I'm usually diligent to the point of obsessive paranoia about all matters financial, but I pulled a boner last night. I was making an online payment and put in the wrong invoice number. In effect, I paid someone else's bill. Awesome, self. Way to prove your competence.
Fortunately for my account and my dignity, the person who processes the payment noticed that the bill I had inadvertently paid had already been paid by the rightful holder, and, rather than process the payment as is, emailed to ask about the discrepancy. We called them on the telephone and got everything sorted, and I don't have to look like a dolt to my bank or the bean counter.
May the eagle-eyed bookkeeper be richly rewarded.
Fortunately for my account and my dignity, the person who processes the payment noticed that the bill I had inadvertently paid had already been paid by the rightful holder, and, rather than process the payment as is, emailed to ask about the discrepancy. We called them on the telephone and got everything sorted, and I don't have to look like a dolt to my bank or the bean counter.
May the eagle-eyed bookkeeper be richly rewarded.
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