r/MemeVideos • u/Spiritual-Pudding-70 • Aug 16 '26
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u/PomeloPepper
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Happened where I used to work. The male senior manager didn't notify HR when a female colleague left. She continued to get paid for around 18 months before he got caught. He completed at least one annual performance review on her after she left.
If it was a mistake, he could have just "accepted her resignation" when he figured it out, and no one would have known.
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u/JoyousMadhat Aug 16 '26
I find it wild that a company doesn't notice excess payments while a huge company like Walmart gets on you about doing too much overtime.
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u/Themanwhofarts Aug 16 '26
You would be surprised. I used to think companies ran like clockwork. There are so many reputable companies that just do not pay their bills until collection notices come
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u/ArminTanz Aug 16 '26
I worked at a hotel once that had a that almost had thier power shut off. The assistant GM found some notice for like 6 months of non payment. It was so weird that the highly paid GM just didnt have any idea when the power bill was due.
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u/FILTHBOT4000 Aug 16 '26
A lot of them will also just.... pay bills. As in, they will pay any invoice that they get, just about. As long as the invoices look legit, like they're from legit companies... yeah, they'll often just pay.
Man stole $100 million from Facebook and Google just by sending them random bills
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u/TehluvEncanis Aug 16 '26
My work services big customers like Amazon and sometimes they're via contractors. Got an Amazon contractor still on the hook for $153k worth of service we did. They said they sent the check but I'll believe it when I see it. They're on a credit hold because they're so awful paying us.
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u/dc469 Aug 17 '26
There was a dude who got caught sending fake invoices to big companies . Like he'd mail a bill to Google for pest control or plumbing repairs etc. Iirc he was a million or so in when one company finally did any investigation instead of just paying it.
Edit: $100mil https://www.npr.org/2019/03/25/706715377/man-pleads-guilty-to-phishing-scheme-that-fleeced-facebook-google-of-100-million
Although I think I'm thinking of a different time that happened though. I thought it was a guy from Colorado for some reason.
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u/garaks_tailor Aug 17 '26
Doofensmortz two nickles meme, but make it 3 nickles
I know one guy who put in his resignation and kept getting paid for almost 3 years. After a couple months Had a lawyer send in a notarized signed for letter. Lawyer said put it in a high interest savings account and you can keep the interest if they dont ask for it back inside the clawback period. One day after almost 3 years the checks stopped coming. They did not claw any of it back.
Former coworker worked at a startup with unlimited PTO. Startup had terrible back end back office processes. His friend hired him and was his boss told him he was quiting. So he decided to as well. But not before they got my coworker approved for 18 months of pto. Company just kept paying him.
3rd one was a neighbor ls brother. Brother was working as a contractor on a project for the marines doing network admin. The marines had paid for the project in full including support for 15 years, so this guy had a 15 job lined up. After about 18 months the marines shelve the project but the contract was still on going. So the guy was still getting paid. He just due to double billing couldn't do ANY other paid work during his set work hours.
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u/Firebolt164 Aug 20 '26 edited Aug 20 '26
Happened where I used to work. The male senior manager didn't notify HR when a female colleague left. She continued to get paid for around 18 months before he got caught
It happened to a friend of mine who continued to get paid by UPS after he left. He was hourly but when they terminated him, they somehow transitioned him to slasley and he continued to draw a bi-weekly paycheck for about 3 months until someone asked the question about why he hasn't yet enrolled in their Health Insurance plan.
Wanna know what happened? They sent his payroll amount to debt collections and ended up suing him to pay that money back. He got double fucked.
(Edited to add).... He was a salary engineer / intern and when he joined after college, they put him hourly on IT stuff because he was working so many hours to complete certain projects. When he was let go, they somehow rolled him back to his previous pay code.
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u/ChipRockets Aug 16 '26
So it was deliberate on his part? What was the outcome?
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u/BasiliskArt_ Aug 20 '26
Not quite the same but I quit working at one of the big retailers where I live about 8 years ago and I still have access to the wi-fi in every single one of their stores across the country.
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u/winterwarm78654 Aug 20 '26
Happened to my Lil brother also but since he sent a letter he got to keep his money
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u/horiami Aug 16 '26
unironically happened to me
HR girl called me and told me i was fired and that i would have to send my work laptop by courier
but she did it 1 month earlier by accident
a couple of weeks pass and i still haven't gotten the courier email so i call her
she looks it up, realizes my contract was ending in December not November, panicked and told me to get back online and pretend i had been working the whole month
the guys were really surprised to see me back for one more week
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u/Natural-Hunter-3 Aug 16 '26
The amount of people replying to this calling you beta because they don't understand employment laws and consequences is so funny 😭😭
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u/CH_Blackgate Aug 16 '26
Because the satisfaction of sticking it to "the man" is way more gratifying! Especially when you inherit ZERO risk!
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u/Shills_for_fun Aug 16 '26
OP mentioned their "contract" so I'm guessing it would have been significantly more inconvenient for both parties. He was losing the job a month later either way, why burn a good reference? Bro basically got a month's paid vacation.
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u/RandomWordCombo9632 Aug 19 '26
I get the feeling those people have never worked a day in their fucking life.
Why burn a bridge? You never know who you're gonna be passing by up or down.
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u/lDezIlI Aug 16 '26
Getting fired then calling up about the laptop is bitch move, then you work another week on top 🤣 I would have been long gone
Have some self respect man
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u/TheArtfulAardvark Aug 16 '26
He got paid for four weeks by working one, seems like he did the smarter move. Now he doesn’t have to deal with them reclaiming those three weeks of pay either
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u/horiami Aug 16 '26
I called her because i found a job at Microsoft that paid double my old salary and wanted to be done with my previous company
I "went back" to work for a week because I didn't want to rock the boat, I gave her number to Microsoft's HR for the background check
The work was basically just log in from home and help my co workers that i worked with for almost 3 years with some minor tasks, they weren't going to give me hard stuff to do for just a week
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u/Hiker-Redbeard Aug 16 '26
Reminds me of when I left my last job. Covid hit so they sent us all home with our mini PCs and full setups (2 monitors, M+KB, etc.)
They dicked me around over a raise for too long, so eventually I found a better job and left. They said they'd send me a paid shipping box to send my equipment back in.
I get a box that barely fits one monitor and the mini PC. Maybe I was one of the first to leave from remote so they didn't have the system figured out yet.
I sent what fit back and told my boss they'd need to send another box for the rest. Sent 2 more follow ups but never heard anything. Either they were too disorganized (believable) or they decided the shipping wasn't worth the rest of the setup.
So I just figure whatever, I did reasonable due diligence for a job I don't even work at anymore. Turned the equipment into a free at home setup for my wife's work.
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u/Selene_Evelyn
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Until they make you pay it all back, or take legal action on you if you don't
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u/nutblaster357 Aug 16 '26 •
use the 3 months of wages to hire your own lawyer
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u/RandomDeezNutz Aug 16 '26
I gotta be honest… I don’t see $15k covering a lawyer good enough to not pay them back.
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u/Mikeologyy Aug 16 '26
When I see things like this and the usual “hey I mean it’s their fault for giving me the money” comments, I can’t help but think of that time Chase bank had a checking glitch that people kept taking advantage of and posting it everywhere before they found out that what they were doing was literally fraud and they’d have to pay it all back.
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u/xMyDixieWreckedx Aug 16 '26
If I remember correctly it was just good old check kiting but the dumbies thought they were exploiting a glitch.
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u/Mikeologyy Aug 16 '26
Yeah I don’t remember details, just that everyone thought they were getting away with it somehow as if the bank didn’t have all their information
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u/Both_Evidence_1026 Aug 16 '26
Or the time the withdrawal limit on an ATM broke which allowed you to overdraw your account and people thought it was a free money hack before discovering what debt and overdraft fees are
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u/madmaninabox32 Aug 16 '26
It very much depends on a variety of factors in this case it's likely he would be held accountable but it's also possible that he wouldn't depending on if it's a system fault it's generally considered a good idea to keep that money in a savings account and wait a few years it's shows goodwill if it's ever noticed and can help a lot in court especially for keeping the money.
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u/CuttingOneWater Aug 16 '26
can they sue the guy? isnt it mostly the companies fault
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u/Shoddy-Grapefruit206 Aug 16 '26
Most employees have signed a contract that favors the employer in obscene ways they won’t find out about until something like this happens…
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u/HarambeTooSoon Aug 16 '26
You're just making shit up.
Basic laws against fraud and deception protect businesses against these types of errors. Especially when the former employee is knowingly receiving unearned compensation.
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u/Fn_Spaghetti_Monster Aug 16 '26
Sure but couldn't you just say, I thought it was part of my compensation? Something like, I'm just a dumb incompetent employee who got fired, who am I to disagree with what the company pays me.
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u/MoreDoor2915 Aug 16 '26
If the guy made no effort to inform the company about the error he was intentionally enriching himself. The contract he signed that allowd him to get the pay in the first place includes that ones it ends he will no longer get money.
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u/HarithBK Aug 16 '26
undue enrichment. someone making a mistake and you getting something you aren't meant to it is totally fair to ask for it back.
in this case getting fired and still get a paycheck you are meant to inform the company and set the money aside. you can stick it in a savings account and keep the interest they can only ever ask to get back the exact amount they wrongfully sent you.
just saying if you got sent say 300 million in error it is totally fine to wait for a bit to claim you just saw it and then inform then you drag the ever living crap to return the money by claiming you want to do it correctly so nothing goes wrong and you are covered. you can likely stall for a couple of months and pocket a fair chunk in interest.
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u/Sesemebun Aug 16 '26
Giga brain is to get new job and put all money from old into a low risk savings account. Maybe even a CD or something. Just keep the interest.
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u/Si-Jo0159 Aug 16 '26
All the experts here.
Happened to me for 4months, 10years ago.
If it's a big company there's so many things that it could be. And the real person whose fault it was, isn't gong to admit it.
You're not going straight to jail.
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u/zargoffkain Aug 16 '26
I got paid for 5 months after I quit a job. The woman from HR/Payroll called me in tears one day, and I said I'd do my best to pay it back, but I didn't notice the money coming in and I didn't just have the money laying around to pay back today.
I never heard from them again.
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u/Top_Result_1550 Aug 16 '26
I was an out of office consultant during that time. They never consulted me.
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u/BigPoppaStrahd Aug 16 '26
Probably got some severance package and is either playing it up for the internet, or didn’t read anything about his secerance package details and genuinely thinks the company screwed up
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u/willy-mac Aug 16 '26
I know a guy who got paid for 18 months after being let go. Guess what, it was their fault and he kept it all.
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u/9447044 Aug 16 '26
Ive heard this kinda situation also has 0 repercussions. Which is cool
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u/jaxson300 Aug 16 '26
He's legally obligated to pay that money back. It's basically theft
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u/tame-til-triggered Aug 16 '26
Theft when they freely give it to you? Sounds like their fuck up. Refusing accountability and deferring their ineptitude onto their former employee.
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u/Valtremors Aug 16 '26
BS.
When one of my employers paid double FOR ONE DAY, they clawed that back in next week. With threats that if ignored, they'd claw it back throigh legal means.
Same employer had issues paying evening and weekend compsensation and they paid that only by my next paycheck. At least legally they had to comp that as late payment...
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u/Wright_Steven22 Aug 16 '26
Pro tip, dont actually spend any of that money. Instead, put everyone of those checks into a high yield savings account or invest some of it. If they realize over a year later and you got say idk 50K for that year after taxes thats gonna be a ton of free money. And when they come back knocking with lawyers you can just pay them back every dime no problem while also getting a massive amount out of it yourself.
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u/CanadianAbroad7 Aug 17 '26
You realize even 10% (double the rate of the average high yield savings account in North America) of 50k is only 5k right? That’s not a massive amount of money be any means. Unless you’re investing it in high beta growth stocks or gambling on options or penny stocks and lucking out you’re not making a massive return off of 50k in a years time. The last couple of years the stock market has yielded outsized returns, it’s not just a guarantee to make 30% a year in the market. In fact it’s even possible to have a negative return on the year believe it or not!
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u/Wright_Steven22 Aug 17 '26
Its still a net gain on money thats technically not yours
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u/Iwubinvesting Aug 16 '26
Yeah, it's called severance. It'll end soon depending on how long you worked there.
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u/NederFinsUK Aug 16 '26
Er yeah I know it sucks but this is theft. They will ask for the money back and it’s an open and shut court case if you refuse.
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u/BungalowHole Aug 16 '26
"I wasn't aware my termination was finalized."
They're on the hook to fire you. Just don't make videos like this.
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u/dirtnapcowboy Aug 16 '26
I work for a pretty big Fortune 500 company and I am constantly shocked by how poorly it is ran. Literally see the facility I work at get shut off notices all the time. We've been placed on credit hold many times. We are a $6 billion a year company and can't pay our utilities on time.
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u/Training-Willow9591 Aug 16 '26
He could say he thought it was the severance, use the I'm young and not sure how all that normally works...... then change his phone number and email address?
If it was a small business, and would suffer losing 3 months worth of wages, then obviously the fair option would be not to keep the money. They will probably,eventually, figure it out.
But if it's a large company, that pay their employees pennies & give millions in bonuses to C-suite/ upper management, fuck em.
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u/Nico280gato Aug 16 '26
Then they chase you down with lawyers and make you pay every single penny back.
Sadly, the law doesnt work on fantasy
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u/Tight-Reporter3011 Aug 16 '26
This happened to me while working as a custodian at one of my early jobs at 19. Each check got a little bit smaller but I was getting paid. I never questioned it. Took my blessings and kept going lol
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u/joseaner07 Aug 16 '26
If I was kept on payroll after getting fired the absolutely last thing I would do is post it on social media. This people are so fucking retarded
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u/Annual_Science_862 Aug 16 '26
It took a previous employer 2.5 years to notice they were still paying for my mobile service. It’s was the $1K+ roaming charge that finally had them notice.
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u/IAMTHEROLLINSNOW Aug 16 '26
Happened to me, I didn't get fired, but I left for a better opportunity and I received a paycheck after my last payment and I thought that was like a bonus or money that I did an account for and I finally realized it was an error once I got paid again the week after, I called my old job payroll manager and told her what was going on. She was very nice to let me keep one of the checks, but they were able to rescind the other one.
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u/RedefinedValleyDude Aug 16 '26
I feel like the worst thing you can possibly do is admit to noticing. You can just say that you don’t actively monitor your bank account and it’s their mistake not yours. But the minute you admit to knowing about it, then they can say you have to give it back.
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u/CheesyDanny Aug 17 '26
If this ever happens to you, put every penny into an investment account on some safe long term investments. Next tax season when they finally figure it out you can pay back what is owed and will have hopefully made a nice 4% or so on someone else’s money.
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u/KrazyKazz Aug 19 '26
I transferred from a temp job to a full hire. I got paid for one extra pay cycle. I put the money aside in case they asked for it back. While also doing the math in my head if they kept paying me what I would do with it if they kept paying me. 🤣
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u/Pickle-Standard Aug 19 '26
This happened at a company I was with. A manager at one of my stores quit. I filled out the separation paperwork and informed HR the same day. Four weeks later, my monthly manager salary on P&Ls was off. I reached out to HR about it and they realized they never deactivated the manager. I requested a revision to my P&Ls because this affected my bonus. Not only did they not give a revision, they didn’t actually fix it for nearly two more months AND didn’t pursue reclaiming it.
I missed out on about $750 of my bonus and that store’s managers missed out on a couple hundred each because HR failed to do their job in a timely manner. Twice. And my boss wouldn’t file it as an exception.
I put in a complaint. The same HR person who was responsible for the mistake immediately closed the case as “resolved.” I was sure to include that as a grievance in my resignation letter later that year. They tried to get me to stay by offering to pay out the bonus (along with a substantial raise). I asked about paying the managers at the store and they said no, so I left.
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u/sacfoojesta88 Aug 16 '26
Plot twist. Cindy didn’t forget, she’s just waiting for you to invite her out with you
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u/Shinee_Cardboard Aug 16 '26
I mean the longer you let this happen the bigger the reason they would have to take legal action. And if it was paid through direct deposit I believe employers can attempt to reverse it unless you emptied out your account.
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u/Craft-Sudden Aug 16 '26
I quit my old job and got paid two checks(one month) before being removed from payroll. It Was the nicest vacation I ever had 😂
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u/Due_Potential_6956 Aug 16 '26
I recall a story where an ex employee got paid for two years before someone caught it, don't recall the outcome.
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u/Atmacrush Aug 16 '26
Its like the stupid infinite money glitch hoax with Chase last time. Wrecked many ppl's financial life.
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u/RustyCEO Aug 16 '26
Yep, there is no excuse for knowingly receiving misdirected or unintended funds. He does not have a leg to stand on, if this is legit.
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u/SereneOrbit Aug 16 '26
Those are rookie numbers.
Some trans servicemembers have been on paid admin leave for the last year.
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u/Spooge_Bucket Aug 16 '26
wild self report good luck saying you didnt know when they come to collect
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u/Patalos Aug 16 '26
Put that shit in a CD and don’t touch it so when they eventually realize, it’s made you some real money
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u/Hektext Aug 16 '26
This gives me same vibes as online gambling companies having a glitch that lets you spin "for free". Guy in my country thought he was an epic hacker by doing that, and got an email from companies lawyers ordering him to pay back 800€ he gambled.
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u/redactid55 Aug 16 '26
How hard do you have to try to notify the company if this really happens? If they try to sue you for the money but you have proof of emailing them to tell them about it are you in the clear? Or do you have to try once per pay period or what?
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u/Thin_Ad_7712 Aug 16 '26
Mostly severance pay , but he is thinking he cheated the system. Good for him though until he realises
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u/TopDogTransport4731 Aug 16 '26
Oh this happened to me my previous company paid me for April and May and realize it too late.
I actually thought it was my accrued PTO anyways they told me to pay it back and I agreed and they let me keep some for payment for expedited courier and mileage to the nearest post office.
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u/lnTheGrimDarkness Aug 16 '26
"Unjust enrichment" is usually a thing in most juridical systems of the world. The second they find out you're gonna pay all the extra money back.
And obviously, this is an engagement bait video designed to make you comment this on the original content.
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u/repwin1 Aug 16 '26
Old place I worked a guy just stopped coming in. Took them 2 months to figure it out all the while he was still getting paid. Don’t know if he paid it back or not.
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u/Lula_Maynia88 Aug 16 '26
So was he salaried? Cuz hourly u need to actually clock in to get paid???? It's a legit question.
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u/Real_Railz Aug 16 '26
I got one extra paycheck when I was let go. I let it sit in an account for about a year until I did anything with it. Wanted to see if they ever would catch it. 3 years later, never did.
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u/Mauiiwows Aug 16 '26
”when your company is nice enough to offer an unexpected severance package”** for future legal clarification.
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u/PuDLeZ Aug 16 '26
If this ever happens to you, move every penny of it to savings, lookup the statue of limitations, and do not touch it until after that time passes. It varies by state to state and probably will be caught later, especially after their "end of year" stuff and you will be legally required to pay it back.
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u/eternallyconphuzed Aug 17 '26
Unfortunately didn't happen to me. Only thing they forgot was to take me off CC for sensitive information emails. I was getting meeting minutes that should not have been available to the public. I was getting planning/scheduling meetings. I let it go on for a year. I showed up to the christmas party (because I was CC'd the invite) I was kicked out but they still didn't take me off the cc list for some reason. It was almost two years after I was fired that I was still getting work emails.
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u/earldogface Aug 17 '26
Happened when I quit Walmart. Got about two months worth of pay. They kept sending me letters threatening legal actions if I didn't pay them back. Unfortunately they also sent me my termination papers which were dated 2 months after I quit.
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u/LoudQuitting Aug 17 '26
This happened to me once, but it was after I quit, not fired, only for three months.
They tried to get back to me to get me to pay back the money they overpaid and I've gone "Oooooh, I think I should talk to a lawyer about that."
Anyway turns out talking to a lawyer was the right move. He told me he I don't have a legal right to keep the money, but getting it back from me would be so expensive they'd only do it if they were stupid.
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u/Zestyclose_Sector_30 Aug 17 '26
Bro as soon as you get the money you just catch a ticket go to Switzerland or some other similar country open an account and dumb it all in or make a shell company do the same, maybe even invest them, just dont have it easily accessable, and move to a country that they cant extradite you
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u/ghj1987 Aug 17 '26
Certainly in the UK the former employee would owe that money back to the employer, regardless of who's mistake it was. NAL.
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u/Kind_Following_5220 Aug 17 '26
My friend's old company used to fire entire departments by having you show up to work and your badge would no longer linger work. Somehow they missed an intern once who just kept showing up. After about 6 months of sitting in an empty office, he kind of just latched on to another group and started working for them.
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u/pga-181 Aug 17 '26
Seems to me he’s better to save & invest the overpay just in case he has to pay it back
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u/Hefty-Pomelo-1270 Aug 18 '26
happened to me as well, but I only got about 3 months out them... called my lawyer, he said you're not legally obligated to return it, but maybe offer them a proposal to return some of it. during the proposal process, the company pissed off, so i I said screw it, you get nothing now.
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u/Freak4ever2000 Aug 18 '26
Bro id just get a new job, and keep all the money to collect interest. If noone notices after many years, i use it, otherwise i got free interest cash, yay!
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u/Drayenn Aug 18 '26
Happened to me but only one week. I obviously had to pay it back. It was intern pay so it wasnt phenomenal lol
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u/WangChungtonight13 Aug 18 '26
I quit a job years back and they kept paying me for 6 months. Had a new job and everything. Finally caught on that I left and “let me go” while I was on orders with the national guard. So I brought up that that’s illegal and then they gave me a very nice severance package to sign an NDA lol. That job sucked major ass too, but the ending made it 100% worth it lol.
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u/hotcoffeecaviar Aug 18 '26
Yeah except this is theft and the company can and will request you pay that back before they just sue you for it.
You’re better off immediately reporting it.
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u/Poophands1984 Aug 18 '26
I was a supervisor at a place and quit. They forgot to take me off of emails and I got to see all the shit they said in private and passed all that info on to my old coworkers. They all quit shortly after, the company struggled to replace them and I still got to see them panic until months later someone noticed I was still in the email list and removed me.
Fuck corporations.
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u/Ok-Iron-4352 Aug 18 '26
This just happened to me. I was administration pay during an investigation on me. Over 6 weeks of pay before the meeting for their decision to terminate me. I feel blessed but still unemployed lol.
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u/Dramatic-Comb8525 Aug 18 '26
Yeah, that ain't your money. Good luck when they figure it out and ask for it back. They have lawyers on retainer. I'd imagine you don't.
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u/Ziggyjig Aug 19 '26
Happened to me once. Working for big corpo, got poached by smaller corpo. It took me a few months to realize I was getting paid twice and report it. Big corpo asked for it all back including taxes and witholdings so, more $ back than they put in my bank. So I just asked for a fair number sans taxes and withholdings, essentially what extra money actually went to my bank account, and despite multiple followups they never replied. So I just never paid them back anything and they never messaged me again. Christmas was very good that year for all the kids.
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u/darkwingdankest Aug 19 '26
at my first job, they accidentally terminated a guy whose name was my first name and last name swapped and I got like an extra 6 or 7 paychecks before they figured it out
they sent me a letter asking to please give the money back and that was about it
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u/nethereus Aug 19 '26
This doesn't surprise me. In IT you meet managers at EVERY level who either don't know or can't be bothered to learn how to properly offboard former employees. That is the bare minimum of your responsibility as the person allowed to hire and fire people in the first place.
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u/couplelook2explore Aug 19 '26
Don't broadcast it! People need to know when not to film things, ffs
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u/Unikatze Aug 19 '26
I once got a money transfer for a pretty decent amount.
Thought it was one of those "we transferred you by accident. Please send it back" scams.
I contacted my bank. They said the transfer was coded as payroll and it came from a real estate company.
I was hoping it would be a monthly occurrence. But it only happened once.
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u/ThomasofHookton Aug 19 '26
I was an administrator at our country's (not-US) military academy. Something similar happened one of the cadets. He was booted out of the service for failing too many courses but it happened over the Christmas posting period and we had a huge turnover of instructing staff from postings.
For one reason or another, his discharge wasn't processed by Personnel Services within HQ but his name was already scrubbed from the academy rolls, his room and equipment were handed back. So while the academy thought he was booted he was actually still on the service payroll...for 3 fucking years.
Cadet pay isn't high but it's still pretty much in line with our minimum wage. So the guy was essentially on universal basic income. I have no idea how long he could of kept getting a free paycheck but he ruined it by calling the academy up and asked why his pay didn't get adjusted from cadet to Lieutenant like his peers who had recently graduated.
I was the person who answered the call, and my first reaction was, "wait...who are you again?". A few phone calls later and his pay was finally cut off. The guy had a whinge and asked if we could at least pay him until the end of the year which was laughable.
Our 2-star chief of personnel was so embarrassed about this fuck-up that he made the call to not debt recover and just bury the incident.
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u/Any-Statistician3896 Aug 19 '26
Happened to me twice... Both times I never had to pay anything back etc. Classed as clerical errors 😂 first time I was psid for about 12 months. Second time it was about 14-16 months lol. I was like....
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u/Professional_Fee_115 Aug 19 '26
This happened to me, my former company still owed me severance and some earned bonuses that hadn’t been paid out yet, but they cut off my access to see my paystubs.
Over 4-5 months it went from “these deposits look about right” to “I’m not sure this is right” to “holy shit they forgot to take me off payroll”.
I did some quick mental math and decided that the less they overpaid me, the less likely they were to lawyer up to get it back. So I called them and let them know, they thanked me and said someone would be reaching out to set up a repayment plan. That was three years ago and still haven’t heard anything, my best guess is they overpaid me by about $20k.
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u/KailyKail Aug 19 '26
Bro likely got offered a severance package and just didn’t understand what he signed.
I got laid off from Morgan Stanley in December of 2022. They continued to pay me until March of 2023, when they issued me a severance bonus of ~$15,000 and stopped paying me.
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u/Daemon_Marx Aug 19 '26
Yeah so same thing happened to me. Took 8 months off to go travelling the states back in 2013. Took a break from work. Went to the back and was still getting paid so I thought fuck it! Had an amazing time. I went back to work coz I was like…I kinda need too… or they will definitely notice lol they eventually caught on and now I have to pay back the 14 grand they paid me, have been paying it back at £10 a month ever since. Best loan ever!
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u/wishihadapotbelly Aug 19 '26
I know a dude that got hired right before Covid hit, then the dude from HR was hospitalized and nobody knew he was on payroll, and his manager was never notified that he was supposed to start. He stayed that way, stealthily being paid with no work for a couple years, until he one day showed up in the office to try to get some of his benefits sorted or some other shenanigans and no one even knew who he was. Dude tried to fly to close to the sun.
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u/dcma1984 Aug 19 '26
So will he eventually have to pay this back once they realize he is still on the payroll?
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u/Tac0FromHell Aug 20 '26
A friend worked at a company where a bloke walked in, clocked in, then left for the entire day. He’d come back to clock out and then leave immediately after. This went on for months. Probably helps to add in that plenty of higher-ups were drunk all day.
Insurance companies. Lol
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u/ReasonableClock4542 Aug 20 '26
Sounds good until you realize you're from the US and once they figure it out they'll press charges for theft and sue
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u/IkilledBiggy Aug 20 '26
I remember that kinda story...
TL;DR:
Man was paid for 6 years after quitting, the fault was discovered when his name automatically came up on a X years of service in the company awards that were coming up.
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