Update on my last post

At 9.45 am, last Friday, I left the workshop and headed for the place where I would find my boss. We had not yet received our pay for the month, and the staff were not happy.

On the way there, probably 5 minutes out from his offices, my phone beeped - sms from the bank to confirm my salary had been paid in. I call one of the guys back at the workshop, nothing yet for him. I called the office lady, same.

By the time I reached the boss's office, there were 4 confirmations of salaries received. I went inside, and sat with one of the guys there that I usually deal with, and waited to see if the rest were getting paid.

Slowly the messages came through, and finally, it seemed the issue had been resolved, so I didn't bother to go and see the boss, and just drove back to work. There I found that one of the guys didn't know if he had been paid. He does not have the banking app on his phone, and no airtime, so can't receive SMS's!

As it was now close to 12 midday (we work till 2pm on Fridays) and as we had all had to stress because of this late payment, I gave everyone the rest of the day of, and locked up. I sent the errant guy R10.00 airtime, and told him to find an ATM and check his balance, and to let me know if he had been paid.

I heard from him on Saturday, where he confirmed he had been paid, but into the wrong account. It seems he was with one bank, moved to another, informed the office, but they still got it wrong.

Anyway, all's well that ends well - we got paid, got off early, and are back at work to face another day / week / month.

Oh, and the upside is everyone at work thinks I'm the hero cause I got the problem sorted!