20 years ago I was the office manager for a now-defunct bookstore chain and one of my employees was underpaid $200. Keep in mind this was a part-time college student so this was virtually her entire check. After verifying that I entered the hours correctly I contacted payroll at the main headquarters and they basically said yeah we screwed up we'll put it on her next check. Nope. I gave her $200 out of the petty cash drawer and put a note in there stating what I did. They had an absolute fit but as I was leaving soon anyway there wasn't much they could do. She did pay the money back when she got it in her next check like I knew she would because she was a good person.
What is it with companies thinking, "Hay if we screw up, you gotta wait for the fix, we'll get to it, when we get to it" But as soon as you mess up or it's something that benefits you: "Oh yeah, you're gonna have to drop everything you're doing and fix this, right now." The sociopathic double standards of the corporate world, especially retail, is why we have people cheering the death of a father right now.
Agreed. I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often. There're always been petty tyrants at work. But now there's an almost vindictive tone to the anger. and a growing refusal of any kind of accountability.
My job accidentally double paid everyone one week. They emailed us all saying they were going to pull the overpayment back out of our accounts automatically. It was gone the next day.
There was a payroll glitch at one of my jobs so we didn't get paid. When the store's accountant contacted the company, they said it would be added to our next paycheque (which would also mean more deductions due to the amount in total) My manager then contacted them and it was paid to us on the following monday. (they did try to charge us for the "advanced" payout though but he wasn't having it) BWF
Companies in America cannot pull money out of your account once it's been deposited. It's against federal law. I was overpaid by direct deposit once and told my bosses to just take back the overpayment. They said once the money is deposited, they cannot legally take money from your account. I had to return it manually.
@ It was in Ohio. I’m not sure how they did it. There were almost 10k employees in the school district that was overpaid. Having that many people manually returning the pay wouldn’t be done easily.
When I’m on vacation and work calls me I answer and tell them they owe me a full day pay for their interruption of my time and if they don’t like it take it up with my labor attorney and HR😊
Its annoying when your check is short BUT have to wait til next payday They can cut a check whenever they just dont want to If it were a president CEO or manager they would have no problem cutting a check immediately
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20 years ago I was the office manager for a now-defunct bookstore chain and one of my employees was underpaid $200. Keep in mind this was a part-time college student so this was virtually her entire check. After verifying that I entered the hours correctly I contacted payroll at the main headquarters and they basically said yeah we screwed up we'll put it on her next check. Nope. I gave her $200 out of the petty cash drawer and put a note in there stating what I did. They had an absolute fit but as I was leaving soon anyway there wasn't much they could do. She did pay the money back when she got it in her next check like I knew she would because she was a good person.
There need to be more managers like you 😢
Was this borders?
;) just…wondering ;)
@@Expired_Antidote yes it was. Borders had the worst upper-level management of any company I've ever experienced.
What is it with companies thinking, "Hay if we screw up, you gotta wait for the fix, we'll get to it, when we get to it"
But as soon as you mess up or it's something that benefits you: "Oh yeah, you're gonna have to drop everything you're doing and fix this, right now."
The sociopathic double standards of the corporate world, especially retail, is why we have people cheering the death of a father right now.
Agreed. I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often. There're always been petty tyrants at work. But now there's an almost vindictive tone to the anger. and a growing refusal of any kind of accountability.
My job accidentally double paid everyone one week. They emailed us all saying they were going to pull the overpayment back out of our accounts automatically. It was gone the next day.
There was a payroll glitch at one of my jobs so we didn't get paid. When the store's accountant contacted the company, they said it would be added to our next paycheque (which would also mean more deductions due to the amount in total)
My manager then contacted them and it was paid to us on the following monday. (they did try to charge us for the "advanced" payout though but he wasn't having it)
BWF
Companies in America cannot pull money out of your account once it's been deposited. It's against federal law. I was overpaid by direct deposit once and told my bosses to just take back the overpayment. They said once the money is deposited, they cannot legally take money from your account. I had to return it manually.
That's illegal. 😅
@ It was in Ohio. I’m not sure how they did it. There were almost 10k employees in the school district that was overpaid. Having that many people manually returning the pay wouldn’t be done easily.
@@BeastWarsFan To be fair, you'd get the 'extra deductions' back at the end of the year on your tax return.
I gotta wait, YOU gotta wait. Fair is fair.
It's not Veronica's job to fix a payroll problem. That's straight up aggressive.
When I’m on vacation and work calls me I answer and tell them they owe me a full day pay for their interruption of my time and if they don’t like it take it up with my labor attorney and HR😊
Call AG Wentworth if you need cash now
You get the money back at my convince. You know, like when I wanted my money.
Let all co-workers and management know you are a backpacker…….even if you are not.
No cell service in our Wildernesses.
Its annoying when your check is short BUT have to wait til next payday They can cut a check whenever they just dont want to If it were a president CEO or manager they would have no problem cutting a check immediately
pretty sure that overpay if from them fixing the shortage from last time