their wages.
And the two people sitting across from me had just decided that paying those workers was essentially an exercise in data entry.
My name is Eleanor Brooks. For ten years, I had been responsible for payroll operations at Granite Industrial Group, a manufacturing and logistics company with facilities throughout Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and West Virginia.
I had processed wages for factory workers, truck drivers, warehouse employees, maintenance technicians, supervisors, and office staff.
I had managed six collective bargaining agreements, seventeen benefit plans, rotating shifts, hazardous-duty premiums, overtime calculations,