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

had active garnishments or child support orders. Others had benefit deductions that changed when their employment status or coverage changed.

Some workers had recently transferred between facilities.

Some had received retroactive adjustments.

And some had payroll records that looked perfectly ordinary until the system encountered a specific combination of circumstances.

My old system had not been perfect.

No payroll system was.

But over ten years, I had built checks and reconciliations around the places where errors were most likely to occur.

Madison had removed several of those checks because she