People that have worked outside of Mineral County School District know that direct deposit is meant to be a mundane and unremarkable task that is supposed to take only a few minutes to complete. Usually, you sign up, give a voided check, and off you go. That is unless you Hope Blinco on the case to intentionally inconvenience people.

The rarity of a pre-note that is $0.00 is astounding. In fact, despite holding numerous higher profile jobs in my past, I have never heard of such a thing. It entails chasing the bank via phone into the darkest depths of their technical staff to find. Most tellers will tell you that $0.00 is nothing and therefore doesn’t exist.

When I worked at the school I questioned this process. I thought surely was some odd glitch within the Tyler Technologies system. What I ultimately found is the HR gargoyle does it intentionally. The reason why is quite remarkable in my opinion.

She does a pre-note of $0.00 because she honestly believes that career criminals seek out the uber wealthy Mineral County School District to heist $0.01 per pay period for their entire career, allowing them retire comfortably with all those pennies. Clearly Hope Blinco can’t do basic math because she could easily figure out that a penny a payday is hardly a heist.

I addressed the issue with Andre Ponder, but he of course was too busy looking in the mirror to both with the issue. I pointed out that there was an easily solution to her concern of the penny bandits. The solution wold be for Human Resources/Payroll to do their job and follow up with people. The reason why a large portion of the population at the school doesn’t verify their deposit is because unless you pack a lunch to camp out on the phone, you will never find a deposit for nothing.

This is yet another example of how an office gargoyle spends more time avoiding work than doing what we the taxpayer foots the bill for.