overtime and gyros

 late in the afternoon i saw an i.m. from a manager saying i needed to stay late for another i-pay file. something about closed branches in california from a recent buyout due to unpaid utility bills. there was a check file, but only one in it and it was for a law firm in florida. so it wasn't what we were waiting for. i stayed two extra hours and then the manager, not mine who is out of office, said 'let's pack up'. we had waited long enough. i hadn't done overtime much since i started but this will be, most likely. and i was fine with eating a gyro at the nearby strip mall as it was time for the evening meal. by the time i started my drive home it was 8pm, so i didn't do much when i got home. i checked email and then i laid down for a while. then i went on a walk and found 84 cents. also notable about the workday was the shipment of check stock arriving before midday. i used a red appliance cart i had rarely used to finish off the shipment, the third cart used. then i emptied them when i had the time during the rest of the workday. i was not sure why we were asked to wait for the checks when the regular mail had been picked up already, as well as the last pick-up from the UPS box near the employee entrance. guess it was at the behest of a senior leader, that i had met only once. it may be a case of those checks will just roll over to the next i-pay file, an early one in the morning, due to needing to go through the approval process. it was the latest i had stayed at the office since starting there. the one nice thing about it was it being the first time at the gyro place. along with being able to chat with this manager at length. only other time we had the chance to do so was at the twins game in the company's suite in april. found out she likes to sing karaoke, and i spoke of doing this on a regular basis pre-covid. she also spoke of needing to walk her dog once getting home.