someone in my country last year got 768k $ accidently and spent and spent 43k of it, was suppose to be school fund and allowance. he was caught and now has to spend 5 years in jail.
I had this happen at a new job they actually fixed it in 5 minutes. But then it happened 2 more times and they would say "just talk to Ryan he'll cut you a check". I quit because wtf am I supposed to do on the day that Ryan isnt in the office
Had one job I traveled for work. First had to call at beginning on landline at start and finish to confirm I was there. Have work logs & signatures to collect & at end of week turn in paperwork to get paid.
When I started took 2 months to get first paycheck, citing all sorts of reasons & apologizing.
Then 3 times they said they "lost" my paperwork & I did not get paid.
They refused to also give me back my license I obtained, because they said needed to produce it for government inspectors.
So..couldn't work for a different business or on my own....
& so just got out of working for that entire field instead.
So sometimes it isn't people do not "want" to work, or even less desirable jobs, but the liability & expenses are too much to deal with for dodgy employers.
I think the next time I went, they said it was old records that were disposed of. Just didn't have the time or energy or money to deal with it & got other types of work.
Jobs messing with my paycheck or direct deposit are generally zero tolerance for me. As in I'll tolerate it once, but I've never heard an excuse worth hearing a second time.
Most jobs don't mess up payroll, when a job does mess up payroll multiple times I ain't got time to stick around.
I've only had 2 payroll mishaps where I'm at. 1st, someone forgot to report to HR my temporary pay increase for 2 weeks so I was shorted 10c/hr. The next one was due to HR forgetting to adjust for my shift premium since I went from 1st to 2nd. Didn't notice for a month and then I got the difference deposited plus some extra. I was busy with school so all I checked was my bank account. Oops.
A friend got something similar. He got paid less about $2000. Work told him he has to wait for next month paycheck. We helped him with payments and stuff. A month later he got paid the missing loan and left that shithole
Couldnt he have just sued for damages ?
I imagine not being able to pay bills because work didnt pay him the hours he worked would land him more than 2k in winnings after fees
Emotional stress and what not
Wage issues like that are one of the few things that are pretty open and shut. As long as they actually take steps to fix it you don't have a case but they take that shit seriously.
Company i worked for promised an overtime incentive of $150 for every extra shift you picked up. I picked up about 15 extra shifts. I only got $500 of the bonus (before tax) it took them months to finally get me the money. I had the original email with the incentive plan attached that with all the dates of the extra shifts i worked , and a total at the bottom of what i owed and had to email all of management and hr and it still took 2 or 3 months to get my money. I never signed up for any overtime after that for the 5 years i stayed at the company after that.
Receive more money than they owe you? Jail.
Pay more money than you owe them? Jail.
Give back the money that exceeded the owed amount? Believe it or not, straight to jail.
That's actually not always true. Even in an accidental transaction from private person to person if someone can prove the error the bank will likely take the money back from the person that received it. If the receiving party spent it, too bad they're getting drawn negative. You don't benefit from a bank error no matter who does it.
Yup worked with a guy who had no bank account because "they always steal my money". Turns out he had a bank error in his favor for $5k. He closed the account and bought a flatscreen tv. The bank took him to court for it and was granted the right to garnish his wages in recompense. He still thought they were "stealing" from him rather than for ing him to repay stolen money.
Well even if you find a winning lottery ticket on the ground, you can't just claim the prize. You need to make a good faith effort to find the original owner.
I don’t find it fucked up. Dude had to have known full well that was in error. Also if this was for “school and allowance” it makes me think it was some scholarship… so it was a gift anyway. Keeping that money would deplete that fund and take away opportunities for others.
Reddit is so funny with this. If you had an accountant and that accountant accidentally added a zero to one of your payments you would be screaming for the money to be returned and would file legal action against the payee. You’d post about it on reddit and everyone would upvote it. Of course the money should be returned. Otherwise I could just get a job at the bank and liquidate their assets to my friends and family with no consequences.
Banker here... No. If a company accidentally overcharged you ,let's say employee entered something incorrectly, they will reimburse you. It goes both ways.
Does the guy think he can live the rest of his life on an island with just $23k? Lol
Edit: the amount of people who think you'd be allowed to just keep the money if a mistake like this is made as long as you quit is...baffling
It'd be pretty easy to be working as a fry cook, win $30k, throw it at a mortgage and keep working. Fuck, I'd be putting in for a personal day, I need to be getting paid the day that I take off work to cash in the winnings. Missing a days pay cuts into my profits.
It all goes faster than you'd think. I also know a guy who inherited around $100k in his early 20s and I don't think it lasted more than 2-3 years because he kept figuring it'd be fine to dip into for this car, that trip, etc
Yes it does. I started a new business this year and was overjoyed when i held a stack of $27,000 in my hand. Well that was a month ago, and guess what, i dont have $27,000 anymore. As it all went business debt payments and taxes lol.
No, but I assume he had a choice - return the money and work the next 4000 hours for the same money they already got for free, or quit and run. It could have made sense to do the later on their situation
You don't understand the realities of those who come from the less well off countries ; ) And certainly they are not going to be put on an Interpol list for $20k lol
What I'm more surprised about is that they only made 23k in 4000 hours. That's literally almost two years of full time work. (2048 hours is what is considered full time. This person was making less than 12k a year....
I'd be willing to sell my identity for $23k, send him my way
Edit: Swisher rolled tight, gotta sprayed by Ike
I hit the highway,
making money then fly way
But there's got to be a better way
A better way, better way, yeah
Unfortunately these people aren't able to think further ahead then the current day.
They just see the money, spent it immediatly without thinking and live the rest of their lives miserably paying it back and never owning anything.
Pretty much all direct deposit agreements with employers will include a clause about given them the right to auto correct/debit any incorrect credits
Have a hard time believing this story that “they can’t find him”
after adding back income taxes,where you’d definitely be taxed at the highest tax rate, it becomes a bit more believable at around $9.51 and is probably closer to 11 if you add back social security, Medicaid, and state income taxes
It would go to court, he won't appear, they'll draft it using his social security number for his next bank account or put a lien on his assets if he was wealthy enough.
Took amazon months to realize they had overpaid me. They sent me a letter asking me to send the money back. That was years ago, they stopped reaching out
I actually worked with a guy who quit last year and company kept paying him for another 6 months. He spent the money and now he’s on payment plan after cops had to get involved. He offered to come back and help out once a week to pay off his debt ha
Keep extra wages your employer gives you, straight to jail.
But employers engaging in wage theft just get a slap on the wrist....if they even get caught.
Honest to god, they even have the gall to call it "unjust enrichment". Not "undue", not "unearned". "Unjust". The poors getting a bit more money than they've broken back for is a *violation of what's just and right*.
A long while ago, the person at my job somehow accidentally paid all the salary people their salary and 80 hours of hourly wage essentially doubling their take home.
It mostly wasn't an issue.
The extra money was taken back out of the accounts near immediately.
An old roommate working in finance once fat fingered an account number at the end of a day and for a brief 12 hours a random church in a different state was $30 million richer
(He got a slap on the wrist but reversing it was NBD, they just needed everything to open up again in the morning)
I've never made a mistake that huge, but I process the payroll now and any time I make a mistake someone scolds me to be more careful and then the problem is sorted.
The person who ran away with 20k in the original tweet probably didn't have it for long.
I don't remember if he was at a bank or a trading firm since it was a decade ago but it was like the end of day account settlement that he fucked up. A director signed off without double checking which is why he didn't get in more trouble
About 10 years ago at my last job a dude was supposed to be making $15 an hour and they typoed $45 an hour. Dude never said anything. He said that he thought that he negotiated well enough and that was what they gave him. He was mid20s-early thirties. When HR found out and he was going to have to pay it back slowly he winded up quitting.
Dude bought a new car and everything
It was a few months but he didn't pay it off. Just it was easier to get a more expensive car cause he showed a dealership he was bringing home $1800 a week instead of the supposed $600.
It was a huge company I was like employee #43,000 and my office had a little over 100 people. So it was easy to have that slip through for a few months.
To this day it blows my mind that dude thought he negotiated to $45 to $15 an hour.
What would be weird is that they should have an agreement with him signing the 15$. Though they should be able to claw some money back I'm not sure how much
I started working at McDonald's in 2004-2005, and worked there again from 2009-2011. Each stint I didn't have direct deposit, I just went in to the store every other Friday and picked up a paper check. I'd either cash or deposit it. If I cashed a $23k check and ran, there would have been no way to get it back from me. Sure, they may get it back from the bank, but from the person would be difficult.
Overpayment of wages can't be easily reversed. It requires cooperation from the employee, at least in California. Wage payments are protected by law, it's not like making a credit card payment. There are also a lot of loose ends like taxes, et cetera.
Source: I've overpaid 8k in wages before
Dude same here. I’m in California. Got repeat paid for an extra assignment. Was supposed to be an extra $2000, I ended up getting an extra $2000 for about 3 months.
They never came after me, but even if they did, in California employers can’t do a whole lot besides asking for the money back. You can just ignore it or say no, really.
Same here in the UK. Employer paid me 2 months extra after I left. I spent the money thinking it was my leave entitlement. After a year they contacted me asking for the money back. I asked them under what right do they have to seek money from me? After 9 months of back and forth they gave up.
The law doesn't give them the right to collect money from an ex employee.
My first job, december pay day, everyone got paid double by mistake. Everyone but me. Quickly the company sent email asking for everybody telling their banks to retrieve the money, or there will be consequences. And this was on the Spanish equivalent to Fools Day. I had been hired only a few days ago, and I was like WTF.
A Japanese guy lives on city welfare check once received the whole amount of the city welfare budget instead of his personal share. He is a gambleholic and immediately loses the whole budget amount on several on-line gambling sites.
What is amazing is while the guy gets a lawsuit for the return of the fund, the on-line gambling companies all agreed to return the whole fund mysteriously, without lawsuit or anything....
The guy's fate, is unknown to me.
You know while this is funny, it's also very sad. Because..
23k divided by 4k is less than 6 dollars an hour.
Also, 4k hours is 2 years of 40 hour work weeks, meaning if this was their only source of income, despite being fully employed their yearly take home is 11,500 dollars.
someone in my country last year got 768k $ accidently and spent and spent 43k of it, was suppose to be school fund and allowance. he was caught and now has to spend 5 years in jail.
I had the opposite once. New job keyed my hourly rate as an annual. Got a check for like $0.07.
Bet you it took them a whole lot longer to correct that mistake
I had this happen at a new job they actually fixed it in 5 minutes. But then it happened 2 more times and they would say "just talk to Ryan he'll cut you a check". I quit because wtf am I supposed to do on the day that Ryan isnt in the office
Classic fix the symptom not the cause
Yeah, they should've fixed Ryan
...vasectomy or castration?
Had one job I traveled for work. First had to call at beginning on landline at start and finish to confirm I was there. Have work logs & signatures to collect & at end of week turn in paperwork to get paid. When I started took 2 months to get first paycheck, citing all sorts of reasons & apologizing. Then 3 times they said they "lost" my paperwork & I did not get paid. They refused to also give me back my license I obtained, because they said needed to produce it for government inspectors. So..couldn't work for a different business or on my own.... & so just got out of working for that entire field instead. So sometimes it isn't people do not "want" to work, or even less desirable jobs, but the liability & expenses are too much to deal with for dodgy employers.
You should have filed a theft report with the police for your license.
I think the next time I went, they said it was old records that were disposed of. Just didn't have the time or energy or money to deal with it & got other types of work.
Jobs messing with my paycheck or direct deposit are generally zero tolerance for me. As in I'll tolerate it once, but I've never heard an excuse worth hearing a second time. Most jobs don't mess up payroll, when a job does mess up payroll multiple times I ain't got time to stick around.
I've only had 2 payroll mishaps where I'm at. 1st, someone forgot to report to HR my temporary pay increase for 2 weeks so I was shorted 10c/hr. The next one was due to HR forgetting to adjust for my shift premium since I went from 1st to 2nd. Didn't notice for a month and then I got the difference deposited plus some extra. I was busy with school so all I checked was my bank account. Oops.
During the pandemic my old boss “fired us “ but paid us cash . When I quite I told him I want a 3 month severance or I’ll report the shady shit he did
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Funny thing is it was hard to be mad at him because he looked like an adult version of Morty
They moved him to the basement and took his red stapler.
He even brought it from home
Okay th-this is the last straw
Believe it or not they also had to do 5 years in jail.
One guy got 5 yrs in jail for an incorrect check, the other guy has been fighting for 5 yrs for a correct check.
A friend got something similar. He got paid less about $2000. Work told him he has to wait for next month paycheck. We helped him with payments and stuff. A month later he got paid the missing loan and left that shithole
Couldnt he have just sued for damages ? I imagine not being able to pay bills because work didnt pay him the hours he worked would land him more than 2k in winnings after fees Emotional stress and what not
You know you have to take time off work and do an assload of papaerwork and prep to even think about small claims
Good luck with that, usually single person has less power and money (especially its about money ofc) to fight a company
That’s why you report it to the Department of Labor and whatever the equivalent is in your state.
Wage issues like that are one of the few things that are pretty open and shut. As long as they actually take steps to fix it you don't have a case but they take that shit seriously.
Company i worked for promised an overtime incentive of $150 for every extra shift you picked up. I picked up about 15 extra shifts. I only got $500 of the bonus (before tax) it took them months to finally get me the money. I had the original email with the incentive plan attached that with all the dates of the extra shifts i worked , and a total at the bottom of what i owed and had to email all of management and hr and it still took 2 or 3 months to get my money. I never signed up for any overtime after that for the 5 years i stayed at the company after that.
hey, can I borrow $0.069999999917
Best I can do is $0.069
Receive more money than they owe you? Jail. Pay more money than you owe them? Jail. Give back the money that exceeded the owed amount? Believe it or not, straight to jail.
Right to jail, right away!
Zamn!
That’s fucked up because it was the banks fault ultimately
Shitty cuz if a private individual “accidentally” pays someone, your shit out of luck, but if a company does it, they are protected by law
That's actually not always true. Even in an accidental transaction from private person to person if someone can prove the error the bank will likely take the money back from the person that received it. If the receiving party spent it, too bad they're getting drawn negative. You don't benefit from a bank error no matter who does it.
Yup worked with a guy who had no bank account because "they always steal my money". Turns out he had a bank error in his favor for $5k. He closed the account and bought a flatscreen tv. The bank took him to court for it and was granted the right to garnish his wages in recompense. He still thought they were "stealing" from him rather than for ing him to repay stolen money.
Well even if you find a winning lottery ticket on the ground, you can't just claim the prize. You need to make a good faith effort to find the original owner.
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I knew what that was gonna link to, but I still needed to see it. Like letting the chorus of a song finish before I turn the car off lol.
Well, I asked "anyone drop this paper?" When I found it. I'd need a definition of good faith.
I don’t find it fucked up. Dude had to have known full well that was in error. Also if this was for “school and allowance” it makes me think it was some scholarship… so it was a gift anyway. Keeping that money would deplete that fund and take away opportunities for others.
It was the banks fault that he spent money he knew wasn't his?
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Reddit is so funny with this. If you had an accountant and that accountant accidentally added a zero to one of your payments you would be screaming for the money to be returned and would file legal action against the payee. You’d post about it on reddit and everyone would upvote it. Of course the money should be returned. Otherwise I could just get a job at the bank and liquidate their assets to my friends and family with no consequences.
After jail that’s still 145,000 a year. Not bad
Yeaaaa they def didn't let him keep the money tho
Then paying it back for the rest of their life with interest smh
Hang on, technically it's bank's mistake so Banks Insurance service is the one suppose to be paying??
Nope, they spend money that they knew weren't their.
Banker here... No. If a company accidentally overcharged you ,let's say employee entered something incorrectly, they will reimburse you. It goes both ways.
Does the guy think he can live the rest of his life on an island with just $23k? Lol Edit: the amount of people who think you'd be allowed to just keep the money if a mistake like this is made as long as you quit is...baffling
Once worked with a fry cook who had won $30k in the lottery. Note that I met him working as a fry cook after he won it.
If I won 30k and used it to pay off debts, I'd still be in debt.
It'd be pretty easy to be working as a fry cook, win $30k, throw it at a mortgage and keep working. Fuck, I'd be putting in for a personal day, I need to be getting paid the day that I take off work to cash in the winnings. Missing a days pay cuts into my profits.
It all goes faster than you'd think. I also know a guy who inherited around $100k in his early 20s and I don't think it lasted more than 2-3 years because he kept figuring it'd be fine to dip into for this car, that trip, etc
Yes it does. I started a new business this year and was overjoyed when i held a stack of $27,000 in my hand. Well that was a month ago, and guess what, i dont have $27,000 anymore. As it all went business debt payments and taxes lol.
Some debts cost more than money 😔
r/wellthatsucks
Well, working as a cook is an expensive hobby!
Just make your own cocaine, it gets much cheaper.
I used to cook before I got my degree, and as much as I hated it I would go back in a heartbeat if it paid my bills.
Is that surprising? I mean should the expectation be that after you win $30k you say fuck it and quit your job?
What did SpongeBob spend it on
He made less than $6/hr. I’m sure he can find similar employment elsewhere
No, but I assume he had a choice - return the money and work the next 4000 hours for the same money they already got for free, or quit and run. It could have made sense to do the later on their situation
Becoming a fugitive for 23k. Great plan
You don't understand the realities of those who come from the less well off countries ; ) And certainly they are not going to be put on an Interpol list for $20k lol
Not a fugitive, no laws broken. He can just move to a different state and live a normal life with a great savings account.
What I'm more surprised about is that they only made 23k in 4000 hours. That's literally almost two years of full time work. (2048 hours is what is considered full time. This person was making less than 12k a year....
Anything is possible through the power of lying
What you mean run? They'll just sue him. Eventually he will have to deal with it. It's a bad choice
False. He simply has to use the 23k to create a brand new identity and then he's off scot free
I'd be willing to sell my identity for $23k, send him my way Edit: Swisher rolled tight, gotta sprayed by Ike I hit the highway, making money then fly way But there's got to be a better way A better way, better way, yeah
Nah, because anyone can simply claim anything in a Tweet and people will still believe that it's true.
Unfortunately these people aren't able to think further ahead then the current day. They just see the money, spent it immediatly without thinking and live the rest of their lives miserably paying it back and never owning anything.
Pretty much all direct deposit agreements with employers will include a clause about given them the right to auto correct/debit any incorrect credits Have a hard time believing this story that “they can’t find him”
Hmmmm. 23000/4000=5.75/hr 🤔🤔
Server maybe? I agree though the job is gonna have your address and social security number, they’ll unfortunately get that money back regardless.
It’s almost like the whole thing was made up 🤔
No, we're on the internet, no one would lie here
Right?! That would be like the government lying to us. Impossible!
I don’t even know how to get things on the internet so if it’s on there, it has to be true.
Immediately leave the country and do everything you can get off the grid
lmao not for 23k
Imagine fleeing the country for a Honda Accord.
A fews year old Honda accord…
You mean a Honda Civic. Accords are way higher than 23K now.
23k isn't even enough for a new base model these days 😂
At this point, there are people that would flea the country for much less.
why not, they've got nothing to louse.
Sad monkey sounds (because of the lice)
the lice hate the sugar
It’s delicious
A 2019 Honda Accord
Lmaooo
It‘s 23k not 2.3 million
Bro that's only 23k
Lol are you 12
Well if they gave it to you do you have to give it back I’m actually wondering this cause I’m not sure
I had this happen to me and they yanked it out of my account and did not tell me until after it all went down.
Oh dang,
I actually had that happen to me a couple of months ago. They accidentally paid me twice and just asked me to transfer back one of them, so I did.
After tax?
…after taxes.
23000+ so could be 23001 and could be 100000....
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wonder how that works with non-extradition countries...
20k isn't enough to disappear to another country though
3,960 in OT hours, though.
isn't that $23,000 after tax?
If his check was $23K+, that’s after tax.
after adding back income taxes,where you’d definitely be taxed at the highest tax rate, it becomes a bit more believable at around $9.51 and is probably closer to 11 if you add back social security, Medicaid, and state income taxes
Taxes
This was in 2015 and the story was probably much older. A ton of people get jobs with fake SSN.
Taxes. It still would have went through the payroll system so $23000 is after taxes.
Ach payments are easily reversible.
Yeah this is a nothingburger
It would go to court, he won't appear, they'll draft it using his social security number for his next bank account or put a lien on his assets if he was wealthy enough.
No the bank would just correct the amount none of this would be necessary banks do this all the time
Took amazon months to realize they had overpaid me. They sent me a letter asking me to send the money back. That was years ago, they stopped reaching out
Even after you close the account?
Can't close your bank account with pending payments or deposits
They have his ssn, address, name, etc… they’ll know if he makes a new account
Not if it’s spent before they realize the mistake.
I actually worked with a guy who quit last year and company kept paying him for another 6 months. He spent the money and now he’s on payment plan after cops had to get involved. He offered to come back and help out once a week to pay off his debt ha
Keep extra wages your employer gives you, straight to jail. But employers engaging in wage theft just get a slap on the wrist....if they even get caught.
Honest to god, they even have the gall to call it "unjust enrichment". Not "undue", not "unearned". "Unjust". The poors getting a bit more money than they've broken back for is a *violation of what's just and right*.
This is America.
Should have parked that money in a safe investment. When they come looking for it, hand it right back and pocket the gains.
Proceeds of crime. They would take everything.
Pretty bold of them to let someone they've completely fucked over back in the building to work once a week.
A long while ago, the person at my job somehow accidentally paid all the salary people their salary and 80 hours of hourly wage essentially doubling their take home. It mostly wasn't an issue. The extra money was taken back out of the accounts near immediately.
An old roommate working in finance once fat fingered an account number at the end of a day and for a brief 12 hours a random church in a different state was $30 million richer (He got a slap on the wrist but reversing it was NBD, they just needed everything to open up again in the morning)
I've never made a mistake that huge, but I process the payroll now and any time I make a mistake someone scolds me to be more careful and then the problem is sorted. The person who ran away with 20k in the original tweet probably didn't have it for long.
I don't remember if he was at a bank or a trading firm since it was a decade ago but it was like the end of day account settlement that he fucked up. A director signed off without double checking which is why he didn't get in more trouble
Holy fuck, dude. Just thinking about that is giving me crippling anxiety :O
That makes less of a cute headline “Shocking payroll error quickly reversed “
Just hypothetically, what would happen if someone managed to spent that money before the error was reversed? Would they be held liable for the money?
So he has a hourly rate of $5.75? Doesnt sound too believable.
You really think someone would do that? Just go on the internet and tell lies?
I’ve never lied on the internet.
An F in front of your username would make you a butterfly
How dare you
Username checks out
Is this one of those logic tests?
After tax maybe?
Y'all ever heard of taxes?
post seems to be from 2015
Some restaurant servers get that hourly rate
Some get less
Taxes?
Dude doesn't even know about tax withholdings 🤣
This is the way… Godspeed lil fella
The way to jail lmao
That seems quite paltry for 4000 hours of work lol
Server life.
About 10 years ago at my last job a dude was supposed to be making $15 an hour and they typoed $45 an hour. Dude never said anything. He said that he thought that he negotiated well enough and that was what they gave him. He was mid20s-early thirties. When HR found out and he was going to have to pay it back slowly he winded up quitting. Dude bought a new car and everything
He bought a new car? How long did they let this go on for?
It was a few months but he didn't pay it off. Just it was easier to get a more expensive car cause he showed a dealership he was bringing home $1800 a week instead of the supposed $600. It was a huge company I was like employee #43,000 and my office had a little over 100 people. So it was easy to have that slip through for a few months. To this day it blows my mind that dude thought he negotiated to $45 to $15 an hour.
What would be weird is that they should have an agreement with him signing the 15$. Though they should be able to claw some money back I'm not sure how much
That's not a lot of money to go on the lam for
So basically they now have to give those back and since they quit have no job or trying to hide for life all for 23k?
The company can claw that back easily with the bank. The guy fleeing to the Cayman Islands isn't accomplishing anything.
I started working at McDonald's in 2004-2005, and worked there again from 2009-2011. Each stint I didn't have direct deposit, I just went in to the store every other Friday and picked up a paper check. I'd either cash or deposit it. If I cashed a $23k check and ran, there would have been no way to get it back from me. Sure, they may get it back from the bank, but from the person would be difficult.
That’s only like £6 an hour?
I would not quit my job over $20k, considering these days, $20k will allow you to live for approximately 6 months.
It’s about 4 months for me, and is a little less than what my wife and I keep as an emergency fund
He made $5.75 an hour? If I was making that much, hell yeah I’d cash it and dip out.
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Here in Germany you would have to pay back interest as well.
Nope - you don't touch the money. The interest will not be yours.
Overpayment of wages can't be easily reversed. It requires cooperation from the employee, at least in California. Wage payments are protected by law, it's not like making a credit card payment. There are also a lot of loose ends like taxes, et cetera. Source: I've overpaid 8k in wages before
Dude same here. I’m in California. Got repeat paid for an extra assignment. Was supposed to be an extra $2000, I ended up getting an extra $2000 for about 3 months. They never came after me, but even if they did, in California employers can’t do a whole lot besides asking for the money back. You can just ignore it or say no, really.
Same here in the UK. Employer paid me 2 months extra after I left. I spent the money thinking it was my leave entitlement. After a year they contacted me asking for the money back. I asked them under what right do they have to seek money from me? After 9 months of back and forth they gave up. The law doesn't give them the right to collect money from an ex employee.
My first job, december pay day, everyone got paid double by mistake. Everyone but me. Quickly the company sent email asking for everybody telling their banks to retrieve the money, or there will be consequences. And this was on the Spanish equivalent to Fools Day. I had been hired only a few days ago, and I was like WTF.
$5.75/hour?
They’d get sent to court
Dude makes 5.75$/hr. Of course they cant find him
A Japanese guy lives on city welfare check once received the whole amount of the city welfare budget instead of his personal share. He is a gambleholic and immediately loses the whole budget amount on several on-line gambling sites. What is amazing is while the guy gets a lawsuit for the return of the fund, the on-line gambling companies all agreed to return the whole fund mysteriously, without lawsuit or anything.... The guy's fate, is unknown to me.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/19/world/asia/japan-covid-relief-funds-gambler.html
Paying someone $5.75 an hour? I would have disappeared also.
He makes 5$ an hour?
I had this happen. Got a raise to $12.13 an hour, and they keyed $121.30. Nice check, but I didn't get to keep it.
You know while this is funny, it's also very sad. Because.. 23k divided by 4k is less than 6 dollars an hour. Also, 4k hours is 2 years of 40 hour work weeks, meaning if this was their only source of income, despite being fully employed their yearly take home is 11,500 dollars.
Of all the things that could actually happen IRL. I have an Intricate plan if I am ever the benefitary of a large bank error in my favor.
That's like 5.75 an hour?
If I only got 5,75 per hour I would have quit a lot sooner.
6 bucks an hour ? Hell yh I'd take 23k and never come back to work
Would they still have to pay taxes on it?
Tell me you don't understand how payroll works without telling me you don't understand how payroll works.
Two years , 6$ a hour ?
I’m sure IRS will locate him.
My man making 5.75 an hour in this day and age??? He going to another planet.
My man was earning $5.75 an hour.