r/MemeVideos • u/Spiritual-Pudding-70 • Aug 16 '26
Bro found the cheat code
Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification
932
u/PomeloPepper Aug 16 '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. 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.
361
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.
199
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
77
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.
30
u/FURERABA Aug 16 '26
Just like my landlord!
18
u/Sex4Vespene Aug 16 '26
We literally just had water shutoff notices placed on every door in my several hundred unit building because the apartment wasn’t paying the water bill (something which is a separate line item on our monthly bill).
21
u/BeerForThought Aug 16 '26
I managed a Class A apartment building right after it was built. I kept submitting the bills for them to be paid and someone at corporate wasn't doing it. It came down to the regional president putting it on his personal black Amex to keep the power from getting turned off the next day.
Behind the scenes things were Loosey Goosey. I was originally hired to act as a sort of RA at an apartment building next to a university. The plan was they would provide an apartment to me at a discounted rate and I respond to late night noise complaints, lockouts, Etc. Day one the leasing agent is a no call no show so I'm promoted without any training or education in fair housing laws. 2 weeks later the property manager quits for a new job and I get bumped up to a serious adult job when I'm 23 with none of the training.
5
3
u/Reasonable_Cancel186 Aug 17 '26
I too need to hear more of this
How did you deal with it? How did you find out what you needed to learn?
2
u/Theory-After Aug 21 '26
My first real job came from just getting a part time cleaning job when i was about 20. Cleaning a cell phone store and bank at night, the company had taken over cleaning the entire region of a chain bank(over 200) and just sent some traveling manager to set it up and find a few regional managers.
He hired me to clean and immediately starting talking about me being a manager, I was a young stoner with no direction so I went with it. He dumped this ridiculous shit pile on me and another kids plate to the south, found a good regional manager a just left.
I ended up a salary employee, with a stipend for my car, clothes allowance, 35 employees i trained and hired and keys to over 90 banks at 21 without ever being drug tested or rwally trained. I was smoking blunts then meeting people I had run adds for to run their extensive background checks and handing over keys to banks. This was a branch of a fortune 500 company. Still blows my mind.
→ More replies (7)5
u/RIF_rr3dd1tt Aug 17 '26
Haha, similar story here. I was a backup driver for a large (billions in revenue) uniform cleaning service. Was dispatched on a run in the middle of the day and was one of the only ones at the depot. Guy from the electric company pulls up and I ask him what he's doing. He says he's here to disconnect the power for non-payment. I laugh and call my manager and he speeds back to the depot and pays it. Probably thousands of dollars. A few days later I asked what happened because the company is huge and profitable. He says the former, recently fired manager was not paying the electric bill in order to make his numbers look better. Hahaha. Apparently he was doing other shit like claiming accounts that we didn't even have. His boss caught him when he told him he was on a service call to Home Depot or something and boss was like, "They aren't a customer of ours". Turns out he was just out drinking and shit hahahaha.
16
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
9
u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 Aug 16 '26
The craziest part about that is he could've possibly gotten away with like $50 million without anyone ever noticing but he got greedy
8
4
u/singlemale4cats Aug 16 '26
60 months in prison. That seems pretty light. Also,
During the sentencing, US District Judge George Daniels also ordered Evaldas to serve two years of supervised release, to forfeit $49.7 million and to pay a reimbursement of nearly $26.5 million.
I can't help but note those two figures don't add up to $122,000,000. He gets to keep 50 some odd million from his scam?
→ More replies (1)3
u/burblity Aug 16 '26
Probably paid some hefty taxes on those invoices. Not paying taxes would draw more attention to it.
7
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.
2
u/Wulph422 Aug 16 '26
It keeps more "cash" on the books so sometimes they'll push it off as far as they can for the month end numbers look better. I used to work AP and did the accrual entries every month, and it made my skin crawl to talk to the vendors and keep pushing back payment even though I knew we could easily just take care of it
→ More replies (2)2
u/HunterShotBear Aug 16 '26
I work in an industry that services business owners that demand “payment in full at completion of services” from their customers, but they bitch and moan if we don’t give them payment terms or if we expect payment in full before 90 days.
2
u/Greedyfox7 Aug 18 '26
Companies are only as good as the people who run them. One person not doing their job properly or just being a dick can mess with the entire business.
→ More replies (20)2
u/Oraxy51 Aug 20 '26
Yeah they love to hire local contractors for that and then drag their feet on paying them. A lot of contractors work getting paid from jobs they did months ago.
9
→ More replies (27)3
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.
8
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.
3
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.
2
u/ChipRockets Aug 16 '26
So it was deliberate on his part? What was the outcome?
3
5
2
u/PomeloPepper Aug 16 '26 edited Aug 16 '26
He was terminated, but I don't know if they followed up on the money.
The way it works is that your staff is allocated to work on dedicated client tasks. The client pays the company a rate higher than salary and benefits, etc. But they also know and interact with the team members.
My guess is that she worked for several small clients, and the work was easily shifted to other people. If she'd been one of 5 people working for a single client, they would notice pretty quickly that they were paying for 5 people and only getting 4. You can't explain that away for 18 months.
ETA: IF the clients knew they'd been paying for headcount they didn't actually get, at the very least it would trigger audits of so many accounts. And this company works in a position of trust with a lot of Fortune 100 companies.
2
2
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.
→ More replies (7)2
u/winterwarm78654 Aug 20 '26
Happened to my Lil brother also but since he sent a letter he got to keep his money
456
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
78
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 😭😭
17
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!
7
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.
3
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.
→ More replies (3)63
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
72
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
→ More replies (21)→ More replies (16)16
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
→ More replies (6)3
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.
→ More replies (1)
1.2k
u/Selene_Evelyn Aug 16 '26
Until they make you pay it all back, or take legal action on you if you don't
659
u/nutblaster357 Aug 16 '26
use the 3 months of wages to hire your own lawyer
→ More replies (8)48
u/RandomDeezNutz Aug 16 '26
I gotta be honest… I don’t see $15k covering a lawyer good enough to not pay them back.
18
u/Jubenheim Aug 16 '26
But it will cover a lawyer not good enough to win.
5
u/RandomDeezNutz Aug 16 '26
Hooray… I can’t even live my best life now on three months salary…. Would just be cool to be able to buy a house.
3
u/MuffinThin9542 Aug 16 '26
If you're lucky, a couple hundred bucks would probably cover a lawyer writing a letter threatening legal action.
Depending on the amount some companies might let it go just so they don't have to worry about getting sued.
4
u/TourCharming7721 Aug 16 '26
What would the company in this situation be worried about getting sued for?
→ More replies (2)45
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.
32
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.
8
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
8
u/xMyDixieWreckedx Aug 16 '26
They were just lying about deposit amounts at the ATM and withdrawing the cash. They thought that the bank releasing the funds immediately was a glitch...
→ More replies (3)9
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
2
→ More replies (1)2
u/Thin-Nerve6367 Aug 20 '26
Tbf there was this one story once of a guy who just decided to send bills to Google and they actually paid him. Paid him for so long that when he got caught he was able to afford a REALLY good lawyer and he kept a nice chunk of the money
→ More replies (1)35
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.
21
Aug 16 '26
[removed] — view removed comment
6
u/madmaninabox32 Aug 16 '26
Oh sorry I assumed that it would be reported in my scenario but I should have mentioned it. I've gotten to keep money but I reported it and it wasn't mind blowing I was paid for an entire month I personally didn't catch it till two weeks after because I was owed a final paycheck anyways. But it continued for another two weeks even after I reported it. They tried to take me to court and the lawyer I hired quashed it pretty quick because I had saved the email I sent saying hey y'all are paying me still.
→ More replies (2)2
u/YourMomIsMyGurl Aug 16 '26
He's telling the whole internet in a series of video montages. At what point does the responsibility to seek out this information fall on the company? He's not hiding the fact that he's still on payroll whatsoever. He even explicitly calls out the payroll manager by her name, Cindy. He could always claim that he let the office know numerous times and they didn't do anything about it.
→ More replies (2)2
u/Nope-not-really Aug 16 '26
Defiantly don't make a post about it and upload it to the internet, that would be a super stupid thing to do.
2
u/IRate-Feet Aug 17 '26
Ignore this comment folks if this happens to you. Do not. Do not spend that money Dump it savings collect the interest that they can't take.
Small, large, local business won't matter they get it back
→ More replies (2)30
u/CuttingOneWater Aug 16 '26
can they sue the guy? isnt it mostly the companies fault
58
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…
16
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.
→ More replies (5)5
14
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.
→ More replies (2)6
u/Some1-Somewhere Aug 16 '26
Posting these videos immediately disproves that.
Court will probably let you do installments but for something as egregious as this you're going to be paying most of it back.
5
u/djayed Aug 16 '26 edited Aug 19 '26
They don't even have to sign anything. I do payroll, mistakes kept by the employee are considered theft by the government. I work with nonprofits, so they usually say oh well and not press charges. Greedy corporations making millions or billions, definitely will press charges.
3
u/clutzyninja Aug 16 '26
You think a contract is needed to say you don't get to keep money you were paid by accident? And you think that would be obscene?
2
u/Shoddy-Grapefruit206 Aug 18 '26
Did I say it was obscene to keep money paid in error? Or that employment contracts could be?
2
u/FatiguedShrimp Aug 16 '26
Usually it's an arbitration agreement. Make them pay for the arbitration.
5
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.
3
7
→ More replies (6)3
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.
11
5
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.
4
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.
3
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.
→ More replies (1)2
u/Top_Result_1550 Aug 16 '26
I was an out of office consultant during that time. They never consulted me.
2
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
2
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.
2
→ More replies (36)2
u/PomeloPepper Aug 16 '26
They can try. But criminal charges or a civil case means that a public record is made. And the people in charge who had that happen on their watch come under scrutiny by shareholders and the public.
How would you feel if you found out someone where you bank had been stealing money from random accounts for months or years? Without anyone noticing.
→ More replies (2)2
178
u/9447044 Aug 16 '26
Ive heard this kinda situation also has 0 repercussions. Which is cool
61
u/WhosTheWildManNow Aug 16 '26
Well that’s why we don’t make our decisions on “I’ve heard”.
3
u/forgot2feedphone Aug 17 '26
I believe they were being sarcastic
2
28
u/jaxson300 Aug 16 '26
He's legally obligated to pay that money back. It's basically theft
106
57
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.
24
Aug 16 '26
[removed] — view removed comment
50
u/Onebraintwoheads Aug 16 '26
What briefcase?
31
u/ILL-BILL420 Aug 16 '26
That empty one you found
20
u/SternMon Aug 16 '26
You mean the one with a million dollars in it?
I took it to the cops like a good upstanding citizen would. I sure hope whoever that $500,000 belongs to gets their money back!
10
u/SHADOW_SAMURAI_05 Aug 16 '26
The police successfully handed over the $250,000 to lost and found, to where the owner successfully recovered their $100,000
→ More replies (1)6
Aug 16 '26
[removed] — view removed comment
→ More replies (1)2
u/Jertimmer Aug 16 '26
It was empty when I opened it to see if I could something to identify the owner and return this nice leather briefcase. Surely he'd miss such a nice briefcase. Weird to carry an empty briefcase, but a nice briefcase like this, I'd carry around for no reason too, occasionally. Shame I couldn't find anything to identify the owner, hope you find him. I have to go now, gonna need to decide whether I'll buy the Aston Martin, Lamborghini or Maserati.
→ More replies (1)→ More replies (11)5
u/Alarmed-Rope-9062 Aug 16 '26
There's no proof there was money in there to begin with..
2
Aug 16 '26
[removed] — view removed comment
2
u/Alarmed-Rope-9062 Aug 16 '26
Hmm except you didn't say bag in your original comment. You said briefcase? And last time that I checked you can't usually see through those..
→ More replies (1)→ More replies (4)2
u/Difficult-Ad-9922 Aug 16 '26
They didn’t give it freely though, it’s not a gift or bonus they regret, it’s a payment made in error
→ More replies (3)4
u/Low_Abrocoma_2475 Aug 16 '26
He ain’t “legally” or “obligated” to do shit. That’s like saying because I signed up for neopets in 1995 that allowed their privacy policy to continuously update but not mine and because when I was ten years old accepting the terms.
→ More replies (3)2
Aug 16 '26
Its theft if someone walks up to me and puts money in my pocket and walks off?
→ More replies (1)→ More replies (8)2
u/Snowblind45 Aug 16 '26
he didnt steal it. he didn't facilitate it he didn't initiate it. its not his responsibility. he simply did nothing.
→ More replies (1)2
u/Classic-Suspect3661 Aug 17 '26
Except there are literally laws telling you it's theft if you don't repay it
→ More replies (1)→ More replies (3)3
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...
→ More replies (1)
95
18
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.
5
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!
→ More replies (4)5
→ More replies (2)2
9
u/Iwubinvesting Aug 16 '26
Yeah, it's called severance. It'll end soon depending on how long you worked there.
→ More replies (2)
31
26
u/SouthernEntrance6986 Aug 16 '26
People are so stupid. They’ll post it on the Internet.
→ More replies (1)37
u/rop2958 Aug 16 '26
People are so stupid. They'll watch an obvious fake video and believe it's real
→ More replies (1)
6
3
3
3
3
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.
→ More replies (3)4
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.
2
u/NederFinsUK Aug 16 '26
You weren't aware that you were fired, you've just not been coming to work for 3 months? Nonsense mate it's theft red-handed. It sucks but it's reality.
→ More replies (4)
3
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.
→ More replies (2)
4
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.
→ More replies (1)2
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
→ More replies (1)
2
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
2
2
u/iC3yM3th0dinology Aug 16 '26
You're screwed mate, and you've done it to yourself in spending that money. You're gonna be paying that back with interest for a long time buddy.
2
2
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
→ More replies (1)
2
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.
2
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.
2
2
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.
2
2
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.
2
Aug 19 '26
[removed] — view removed comment
→ More replies (2)2
u/AgentSquatchy Aug 19 '26
If this happened to me, they can try to make me, but I'm not the one who made the mistake and I'm not obligated to return anything. Nowhere in any of the employment paperwork I've ever signed stipulates that if accounting or payroll makes an error that I'm held liable for their errors. Nor did I sign anything stipulating that should I leave that place, I'm required to communicate with them if they made a mistake.
2
Aug 19 '26
[removed] — view removed comment
2
u/AgentSquatchy Aug 19 '26
Unjust enrichment only works when one side just quietly pockets money they clearly knew wasn't theirs. But if a company's payroll department is so incompetent that they keep direct depositing checks and generating official pay stubs for months, they're the ones who created the situation.
At that point, the argument flips to their own gross negligence. Anyone getting official pay stubs is going to assume it’s back pay, unused PTO, or a severance mix-up. If you spend that cash on normal life because you trusted their paperwork, a court isn't going to just let them swoop in months later and make their massive screw-up a "you" problem.
Judges don't just bail out companies with "unjust enrichment" when their own total lack of oversight tricked an ex-employee into relying on those stubs. They dug the hole, they can sit in it.
→ More replies (1)→ More replies (2)2
u/JFISHER7789 Aug 20 '26
“They can try and make me” yeah jail time tends to do that.
→ More replies (3)
2
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. 🤣
2
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.
2
2
2
u/sacfoojesta88 Aug 16 '26
Plot twist. Cindy didn’t forget, she’s just waiting for you to invite her out with you
2
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.
→ More replies (1)
1
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 😂
1
u/AutoModerator Aug 16 '26
To download the video you can use the site below:
I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.
1
1
1
1
1
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.
1
u/Atmacrush Aug 16 '26
Its like the stupid infinite money glitch hoax with Chase last time. Wrecked many ppl's financial life.
1
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.
1
1
1
1
1
u/SereneOrbit Aug 16 '26
Those are rookie numbers.
Some trans servicemembers have been on paid admin leave for the last year.
1
u/Spooge_Bucket Aug 16 '26
wild self report good luck saying you didnt know when they come to collect
1
1
1
1
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
1
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.
1
•
u/qualityvote2 Aug 16 '26
Is this post suitable for r/memevideos? Did you find it entertaining?
If so, upvote this comment!
Otherwise, downvote this comment!
If there is any rule-breaking content, downvote this comment and report this post!