My Boss Fired Me After 10 Years of Running Payroll for 12,000 Workers—72 Hours Later, 1,237 Employees Had No Paycheck

I think we’re going to get along.”

For the first time in months, I felt excited about my work again.

Not because I needed to prove Harold wrong.

Because I had found a place where experience was treated as an asset rather than an expense to be eliminated.

Chapter Twenty: The Real Meaning of Those 1,237 Paychecks

I sometimes think about the 1,237 employees who missed their wages that Monday.

I don’t know all their names.

I don’t know what each person had planned to pay that day.