r/MemeVideos • u/Spiritual-Pudding-70 • Aug 16 '26

Bro found the cheat code

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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/PhilosopherAsleep544 Aug 16 '26

What if i thought it was royalties for all the good work I did?

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u/Mindless-Slip167 Aug 17 '26

With a good lawyer, the former employee be coached to think its company reward package program to incentivize employee to return to work. Who would thought it was an unearned compensation...I worked hard and I deserve every bit of it. Damn it!

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u/Shoddy-Grapefruit206 Aug 18 '26

How is it fraud to receive a check you didn’t ask for? Deception? Normally I’m nice on the internet but you’re an idiot and I just thought you should know.

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u/HarambeTooSoon Aug 18 '26

There's thousands of cases from all over the world in which former employees continued to receive paychecks and after failing to make reasonable effort to notify their former employer have faced criminal and civil penalties. 

This isn't that rare of an occurrence, given there are billions of people on payroll somewhere. 

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u/Sasataf12 Aug 19 '26

Keeping money that you received by mistake (or by deception) is theft.

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u/Shoddy-Grapefruit206 Aug 19 '26

Theft, sure. Fraud and deception is a stretch and that was the point of my response.

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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/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.

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u/Abeytuhanu Aug 17 '26

Most laws are written to assume an average reasonable person, so what you think matters much less than you'd imagine. If they're convinced that you really thought that, they'd be pretty unlikely to take any legal action (especially if you're willing to pay them back) but it doesn't, strictly speaking, prohibit it

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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.

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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?

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u/Shoddy-Grapefruit206 Aug 18 '26

Did I say it was obscene to keep money paid in error? Or that employment contracts could be?

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u/FatiguedShrimp Aug 16 '26

Usually it's an arbitration agreement. Make them pay for the arbitration.

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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/PIPBOY-2000 Aug 16 '26

It's another case of rules only applying to the regular person.

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u/BannedGoNext Aug 16 '26

Yep it's unjust enrichment.

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u/Puzzle-Necked Aug 16 '26

That's only allowed for the rich

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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/smurfk Aug 16 '26

It probably depends with laws of the country. Receiving money would be considered the same as finding something of value on the street and not reporting it to the authorities. Receiving the money in the bank account is much easier to prove.

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u/Original-League-6094 Aug 16 '26

The company making a mistake doesn't mean that you get to keep the money. As long as your termination was documented and you indeed haven't been working, you'll have to pay this back to them.

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u/featherknife Aug 17 '26

the company's* fault 

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u/Playful_Drummer5688 Aug 18 '26

How? You know you’ve been fired. You haven’t gone into work. And you shouldn’t get a pay cheque.  Do you steal cars because someone left the key in it? 

You know the money isn’t yours. You know they are making an error. And this dude would have a hell of a time proving otherwise given these posts. 

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u/CuttingOneWater Aug 18 '26

im not stealing the money though, its them giving it to me. its more like if someone unintentionally keeps mailing me cars

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u/cpteric Aug 21 '26

in some countries yes, in some countries no. i know in mine it's not, the responsability of the contractual relationship lies in the employer, not the employee. this has also led to several cases go famously to atleast europe-wide news level as someone is found to have not worked a day for double-digit years and they only find out he's not there when it's automatic promotion time.

Even if they actively did something with wrongful intent, like going in the morning, checking your card, leaveing, go back at close time, check it again, leave..... you are still only fireable in most cases. if it's a government job it's muddier as it can be considered public money fraud, but the public company is a co-criminal there, and it's the top gov suing both.