UPDATE:

Ok so I finally got in touch with the woman in charge of HR and she tells me off the bat she has no idea what check she's talking about and that no information has been submitted to her for a check to be cut. She then tells me that I need to talk to my manger(this should be good). SHe transfers me back and I get more of the same. Doesn't answer his desk phone or his cell phone. So I call the general line for the story and just my luck his little cover girl answers the phone and tells me to hang on one sec. She comes back and gives me the same story that I've been getting for the last month that he's waiting on the owner's approval.

This is getting ridiculous.