The good news is the problem has been identified.

The bad news is it's a bank problem and there is nothing we can do about it.

Now, try telling two CEOs this.

Their solution was: can we throw money at it?

No sirs. We cannot throw money (that we currently can't acces due to a bank outage) at the bank to make their outage go faster.

They weren't happy with our solution of: people keep their receipts of things they have to buy using personal accounts and send us scans/photos of them. Then we reimburse from our secondary account that has been set up just for this sort of reason until the problem is fixed at our main bank within the next couple hours.

What do you want from us????

miracles that cost them no money

The majority of the issue has been resolved except for a couple cards. Who were already over their limit and was actually a separate issue.

But we've made payments to clear those up because we want a fresh start on Monday

And we basically did nothing past send out a company wide email alerting people to the fact that the system was down and to save any receipts they had to pay from personal accounts.

Then a second email to advise things should be working now, but if not to keep using personal accounts over the weekend. With the promise to pay them all back on Monday.

LOL can we throw money at it? Such a rich people question. The bank already has all your money, they'll gladly take more but it won't solve anything faster

Two emails that almost no one read and most of my day has been spent regurgitating what was written in the email

Okay, so their solution was a BIT more sophisticated than that, but the end result was: how can money fix this money problem

Which is more amusing to write in a quick plurk

Oh and I made a special payment to pay back everyone who was using their personal accounts for payment through the day today.

Why so many of you spending monies?!???!

So many work lunches! I want to be part of these work lunches!!!

LOL so many people being like, if we do it today it'll get lost in all the paperwork and noone will realised I wasn't supposed to