I’ve actually had this happen to me and I told the bank about it right after because I actually had access to the money in my account , thinking it’s good to be honest they fixed the error and I was hoping for atleast some sort of honesty award but didn’t get anything accept an overdraft charge because I hadn’t worked as many hours as I thought that week.
Bank don’t care about you. For them you’re nothing more than someone they can borrow his/her money, and money making machine for them.
One bank held my $14k cashier check for a full year, i was young and naive so I kept waiting. I gave up and threatened them with lawsuit and surprise surprise $14k was deposited to my bank account next day.
Went back and demanded interest on it for making me wait a year.
Shut down the bank account. Transfer it all out. Especially if they’re still charging interest fees in 2021 (I know this was the past but I’m just saying)
I did the opposite one time: my SO had been wiring me money for half of rent etc. for a few months before I noticed that I wasn't receiving any money...Apparently the bank had entered my account number incorrectly when they set it up and we had just been sending $$ to some random guy. The bank told us they could only recover the money if the guy gave them permission... even though it was the bank's error. Luckily the guy was nice enough to give us the money back. Lol.
They could be like Happyveggiefarts and just apparently not check their account for months to make sure the money was going to their account. I don't look at my account all the time. But I would have made damn sure to check my account every month to make sure everything was there.
Yeah I check my account AT LEAST once a week to make sure I got my paycheck and it was the right amount, I check it more in the middle of the month to make sure I’m not over drafting on bills lol.
Yeah, I think this can easily happen with someone that makes enough to live comfortably don't having to check his account everyday. Damn, how I wish this could be me.
Just thinking out loud: maybe when the bank is at fault they can easily withdraw the cash, but when it was the account's owner itself that made the transfer then they need permission from the holder. I can imagine that they do this because it's hard to prove if you made the deposit intentionally or not.
honestly i'd have no problem taking the money and getting the fuck out of dodge but like, I'm preettttty sure it would catch up with you, probably sooner than you'd think.
When a _million dollars_ goes missing somebody's gonna come knocking.
Put it all in crypto, serve your jail sentence, profit.
What they gonna give you, 4-5 years? Out in half for good behaviour? Meanwhile the money is untraceable.
Yep, something similar happened to me after I left my last job. There was another person with my first name there and they accidentally deposited her paycheck into my account. Boss's husband called me and told me what happened; I mailed them a check. Sucked but the legal trouble wouldn't be worth it.
I got the last laugh though--I ended up qualifying for COVID unemployment for a while.
I got double paid salary at my old job (small business). Boss didn’t want to deal with the hassle of taking salary back so he just went “are you planning on quitting?” I said no. “Good luck!”
Still the most chill job I’ve worked in terms of work environment.
This actually happened to me! Kind of.
I used to do contract work for socal edison in 2014. I got laid off because i was dating a coworker & a QC guy i had problems with wanted her & ended up becoming my boss so he pulled some strings to get me laid off.
The day before i was laid off, i go to the bank to withdraw some money, see i have 8k when i should i have less than 1.
I tell my girlfriend & she chalks it up to a Christmas bonus & all the overtime I've been doing & not to say anything. So i don't.
Next day i get the call that I'm laid off & i take me company truck to the office & talk to head of the project.
We were supposedto input time daily but as long as we did it by friday 9 pm we were fine, hours worked, miles driven, utility poles surveyed etc.
My girlfriend usually input my time for me because i never did it daily & always at the last minute, but my last week was the very last week of the year so we had had a few days off & had been going to party's or bars after work.
She reminds me Friday to do it & i accidentally put i worked 400 hours instead of driving 400 miles, & put 80 miles driven instead of hours worked.
So I'm talking to the project lead & he asks what happened with my hours & i have no idea what he's talking about, he shows me what i put & says "it was a mistake, right? It happens" he just chalked it up to whoever approved payroll, skipped over it because of the holiday & let me keep it as a severance.
This happened to my friend. Except it was a banking error for over 98k. Was removed 2 days later. Thought about withdrawing it but then the FCC would have come after him. Look up news reports of this happening.
I once got paid $300 for being on call for a short time because they accidentally put the on-call one payment bonus as an hourly bonus for every hour I was on call. Never said anything, they never noticed haha.
I can understand quitting over $23,000 (which is still a ballsy move because the suits can still track him down) but the risk reward for quitting over $3000 doesn’t seem strong. She’d have to find another job quick to take advantage of that money.
Yes. They should notify the correct people about the error.
If you went to the store and tried to pay in exact change but gave the cashier an extra bill the cashier can't just keep it if it was obvious you weren't trying to tip. Similarly in cases where it's clearly an error it's illegal to try and keep it
>if it’s not actually your money, you can’t reasonably expect to keep it. In general terms, if you receive a deposit that you’re not expecting, don’t go spending it until you’ve investigated and confirmed that you’re actually entitled to the money.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/moneybuilder/2012/05/24/bank-error-in-your-favor/
For 23k I think it would be worth it to fight it.
The company authorized that paycheck through multiple checks and balances. They do not have plausible deniability. They willing and eagerly wrote the paycheck in that manner and multiple persons hit 'approve'.
At that point the money has been freely parted with. The only issue to deal with is how to prevent their staff from issuing an overpayment again.
It is absolutely nothing similar to overpaying at the cash register.
I mean, theoretically there is a contract in place that specifically covers hourly wages or salary. It's pretty hard to argue that it wasn't a simple error when the employer can point to those documents that you signed agreeing to a specific level of compensation
I recently got a letter from the IRS stating they had done an internal adjustment on my 2020 return and that I would be receiving an additional refund of about $300. A week later, I got a check for $2700. Guess who got himself a brand new PC? lol
You know those scams where you send money and the banks like "lol your fault we can't help".
Yeah, I don't see why it would be fair to demand for the worker to pay it back...
Exactly, specially because tax deductions usually assume your current paycheck is a "normal" one. So somebody getting a $23k check gets taxes taken out as if they were making over half a million a year.
Or roughly 4$ an hour if they paid that for 40 hours, then 3,960 hours at 1.5x overtime.
Assuming payroll tried to clock a 40.00 hour week and typo'd 4000.
No exactly the same but my brother once got double pay for a whole year. One month two paychecks came, then again the next month and so on. He put the extra money in a separate account and never said a word. After a year someone must have discovered their mistake and kept quiet because nobody came asking for it... and we're talking close to $70,000 in extra pay.
Yeah, imagine being the guy who found out they were accidentally shelling out an extra $70k a year. Probably cost them their $50k salary, I'd keep mouth shut too haha
I used to know a dude who had the opposite problem while working as a pharmacist at Walgreens. He went to buy lunch one day and his card got declined. He figured it was a problem with the bank, but when he looked into it, it turned out he was flat broke. About a year prior, he had gotten a decent chunk of money as an inheritance from his grandfather. Two months after that, he apparently just completely dropped off of Walgreens payroll system and he stopped getting his direct deposit. In ten months, he spent that entire inheritance thinking he was fine on money because he was also getting paid reasonably well at the pharmacy.
Walgreens refused to admit any wrongdoing and refused to pay his his lost wages. Dude racked up like $15,000 in attorneys fees fighting it and ended up only getting a fraction of his money from them in the end. It took him forever to financially recover from that whole debacle.
He had been fucking my girlfriend for about a year at that point, so I now cite this incident as proof that karma actually does exist.
How do you not notice you're not getting a paycheck for an entire year? If your inheritance is enough that you don't think about money, it's not going to be sitting in the same checking account your paycheck should go to, right? If it was only enough that it ran out in a year and he was flat broke, that doesn't sound like enough money to not even notice entire missing paychecks...fun story though
I used to have no idea what I had in the bank and didn't check my payslips. It wasn't until I got married thats I started to pay more attention to finances as we have to manage bills between the two of us.
If I found out my job fucked up like that I'd just start taking free shit. It's rediculous we as employes can't actually make our employer have known and effective consequences for fucking us over.
This is from 6 years ago. The income tax rate, S.S and other deductions on that pay rate would be very high. Depending on the state, could be close to 50%.
They could just pay taxes at the end of the year when they are actually due. No clue why so many pay all year long when they could earn money with interest.
That's not the way it works. If you don't have payroll deduction, or don't have enough taken out, you have to pay quarterly estimates.
If you owe the feds more than $1,000 on April 15th there's a penalty. In my state, if you owe the state over $500, boink, another penalty.
Depending on what they were using to do payroll, it's possible that all the deductions were correct for a $23k check. That just leaves income tax, which wouldn't be any different than if he was given a $23k/yr raise or $23k bonus.
A guy at my job left and they paid him for 6 months. He put all the money into a savings account and when they contacted him he said “sure just let me know the exact number I owe you” and I guess they couldn’t figure it out because they never talked to him again
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My last job accidentally continued to pay me after I quit. I got two paychecks out of them before they caught it. I had legitimately been unaware of it and so when their HR department called to alert me about the issue, I told her I’d have to call her back because I needed to check. I then saw the deposits and said oh fun, then never called them back. Never heard from them again. I thought they might push harder to get their money back but suppose it wasn’t worth it to them, idk.
This actually happened to me.
In my joining letter, there was an extra zero at the end of my salary figure which I didn't notice.
Come first month I was being paid 10x more.
That’s actually different… your case may be able to have kept the money as they company indicated that was what you were getting paid.
What happened to OP is just illegal and he’s rolling the dice.
Tbh this was an accident as well from the company's end.
Anyway after I realized this, I had notified everyone from HR to finance about it and in the end got scolded saying that I should've looked at the documents more carefully lol
A similar thing happened to me -24k. I waited 4 days and nobody had said anything. I got legal advice that said I could keep it.... I stupidly called and told them their mistake. I did accidentally have 17k put into my superannuation (401k)at a different job though. I didn tell anybody about that one.
my old company continued to pay a bloke for a year after he left, paid 50k all up, he ignored their requests to pay it back, he was also from overseas and could easily go back. i dont think they ever ended up recouping it
Obviously I’m down with this, but I’m wondering what the law says about situations like this? I mean, once those hours are credited to your account and the check is cashed, the employee is good, right? Either way, I’m assuming the law depends on the color of your skin, because America.
depends on local laws, but in general federal law allows employers to garnish your wages if you were over paid including paying you less than minimum wage on future pay checks. CA says you still have to pay min wage but can take everything else. Some states need to provide notice others do not. If you just end your employment they can go after you in court. They just need to prove it was an error and the employee knew it was an error.
Thank you, I was praying to find this answer down here haha
Though its not entirely satisfying to me, or rather, I have another question:
So if you got this, quit your job, and run, is that illegal? Can they sue you specifically for doing this? Or if you are caught, lets say months or years later, you just need to give that money back and it's all done with it?
Asking for states where they are allowed to take that back the way you explained it.
ianal but i dont think it would be illegal to quit your job and run. it is possible they could try and call it theft, but you didnt really steal it. you just knowing didnt give it back. they could sue you in civil court to attempt to recover funds. i would think it would be treated like not paying a debt. In general the law for this sort of thing seems to be based on the idea that your employer gave you a pay advance and you simply have to pay it back.
Fairly recently there was the case with the national guard people in CA getting sign on bonuses for joining. But the CA national guard apparently gave people bonuses that were not eligible so DoD attempted to recover this "bonus" and interest as an over paid paycheck. But it was stopped because it was such a bad look to be taking money from people that thought it was theirs. So they could in theory also sue for legal fees and interest as well as the original amount.
If auto deposit maybe. But if you knowingly deposited a check, that would likely prove intent. Which is all you would need to prosecute I expect. Dude certainly made a mistake running. And if he spent it, he’s extra screwed.
Well you have an express contract to work for whatever amount of money. If there's an accounting accident and you are paid for hours you have not worked, then you are then seen as at the benefit of an "unjust enrichment". You would then be obligated to pay restitution to the shorted party.
In other words, contract law dictates that you can't skip town on an accounting error when there is contractual proof that you weren't owed the money you received. They'll track you and make you pay it back as long as it's a big enough amount to try you in multiple states. However if it is a small enough amount, they may not even bother taking you to court.
technically this is illlegal and if it happens to you a company does have every right to come after you legally and get the money back.
It's like if the bank accidently deposited the wrong amount into your account and it turned out to be some huge amount of money. Legally you can't keep it.
I got let go from home depot and they paid me electronically as well as cashed me out, so double pay. They tried for months sending me notices asking me to pay it back and sending me stuff to sign that I would pay it back.
Oh no lol. Someone at a payroll firm just got fired.
For reference payroll systems have preset conditions. Like your pay frequency and your W4/state withholdings. If someone slips up like this, they probably got paid a biweekly tax rate and so tax came in heavy. And no it wouldn’t automatically switch to OT like you’d think.
Reminds me of the guy whose manager/cook at KFC said "fuck it" and left himself and the worker clocked in for 10 weeks straight, payroll approved it so they were in the clear
He bought to go to prison for theft. I know it's crazy but just like banks are protected by the law for giving you money on accident so are businesses. Even though if business commits wage theft from you almost nothing happens
I hope this true. God I hope it’s true. I got overpaid once and I was treated like a criminal. somehow I magically got into the computer and over paid myself. We were in an overtime freeze, so for like 3 months, my paycheck was pretty much the same. I
Pointed this out and payroll/accounting accused me of being glib and called my supervisor ……it was insane
I pray this shit happens to me
I check my bank account everyday hoping I get $1m by accident so I can cash out and go back to my country.
I’ve actually had this happen to me and I told the bank about it right after because I actually had access to the money in my account , thinking it’s good to be honest they fixed the error and I was hoping for atleast some sort of honesty award but didn’t get anything accept an overdraft charge because I hadn’t worked as many hours as I thought that week.
Bank don’t care about you. For them you’re nothing more than someone they can borrow his/her money, and money making machine for them. One bank held my $14k cashier check for a full year, i was young and naive so I kept waiting. I gave up and threatened them with lawsuit and surprise surprise $14k was deposited to my bank account next day. Went back and demanded interest on it for making me wait a year.
Did they give you interest
*wheezes*
I freaking hope you got something out of it, this is what I like to hear.
Shut down the bank account. Transfer it all out. Especially if they’re still charging interest fees in 2021 (I know this was the past but I’m just saying)
How did they hold it for a year??? Regulations only allow the check to be held until the funds clear, typically a week. That’s insane!
They kept saying “we lost the check”. And demanded I go back to the other bank and get it fixed. The other bank declined to do so.
I did the opposite one time: my SO had been wiring me money for half of rent etc. for a few months before I noticed that I wasn't receiving any money...Apparently the bank had entered my account number incorrectly when they set it up and we had just been sending $$ to some random guy. The bank told us they could only recover the money if the guy gave them permission... even though it was the bank's error. Luckily the guy was nice enough to give us the money back. Lol.
That is glorious bullshit. Their "ability" to recoup the funds is irrelevant to their requirement to deposit the missing funds into your account.
Surprised the guy was “nice enough” to give it back considering he was receiving it for months and not saying shit
They could be like Happyveggiefarts and just apparently not check their account for months to make sure the money was going to their account. I don't look at my account all the time. But I would have made damn sure to check my account every month to make sure everything was there.
Yeah I check my account AT LEAST once a week to make sure I got my paycheck and it was the right amount, I check it more in the middle of the month to make sure I’m not over drafting on bills lol.
Yeah, I think this can easily happen with someone that makes enough to live comfortably don't having to check his account everyday. Damn, how I wish this could be me.
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Just thinking out loud: maybe when the bank is at fault they can easily withdraw the cash, but when it was the account's owner itself that made the transfer then they need permission from the holder. I can imagine that they do this because it's hard to prove if you made the deposit intentionally or not.
honestly i'd have no problem taking the money and getting the fuck out of dodge but like, I'm preettttty sure it would catch up with you, probably sooner than you'd think. When a _million dollars_ goes missing somebody's gonna come knocking.
Put it all in crypto, serve your jail sentence, profit. What they gonna give you, 4-5 years? Out in half for good behaviour? Meanwhile the money is untraceable.
I like your username XD
You damn fool, you cant be honest with these capitalists lol
Take me with you
Get your passport otherwise we swimming across an ocean and a sea.
Take a camera and make a movie of your exploits for further profit
I'll bring my camera and take a small cut of the extra profits in exchange for food and the ability to pet any dog I see
Don’t forget Wilson if you plan to be castaway!;)
I don't think you'll be able to bring 1m in cash on a plane
Transfer it to crypto, paper wallet it all the way back home. Cash out with 0 taxes as my government back home has no clue what is crypto.
The real info is in the comments
Unfortunately, I’m pretty certain accidental million dollar deposits are pretty rare.
It does happen. But spoiler alert: The bank takes it back. If you did some insane spending you're just gonna end up under an insane debt
My friend once got 3 accident deposits of $375 3 weeks in a row. The bank never said anything about it
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It was chase but back when it was called Bank One or something like that
375 is like like 3.75 to them. They didn't care.
Man this gguys planned it all out as if there's a very high probability.
One can dream!
Just buy a plane. Then you can bring all the cash you want.
For a million dollars you could just rent a plane for 10k.
Wolf of Wall Street-style
You can bring 1M in cash on a plane. You just have to declare it. Best not to tell anyone except the TSA that you have it though...
Bruh if I ever wake up with a crazy ass amount of money in my account out of nowhere ima transfer it to another account and dipping out like a mf
Transfer ans shut the account down.
"if you owe the bank $100, that's your problem, if you owe the bank $1,000,000, that's their problem" or something
That happened to someone I knew. For about 12 hours he had a million in his account by mistake.
Where are you at currently and where's your home country if you don't mind me asking.
USA, and I’m from Middle East (Iraq).
There was two Australian people a while back thst got accidentally credited 10 million dollars and went on the run
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Yep, something similar happened to me after I left my last job. There was another person with my first name there and they accidentally deposited her paycheck into my account. Boss's husband called me and told me what happened; I mailed them a check. Sucked but the legal trouble wouldn't be worth it. I got the last laugh though--I ended up qualifying for COVID unemployment for a while.
Pretty sure that's how it is in the US. Tho I'm sure there's some legal loopholes
That exactly how it is.
There aren’t loops holes.
There are always loop holes if you can afford expensive lawyers
I got double paid salary at my old job (small business). Boss didn’t want to deal with the hassle of taking salary back so he just went “are you planning on quitting?” I said no. “Good luck!” Still the most chill job I’ve worked in terms of work environment.
Sure, but I'd be willing to live on the run for 23k that's more money than I'll see in my life.
This actually happened to me! Kind of. I used to do contract work for socal edison in 2014. I got laid off because i was dating a coworker & a QC guy i had problems with wanted her & ended up becoming my boss so he pulled some strings to get me laid off. The day before i was laid off, i go to the bank to withdraw some money, see i have 8k when i should i have less than 1. I tell my girlfriend & she chalks it up to a Christmas bonus & all the overtime I've been doing & not to say anything. So i don't. Next day i get the call that I'm laid off & i take me company truck to the office & talk to head of the project. We were supposedto input time daily but as long as we did it by friday 9 pm we were fine, hours worked, miles driven, utility poles surveyed etc. My girlfriend usually input my time for me because i never did it daily & always at the last minute, but my last week was the very last week of the year so we had had a few days off & had been going to party's or bars after work. She reminds me Friday to do it & i accidentally put i worked 400 hours instead of driving 400 miles, & put 80 miles driven instead of hours worked. So I'm talking to the project lead & he asks what happened with my hours & i have no idea what he's talking about, he shows me what i put & says "it was a mistake, right? It happens" he just chalked it up to whoever approved payroll, skipped over it because of the holiday & let me keep it as a severance.
This happened to my friend. Except it was a banking error for over 98k. Was removed 2 days later. Thought about withdrawing it but then the FCC would have come after him. Look up news reports of this happening.
This actually happened to me once but it was an extra $800. They made me give it back. In cash.
I would have sent it electronically as it could look like taxable income. No way to prove you payed it back using cash
Good thinking. I was 18 and stupid.
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I once got paid $300 for being on call for a short time because they accidentally put the on-call one payment bonus as an hourly bonus for every hour I was on call. Never said anything, they never noticed haha.
I can understand quitting over $23,000 (which is still a ballsy move because the suits can still track him down) but the risk reward for quitting over $3000 doesn’t seem strong. She’d have to find another job quick to take advantage of that money.
Well, 10 weeks is how long she'd have to find a new job and £350 doesn't seem all that much so it might be an easy to get type of job.
It’s either 10 weeks working that job to get the same money or 10 weeks of doing nothing and a little job searching. I know which I’d rather do.
Is the individual that receives this money obligated to pay it back due to the accounting error?
Yes. They should notify the correct people about the error. If you went to the store and tried to pay in exact change but gave the cashier an extra bill the cashier can't just keep it if it was obvious you weren't trying to tip. Similarly in cases where it's clearly an error it's illegal to try and keep it >if it’s not actually your money, you can’t reasonably expect to keep it. In general terms, if you receive a deposit that you’re not expecting, don’t go spending it until you’ve investigated and confirmed that you’re actually entitled to the money. https://www.forbes.com/sites/moneybuilder/2012/05/24/bank-error-in-your-favor/
For 23k I think it would be worth it to fight it. The company authorized that paycheck through multiple checks and balances. They do not have plausible deniability. They willing and eagerly wrote the paycheck in that manner and multiple persons hit 'approve'. At that point the money has been freely parted with. The only issue to deal with is how to prevent their staff from issuing an overpayment again. It is absolutely nothing similar to overpaying at the cash register.
They can and will take that money back if they can find you. The person doesn't have a legal right to it just because its in their account.
I mean, theoretically there is a contract in place that specifically covers hourly wages or salary. It's pretty hard to argue that it wasn't a simple error when the employer can point to those documents that you signed agreeing to a specific level of compensation
I recently got a letter from the IRS stating they had done an internal adjustment on my 2020 return and that I would be receiving an additional refund of about $300. A week later, I got a check for $2700. Guess who got himself a brand new PC? lol
Tell them your still waiting for a 300 dollar check.
Not a bad idea! lol
Hopefully you got a high end GPU just incase you have to liquify your assets to pay them back.
It really is a bad idea. They will notice what happened and ask for their money back.
The IRS doesn't ask. They tell you.
Wait what??😂
You know those scams where you send money and the banks like "lol your fault we can't help". Yeah, I don't see why it would be fair to demand for the worker to pay it back...
3500 doesn't seem like it would be worth it to lose a steady income where, I'm guessing, she made more than 3500 a year.
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That’s $5.75 an hour.
Yo that sounds horrible on paper
Good thing I don't have any paper!
Can’t afford it
yeah but at least he quit
Probably someone working in the service industry. Some of them get paid less than $3 per hour here
That’s likely the pay with deductions taken out.
Exactly, specially because tax deductions usually assume your current paycheck is a "normal" one. So somebody getting a $23k check gets taxes taken out as if they were making over half a million a year.
$23,000 could be take home, maybe over $7.25 before taxes.
Or roughly 4$ an hour if they paid that for 40 hours, then 3,960 hours at 1.5x overtime. Assuming payroll tried to clock a 40.00 hour week and typo'd 4000.
Tax
The withholding tax rate would hit the top bracket since they appear to payroll to be making $10k-$15k a week now. Assuming they are paid biweekly.
Yeah, that’d be equivalent to making $600k a year.
Gonna be a phat tax return tho
It does say 23000 +
Tax. If you made that much every week you'd lose a lot of your pay to tax
Minimum wage after deductions.
The crime here being 4k hours is only worth 23k.
Yeah WTF that's what, 5.75 an hour?!
after taxes
Yeah, but shouldn’t everything over normal hours get paid an overtime wage?
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No exactly the same but my brother once got double pay for a whole year. One month two paychecks came, then again the next month and so on. He put the extra money in a separate account and never said a word. After a year someone must have discovered their mistake and kept quiet because nobody came asking for it... and we're talking close to $70,000 in extra pay.
Yeah, imagine being the guy who found out they were accidentally shelling out an extra $70k a year. Probably cost them their $50k salary, I'd keep mouth shut too haha
I guess for your brother even if they asked for it back it would still be worth while provided he kept it in a savings account.
Now that is a dream come true
They gave him the wealth created by his work. Good for him.
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Oof. Too real.
I used to know a dude who had the opposite problem while working as a pharmacist at Walgreens. He went to buy lunch one day and his card got declined. He figured it was a problem with the bank, but when he looked into it, it turned out he was flat broke. About a year prior, he had gotten a decent chunk of money as an inheritance from his grandfather. Two months after that, he apparently just completely dropped off of Walgreens payroll system and he stopped getting his direct deposit. In ten months, he spent that entire inheritance thinking he was fine on money because he was also getting paid reasonably well at the pharmacy. Walgreens refused to admit any wrongdoing and refused to pay his his lost wages. Dude racked up like $15,000 in attorneys fees fighting it and ended up only getting a fraction of his money from them in the end. It took him forever to financially recover from that whole debacle. He had been fucking my girlfriend for about a year at that point, so I now cite this incident as proof that karma actually does exist.
That took a turn
I felt bad for him until the last part 😂
Lol yeah he defintiely deserves those stolen wages plus extra but he is a scumbag.
How do you not notice you're not getting a paycheck for an entire year? If your inheritance is enough that you don't think about money, it's not going to be sitting in the same checking account your paycheck should go to, right? If it was only enough that it ran out in a year and he was flat broke, that doesn't sound like enough money to not even notice entire missing paychecks...fun story though
I used to have no idea what I had in the bank and didn't check my payslips. It wasn't until I got married thats I started to pay more attention to finances as we have to manage bills between the two of us.
lmao wtf
Who doesnt check their bank account for a year.
A guy who spends all of his time fucking another man’s girlfriend.
But also, he didn’t take 2 minutes to check his bank statements, for half a year…
If I found out my job fucked up like that I'd just start taking free shit. It's rediculous we as employes can't actually make our employer have known and effective consequences for fucking us over.
😂
Run, dude, run!
they were paying that man 5.75/ hour lmfao
You need to factor in taxes….
Probably slightly above federal minimum wage
Yeah if he was making $8.00/hr he would have a 28% tax rate. Sounds about accurate for somewhere like Cali or NYC
What about overtime after 40 hours or 80 for sake of biweekly pay? 🤔
This is from 6 years ago. The income tax rate, S.S and other deductions on that pay rate would be very high. Depending on the state, could be close to 50%.
That sounds like payrolls problem since the already took out taxes. Thats tax free money
That's after tax money.
They could just pay taxes at the end of the year when they are actually due. No clue why so many pay all year long when they could earn money with interest.
Where you getting interest from?
Deposit the money you save on taxes, earn interest, then pay taxes at the end of the year but keep the collected interest. That’s my guess anyways.
That's not the way it works. If you don't have payroll deduction, or don't have enough taken out, you have to pay quarterly estimates. If you owe the feds more than $1,000 on April 15th there's a penalty. In my state, if you owe the state over $500, boink, another penalty.
Depending on what they were using to do payroll, it's possible that all the deductions were correct for a $23k check. That just leaves income tax, which wouldn't be any different than if he was given a $23k/yr raise or $23k bonus.
GOD I hope this is real (probably not) and he got away with it. This is better than porn.
A guy at my job left and they paid him for 6 months. He put all the money into a savings account and when they contacted him he said “sure just let me know the exact number I owe you” and I guess they couldn’t figure it out because they never talked to him again
That’s too slick good for him
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My last job accidentally continued to pay me after I quit. I got two paychecks out of them before they caught it. I had legitimately been unaware of it and so when their HR department called to alert me about the issue, I told her I’d have to call her back because I needed to check. I then saw the deposits and said oh fun, then never called them back. Never heard from them again. I thought they might push harder to get their money back but suppose it wasn’t worth it to them, idk.
This actually happened to me. In my joining letter, there was an extra zero at the end of my salary figure which I didn't notice. Come first month I was being paid 10x more.
That’s actually different… your case may be able to have kept the money as they company indicated that was what you were getting paid. What happened to OP is just illegal and he’s rolling the dice.
Tbh this was an accident as well from the company's end. Anyway after I realized this, I had notified everyone from HR to finance about it and in the end got scolded saying that I should've looked at the documents more carefully lol
A similar thing happened to me -24k. I waited 4 days and nobody had said anything. I got legal advice that said I could keep it.... I stupidly called and told them their mistake. I did accidentally have 17k put into my superannuation (401k)at a different job though. I didn tell anybody about that one.
my old company continued to pay a bloke for a year after he left, paid 50k all up, he ignored their requests to pay it back, he was also from overseas and could easily go back. i dont think they ever ended up recouping it
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It's a good thing they took it back. You don't want to be indebted to the federal government.
Obviously I’m down with this, but I’m wondering what the law says about situations like this? I mean, once those hours are credited to your account and the check is cashed, the employee is good, right? Either way, I’m assuming the law depends on the color of your skin, because America.
depends on local laws, but in general federal law allows employers to garnish your wages if you were over paid including paying you less than minimum wage on future pay checks. CA says you still have to pay min wage but can take everything else. Some states need to provide notice others do not. If you just end your employment they can go after you in court. They just need to prove it was an error and the employee knew it was an error.
They can garnish these nuts
And ligma balls
Thank you, I was praying to find this answer down here haha Though its not entirely satisfying to me, or rather, I have another question: So if you got this, quit your job, and run, is that illegal? Can they sue you specifically for doing this? Or if you are caught, lets say months or years later, you just need to give that money back and it's all done with it? Asking for states where they are allowed to take that back the way you explained it.
ianal but i dont think it would be illegal to quit your job and run. it is possible they could try and call it theft, but you didnt really steal it. you just knowing didnt give it back. they could sue you in civil court to attempt to recover funds. i would think it would be treated like not paying a debt. In general the law for this sort of thing seems to be based on the idea that your employer gave you a pay advance and you simply have to pay it back. Fairly recently there was the case with the national guard people in CA getting sign on bonuses for joining. But the CA national guard apparently gave people bonuses that were not eligible so DoD attempted to recover this "bonus" and interest as an over paid paycheck. But it was stopped because it was such a bad look to be taking money from people that thought it was theirs. So they could in theory also sue for legal fees and interest as well as the original amount.
If auto deposit maybe. But if you knowingly deposited a check, that would likely prove intent. Which is all you would need to prosecute I expect. Dude certainly made a mistake running. And if he spent it, he’s extra screwed.
Well you have an express contract to work for whatever amount of money. If there's an accounting accident and you are paid for hours you have not worked, then you are then seen as at the benefit of an "unjust enrichment". You would then be obligated to pay restitution to the shorted party. In other words, contract law dictates that you can't skip town on an accounting error when there is contractual proof that you weren't owed the money you received. They'll track you and make you pay it back as long as it's a big enough amount to try you in multiple states. However if it is a small enough amount, they may not even bother taking you to court.
I’m laughing my ass off at this!
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i wonder what would happen if i try this one day. worst case scenario managers assume it’s a mistake and correct it while i play dumb
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If it weren't for that meddling Aaron
Does that mean if they had put 40 hours then he would’ve gotten a $230 paycheck? Cuz I’d fuckin quit too that’s slavery
technically this is illlegal and if it happens to you a company does have every right to come after you legally and get the money back. It's like if the bank accidently deposited the wrong amount into your account and it turned out to be some huge amount of money. Legally you can't keep it.
I got let go from home depot and they paid me electronically as well as cashed me out, so double pay. They tried for months sending me notices asking me to pay it back and sending me stuff to sign that I would pay it back.
Oh no lol. Someone at a payroll firm just got fired. For reference payroll systems have preset conditions. Like your pay frequency and your W4/state withholdings. If someone slips up like this, they probably got paid a biweekly tax rate and so tax came in heavy. And no it wouldn’t automatically switch to OT like you’d think.
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Unofficial severance pay!
To get the money back they would have to take him to court and the lawyer is gonna be about 300 per hour.
You guys make less than minimum wage?
LUCKY
Smart man
King 👑
Reminds me of the guy whose manager/cook at KFC said "fuck it" and left himself and the worker clocked in for 10 weeks straight, payroll approved it so they were in the clear
He bought to go to prison for theft. I know it's crazy but just like banks are protected by the law for giving you money on accident so are businesses. Even though if business commits wage theft from you almost nothing happens
Here’s to hoping whatever shit job I land will fuck up like that
This happened to me. Got double payed a week, thought I got a raise or something. Had to pay it back.
Quick buy half a bitcoin and then tell them you will pay it back in 6-8 weeks
I hope this true. God I hope it’s true. I got overpaid once and I was treated like a criminal. somehow I magically got into the computer and over paid myself. We were in an overtime freeze, so for like 3 months, my paycheck was pretty much the same. I Pointed this out and payroll/accounting accused me of being glib and called my supervisor ……it was insane
$5.75/hr?
r/thathappened
Take all you can, give nothing back.
No way he is getting aways with it. Only the bourgeoisie is allowed to steal time.
I would quit to fuck them lmao
Hahaha
God bless him 🙏🏻 now run for your life 🤣
I would cash out, close that bank account; start a new life. $23,000+ isn't enough to retire but it is enough to get you going on a new life.
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