Not the 2nd!!!

Shit! I have just remembered Sasha’s (a very good friend I know through work) birthday. I figured I had better get online and e-mail her at least. It was whilst firing up the laptop that I suddenly twigged, what is today’s date?! I grabbed my phone and pushed down on the joystick waiting for the screen to power up and reveal the date and yes, there it was I had forgotten one of my best mates birthdays! As you can see above it is the 3rd, not the 2nd. Bugger! I swear this happens when you’re not working, you lose track of time, sanity and any form of normality you may or may not have had in the first place. I still sent her a belated birthday message by the ever-so faithful email system. Boy am I a crap friend or what?!
I decided that whilst I was online I had better check what appalling state my bank balance was in. After logging on, I had to do a double take! I had nearly £300 more than I had expected! Which was a very pleasant surprise considering the fact I didn’t even know what day it was five minutes ago! I loaded up the transaction page to find out where this mysterious money had come from, it was work, despite only paying me two weeks ago! The company had made major cock ups in the past whereby they had overpaid many employees, resulting in them having to pay back every single penny of the already spent money. I have had to deal with most of them, and believe me, it was not pretty. Now it was possibly happening to me and I wanted answers, fast!
I got on the phone to payroll and thoroughly confused the poor administrator on the other end of the phone, She ended up having to ask someone else and then read to me what had been written on my file. It turns out that this payment was to correct a previous cock up, sorry under-payment! Two weeks ago on the Christmas pay run, I looked at my payslip to discover that I was only being paid a third of what I had normally been getting whilst on sick leave. The company have obviously now realised their mistake and have corrected it, however still leaving me one day out of pocket. I was told that this was due to a missing sick note for just one day! This seems completely bizarre as it was for a Tuesday despite me always getting my sick notes to run from the Monday.