Check float used to work like that decades ago. Write a check to pay the first account from a busted account, knowing it would take up to 4 days to process. Before that crashed, pay it with a check from a third account, and so on until, hopefully, the actual money to pay would land in one account or the other.
Believe it or not, that was the main lecture from a business ethics prof, who spent days bragging about it. After that, there were few surprises at what happens in the business world.
Check float used to work like that decades ago. Write a check to pay the first account from a busted account, knowing it would take up to 4 days to process. Before that crashed, pay it with a check from a third account, and so on until, hopefully, the actual money to pay would land in one account or the other.
Believe it or not, that was the main lecture from a business ethics prof, who spent days bragging about it. After that, there were few surprises at what happens in the business world.