In my first company, when we set up payroll we had to assign employee numbers. Since I was setting it up I wanted to be employee #0 to see what would happen.

In my first company, when we set up payroll we had to assign employee numbers. Since I was setting it up I wanted to be employee #0 to see what would happen. The payroll company was smarter: the numbers had to start with 1, which was much less interesting.