>>op00to+(OP)
I’m surprised to hear that. Maybe ”denied by default” is a bit too evocative and not clear enough - I mean that if the payroll department stopped coming into work and managers stopped doing their payroll responsibilities, the payments themselves would stop very quickly. In the systems I have used the payments are generated automatically, but someone has to click “Approve” on them for them to actually happen.
My broader point was that these “the company forgot about me but I’m still getting paid” urban legends rest on the belief that there’s essentially a cron job with a list of salary numbers and bank accounts, and every week it automatically transfers the appropriate amount to each account. And that’s not an accurate picture of payroll.