Last Updated on February 6, 2022
The email didn’t exactly say, “Don’t get your hopes up,” but that was the gist of it.
This morning, everyone at work received an email stating that a payroll glitch would make it appear to anyone with direct deposit that we’d suddenly received double the normal paycheck for the previous week.  But rest assured, we’d only be paid once, not twice, and when the night’s processing was done at our banks, the phantom extra check would disappear as though it had never existed.
Naturally, I had to check my balance immediately, if only for the brief fantasy of making twice what I normally make for once.  The resulting feeling was definitely better than worrying about bills.
