meirl
Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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Well since he was only making $8 an hour, color them gone
I’d quit too if I was making $5.75/hr!
What kind of shitty pay system let’s an error of that magnitude slip through?
$23,000 is not disappear forever money
Something similar happened to my brother, left his job just the old company kept him on the payroll and he got an extra check for 4k.
If he’s a legal citizen, it takes like 2 seconds. If not, then it’s on them because they employed an illegal worker.
I would do what they do after transferring all the money out the account. I would conduct a thorough investigation and after coming to a conclusion 2 months later, I would tell them to file a claim that could take another month. Then I would tell it got lost and we have to start the process all over.
When human error creates a happy recipient. Lucky draw!
Would he be forced to pay it back?
I think he won’t be looking for a new job for some time.
One time the company I worked for accidently paid everyone twice. Naturally I pulled the money out of my account immediately. Then the bank took the check amount back out of my account leaving me negative. Then charged me an overdraft fee before I could deposit the extra money back and charged me a transaction fee.
I had a case where I got way over paid. I was working part time as a 16 year old and for some reason our system put in a 40hr work week for the month. Instead of earning like 700 I got like 2000 I think. I had the option of taking a pay cut or them taking my entire check until the balance was paid back. I chose the latter in order to clear the debt. I still work for the company but I haven’t had anything like that happen.
I have seen versions of this same post going around for 5+ years. Could we at least get an original made-up story?
I worked for Old Chicago under Craftworks LLC, and they accidently put the entire payroll account in one of my bartenders bank accounts – $2.4 million dollars (or something close to that). My bartender definitely called to make sure they fixed the error. Haha.
23k is nothing in realityÂ
I don’t condone it, but I understand it, given that he makes $5.75 an hour.
23k isn’t “run away and start a new life” money…. it’s “pay off some of my debt and fix my car and hope I have any left” money
How is he only taking home 5.75?
This happened to me once, it took them till Monday to take it all back out of my account. then I had to wait for them to do my normal check. I still was pissed the bank just gave it back without my consent, I figured I would need to transfer it or write a check, but nope.
God why can’t it be me
Actually not long ago my coworker accidentally got paid almost double and they told her they were going to be taking her next paycheck.
He’s practically a millionaire! He should retire
Gonna be fun when he has to reach out to them for his W2
That is a charges time
Buh bye
They went to r/madlads
r/thathappened
Sure
He should be fine as long as he doesn’t spend any of that at a McDonald’s
Honestly? Based.
That’s when we play The Steve Miller Band and bounce baby
Dont worry the cops will find him, and after that he’ll have the same address for a few years.
Hero
Close that bank account and be ghost
Good luck finding a place that’s going to cash a check like that without asking questions that will definitely get you caught lol.
I have a client who had a disgruntled IT worker. On his last day before quitting he used his super access (should never have had this much) to change everyone’s PTO balance to the maximum amount. It may not seem like a big deal, but that’s a LOT of money that is then technically owed to those employees. I think it took a significant amount of time to unwind and communicate to employees. What a mess.
Lol one time I applied for a job and they accidentally put me on payroll and gave me $580 paycheck 🤣 I hadn’t even gone in for an interview yet 🤣🤣
That’s vet low pay for almost 2 years of wages
What a hero … I bet he thanks this guy every thanksgiving
I hope he never gets found … he’s in deep shit if he does get found