I swear this is true. I got this email this morning
John,
Can you look at the code in SWF and see if you see a check on the 50 cent limit. I’m wondering if we could remove this restriction on the manual check process?
So, someone a decade ago, a different manager of the accounting department as well as all different staff in IT decided 50 cents was the least we would ever write a check for. Now someone sees the message ""Amount must be at least $.50", - Required Field" and not knowing what else to do, passes it on through three managers to me.
And, yes, I work in government. We've already spent at least $10 bucks of labor on this.
I'm guessing in both your case and mine no one cares and no one wanted to take ownership so the problem never gets addressed. It's truly dumbfounding though that someone in your case looked at the problem and still thought it was reasonable to chase people down for 50 cents. The stamp alone costs 49 cents not to mention the envelope and labor involved in processing it on both end. Penny wise and dollar foolish my first boss always use to say about stuff like this.