court-ordered deductions, child support payments, and retroactive wage adjustments after contract negotiations.
I had worked through acquisitions, plant closures, snowstorms, system migrations, and two major banking changes.
I had spent Christmas Eve correcting a payroll file because a software update had misclassified holiday hours.
I had once driven to a hotel at midnight to help a plant manager resolve a timekeeping discrepancy before a union deadline.
And I had learned, through ten years of experience, that payroll was the one department where a small mistake could become a very large
