call, they say that they only process electronic transactions once a day at 7:30 am. Alright then its possible that the records didn’t get to the bank in time to make Wednesday’s processing run.

Fast forward Thursday morning…24 hour delay for my “ritual” … Still no deposit. I head over to the payroll office to ask what’s up. Saying its not their problem its must be the banks, but they’ll look into it anyway. A few hours later they report that everything is in order, the problem must be with my bank. Back on the phone with the bank…”Oh! We must have overlooked that posting, I see it here in the system. Shows that it came in yesterday and was just waiting for our approval.” Haha, the joke is on me. Someone must have been asleep at the bank.

Direct Deposit of payroll checks is a wonderment of technology and convience. When that technology breaks down its a wonder that life can continue. In the end I got my paycheck deposit. Finally, I can stop worrying about that crisis and move on to the next one.