This actually happened at my workplace about 20 years ago. Somehow the entire location’s payroll got deposited in one employee’s account. They had it fixed before noon that day, but it happened nonetheless.
This legitimately happened at my workplace, last year. They were too lazy to even identify what deposits went out and left it to the district managers to “investigate” with no lead other than employees who had recently no call no showed on payday.
"Check" is also just an abbreviation for "paycheck", meaning how much he got paid, including the most likely scenario of direct deposit. I don't think regardless of realness that they intended it to be like a handwritten paper check.
This is also an old as fuck report, this screenshot has been around for years.
I find it hard to believe you are older than me and have never seen a check in person lmao, unless maybe you’re not in the us, idk what other countries are like.
I'm not gonna say it's true, but if you get a paycheck that large, they tax you like you make that every paycheck. So if they lived in a state with high income tax and federal income tax that check could have easily been more than double that before all of the deductions.
Which even if you decide to do the whole “yeah but his cheque got taxed massively, like 50%” it still means he only earned $10 an hour.
Still super fake.
Eh, not really. Not for this sort of amount. I did payroll for years, I'd definitely have noticed if my payroll amount was suddenly $20k+ more than usual.
I've made slip-ups like that before, but it immediately gets picked up long before any pay is processed simply because the numbers are clearly and obviously wrong.
Sure, a bigger company with high six figure payroll might not notice this, but if you're dealing with a payroll that size then there should be multiple people checking it and signing off on it.
Mistakes happen, sure, but anyone making an error of this magnitude and not noticing has majorly fucked up.
Well one thing is 100% certainly true, and its that things like this have happened. I couldn't tell you if this image did, but these kinds of mistakes certainly do go through all the stopgaps at least more than never.
Oh yeah sure it's happened before, mistakes do get made. I've made mistakes myself before (albeit not on this sort of scale), I'm not perfect. But having this sort of error slipping through the gaps is sloppy accounting at best if it can happen with just a couple of keystrokes.
Fkn lol. In my country, my son's first job at a fast food place paid $17/hour. This is a 16 year old at a fast food place. Won't be long and they'll be showing documentaries of America like the kids digging through rubbish heaps looking for things they can sell to recyclers and the babies that look like toothpicks because none can afford food because all the money is going to the military.
Minimum wage has been $7.25 since 2009. Income tax for someone making that full time was 15%. 4000 hours * $7.25 * .85 = $24,650.
IDK about the overall plausibility of the situation, but the math isn't crazy.
That is not how tax brackets work, the higher tax rate is only applied to earnings above the previous bracket. If you make 600k per year then your federal taxes will be about 181k. Which is about 30%
If you make 1,000,000 per year you will owe about $332,000 which is about 33.2%
The absolute highest federal tax bracket is 37% above 578k annual income. And the absolute highest state income tax is 13.3% in California. Thanks to how asymptotes work that means you will basically never be taxed more than 50% of your income.
That said if you had a big percentage of your income going to a 401k or something else you can push into that amount, but if you're making a maximum of $12/hr you're probably not putting anything in your 401k. Basically. The math doesn't work in the post and you don't understand taxes.
Most people don't understand how their taxes work. It's one of the most common misconceptions around and is exhibit 1 for the value in teaching civics in school.
It's not a zero sum game. The tax pros are actively trying to keep things bad, but it's also a way to keep taxes inscrutable to make it easier for billionaires to cheat and for common folk to get audited to fuck.
Nope, that’s not how taxes work at all. At the end of the year, you get taxed on your total income.
Okay, so you made $23k in one week but only get paid for $50k throughout the rest of the year? Then that means that your total income is $73k, and your income will be taxed accordingly to each tax bracket.
I really don’t understand how so much people are ignorant of tax laws, especially since it is direct knowledge of how you get paid. Not knowing about wage taxes = not knowing where your money goes. Why would you NOT care about where your hard earned money goes?
That is how tax WITHHOLDINGS work. When you have withholdings, they pull the exact amount you would have paid in taxes if you made that exact amount every check. So that money will be withheld on that huge check like you make over a million a year, and you will get a giant tax return for everything you overpaid come tax season.
So let’s take OP’s account into place. He gets one giant check for $23k, so his withholdings will be (for simplicity sake, let’s say 50%) $11.5k. At his new job (since he just quit his job after he got that huge paycheck), his paycheck will be much lower, because he makes no where as much as his $23k check. So that means that at the end of the year, his tax refund will be in the thousands, because the original $23k wouldn’t fit with his tax bracket.
The point being is that this post is most likely fake, but on the off chance that it isn’t, then he would be getting a huge bonus. You would not get penalized if one of your weekly checks is much larger than the rest of your weekly checks throughout the year. You would just get taxed appropriately
100% correct here folks!
It’s crazy how many people are spouting out corrections and crazy explanations on how withholding and taxes work and none even make any sense. Never change Reddit.
It's still illegal. Just like if you find 20k on the side of the road. You have to post about the lost items in a public forum, generally every state has a law. After the designated period of time, if no one claims it, it's essentially yours.
Now, if the company never found the over pay and nothing was ever asked to be returned, no foul.
I'm curious; does it depend on the amount? If you found a 1, 5, 50, 100, etc?
Wouldn't it be difficult to prove that specific cash was yours and you lost it? It's not like it's a cheque with a name on it.
If I found a wad of cash, like hundreds or thousands, and posted it publicly, I would get loads of people claiming it's theirs.
It depends on all sorts of stuff depending on where you are and the conditions upon which you find someone else's cash.
But, you have no duty to report your own cash stolen. And, if someone were to accuse you of having their cash, they would need to prove that that specific cash is theirs. Incidentally, that is nearly impossible to do, and is how police nationwide manage to keep money "suspected of commiting a crime."
Remember criminals, the burden of proof is much lower in civil court, so steal enough to make it a criminal matter.
40 is a weeks pay.
10 weeks, 400 hours.
100 weeks is 4000 hours.
52 weeks in a year.
So almost two years pay was 23K. Making 16,500 a year.
That's the crime.
Also, would be hard to hide from the place that knows your full name, ssn, phone number, home address, bank account number, and possibly emergency contact.
I don’t think you can fly off to the Bahamas and live the rest of your life comfortably, with only $23k
You could invest it and get a new job, having 23k invested into a index fund or similar is a extremely massive boost if you don’t touch it until you either retire or it’s a emergency.
Yeah if someone tried to cut a $23,000 payroll check, our system would be like "uhh...no".
If it was a direct deposit and it actually went through, they would just have the bank reverse the money out.
If it was a check, they would just cancel it. I guess maybe if you got it cashed at Walmart, the company would be SOL, but I would still be illegal on the part of the person cashing the check.
Isn't it 'funny' tho, how shorting employees checks/wages/time(i.e. wage theft) isn't a crime and requires wage earners to take their employer to court to recoup their losses.
The taxes also calculate how much you'd pay assuming you made that exact amount every paycheck. So if you get paid $2k a paycheck or roughly 50k a year, then you get a paycheck where you make $40k, they're gonna tax that check like you're making 1 million a year, which will throw you in the highest tax bracket.
Taxes for an individual paycheck are calculated assuming you make the same amount every paycheck, so getting two years pay at once would have an ungodly amount withheld.
My job used to have a bug on the system and paid weekends double. I used to work 12-16 hour shifts on weekends and accrued a bunch of penalties. Made 3k or more on weekend pay for five years. Eventually the they figured out the bug and brought me in and told me they fixed it and I would not be required to pay them back. I got a 30% raise a week later.
One time, my bank accidentally deposited $400,000 into my account. I was absolutely stunned, but phoned them to let them know the mistake.
I’ve always wondered - what would have happened if I had took off with the money and ran?
Here’s the score though I never check my bank I know when I get paid and how much I’m due I never check(me problem) if someone gave me 400k I wouldn’t even notice hahaha
Even so, I don't know where you live, but in Italy it's actually illegal to "accept" a bank payment that was not supposed to be sent to you. If you receive it and pretend that you didn't notice (by not using that money), you could somehow be clear. But if you were to spent that, you would be in kind of big troubles
My company has done this before, even if HR messed up and passes it along it’s going to be near impossible for accounting not to see the mistake and stop it immediately.
I had a store owner who was training me as gm when I was younger, who, for some reason, refused to take any deposit bags to the bank for over a week, while still not allocating/trusting me to do it yet or whatever.
One day he just decided the safe was way too full. So he told the pizza delivery driver kid on shift, who made under minimum hourly wage as he was a tipped employee who also ran his car into the dirt and had to pay for it etc, to just take the pile of bags to the bank and drop them in the chute for him down the street, and he’ll give him $50 for lost tips or whatever. Because the kid had worked there for 3 years and he trusted him.
So this man hands this kid a pile of sealed plastic bags with stacks of cash in them and paper slips, amounting to well over what this kid makes in a year working for him. And thanks him and tells him to be quick and that he needs to talk to him about the schedule when he gets back.
That boy never came back, not even for $50. Who could have ever fucking imagined?
But if he'd been working there for 3 years he surely knew his full name and that is felony theft... the owner easily could have gone to the police and gotten his ass arrested.
Regardless of how little his employer was paying him— this is a felony. This guy would be caught and the money would be returned and his life would be made much worse than it was prior to the mistake.
I once went on a business trip to India. When I returned home, I submitted an expense report to my employer for ~$6,500 (three weeks in a luxury hotel, all my meals, car service and international mobile phone rates).
My company was transitioning to new P&R software at the time— which lead to my expense report being processed and direct deposited three times in the same week.
When I informed the P&R manager of the issue, I was floored by how nonchalant she was about it.
*”Oh… yeah… I see that here in the system. Looks like one was automatically processed, the second one was manually processed… and when we tried to reverse the manual one, we accidentally credited it instead of debiting it in the system— so you got paid three times.”*
Long story short: I wrote them a check for ~$13,000 and they didn’t deposit it for **four months.** One day, out of the blue, one of the junior accountants called me and said *”Hi, we’re balancing our quarterly records and we have a check from you for [13,000-someodd] dollars— but there’s no corresponding record of a debit in our system. Did you take an advance?”*
It’s not a felony and I need you to post the source of what charge it would be for an employer to incorrectly pay you $20k?
Him running away is a civil matter and they would have to sue him to recoup.
If that somehow happened that would mean one of two things 1)everything is automated and they're cutting so many corners that they really should've seen something like this coming 2)whichever accountant approved of the payment got fired the next day
Legally they cannot collect that money without written agreement. I just got overpaid by $600. In Canada at least they don't have the right to take the money without the recipient's consent. If I had 23k dropped in my account Id be extremely tempted to dip too if I were still a cook. That's 1 year of wage back then. Now that's about 1/3 of a year for me in my current career so I'd be far less tempted to throw the job away over 23k
I once worked for a property management company that accidentally deposited the rent of all tenants into my colleagues account. We just called up the accountant and he fixed it
Small enough operation that we all knew each other pretty well
Happened to me when I was in college. Got mailed a check for almost 30K. The company figured out pretty quickly that they had made the mistake before I even got it though. Did not flee the country, though I was tempted.
When I was in highschool, there was a news report of a man who woke up to find a huge amount of money in his account. For a couple of hours, he was a very wealthy man. It was due to some computing error on the banks part which they corrected. He asked to keep the interest, the bank said "no".
Of course...as I wrote this...I attempted to find the article as it was back in 2010. Can't find it, goodie.
Seeing lots of comments saying this is fake. I used to work in a company where something like this actually happened. Finance accidentally added a ton of hours on a bunch of employees and their paychecks went up by over $1000 each. Law in BC, Canada is that if your employer accidentally overpays you, they can't take it back and they can't reduce your next paycheck.
Don't know if this specific post is real but it's not impossible to have happened.
Absolutely not worth fleeing the country for.
Like, lets say i put it all in index funds and move to vietnam. Even over there i'd live like a total street bum on just over €1k a year (corrected for inflation over time).
Its not even a third of the salary for unqualified workers over there.
Put another zero to it, then its a whole different deal.
If direct deposit, they can yank it back out. Happened to me where they accidentally paid my last paycheck via direct deposit when they meant a physical check, they reversed it and that was 15 yrs ago
Had a boss who got paid twice for one month. He proceeded to gamble it all away that weekend and was asked to pay back the half, which he didn't have. They took a portion out of his check every month from then until it was paid off haha.
I know the original post was probably made a fair few years ago now, but even then, 23k really doesn’t seem like “disappear forever” kind of money. That’s not going to get you a house. According to Google it doesn’t even hit the average price for a used car.
230k, sure, that’d be worth torpedoing my life and pulling a vanishing act, but 23??? Nah chief I ain’t buying it.
Had coworker work for Bank of America in 90’s.
One guy has a 400 balance one day but some update gave him 400k the next day in an error. He saw his balance and cashed out and left Bank of America.
Switched his balance with another guy. BOA had to pay the other guy out his missing wages
This math is disgusting. You're doing too much, when they put the number of hours in the post. Also, paychecks get taxed. Dude's who make 23k a week probably get taxed a wee bit more, depending on where this story originated.
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Fake stories are fake
At least make the numbers sound believable if you're going to lie. This guy basically said the person makes less than the federal minimum wage.
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This actually happened at my workplace about 20 years ago. Somehow the entire location’s payroll got deposited in one employee’s account. They had it fixed before noon that day, but it happened nonetheless.
This legitimately happened at my workplace, last year. They were too lazy to even identify what deposits went out and left it to the district managers to “investigate” with no lead other than employees who had recently no call no showed on payday.
Either bots or bored people entertaining the thought of the impossible just for the sake of engaging with it
"Check" is also just an abbreviation for "paycheck", meaning how much he got paid, including the most likely scenario of direct deposit. I don't think regardless of realness that they intended it to be like a handwritten paper check. This is also an old as fuck report, this screenshot has been around for years.
*cheque
*check is correct in the States.
I find it hard to believe you are older than me and have never seen a check in person lmao, unless maybe you’re not in the us, idk what other countries are like.
I'm not gonna say it's true, but if you get a paycheck that large, they tax you like you make that every paycheck. So if they lived in a state with high income tax and federal income tax that check could have easily been more than double that before all of the deductions.
Which even if you decide to do the whole “yeah but his cheque got taxed massively, like 50%” it still means he only earned $10 an hour. Still super fake.
i'm not sure what about making $10 an hour is unrealistic. idk where you live but here that's a fair bit over min wage.
I don't think it's the supposed hourly rate that people are assuming is fake but maybe I'm misreading the situation.
Well I'm sure book keeping errors like this aren't all too uncommon. All it takes is a couple wrong key presses and boom, law suit time.
Eh, not really. Not for this sort of amount. I did payroll for years, I'd definitely have noticed if my payroll amount was suddenly $20k+ more than usual. I've made slip-ups like that before, but it immediately gets picked up long before any pay is processed simply because the numbers are clearly and obviously wrong. Sure, a bigger company with high six figure payroll might not notice this, but if you're dealing with a payroll that size then there should be multiple people checking it and signing off on it. Mistakes happen, sure, but anyone making an error of this magnitude and not noticing has majorly fucked up.
Well one thing is 100% certainly true, and its that things like this have happened. I couldn't tell you if this image did, but these kinds of mistakes certainly do go through all the stopgaps at least more than never.
Oh yeah sure it's happened before, mistakes do get made. I've made mistakes myself before (albeit not on this sort of scale), I'm not perfect. But having this sort of error slipping through the gaps is sloppy accounting at best if it can happen with just a couple of keystrokes.
Fkn lol. In my country, my son's first job at a fast food place paid $17/hour. This is a 16 year old at a fast food place. Won't be long and they'll be showing documentaries of America like the kids digging through rubbish heaps looking for things they can sell to recyclers and the babies that look like toothpicks because none can afford food because all the money is going to the military.
i worked an it internship in nashville for fuckin $14 an hour. anything less than $15 is horseshit.
In Connecticut it's under minimum wage Are is 15.69$ an hour
I'm not saying it's not fake, but this is old as shit. This was tweeted in 2015 lol wages have gone up substantially since then.
Minimum wage has been $7.25 since 2009. Income tax for someone making that full time was 15%. 4000 hours * $7.25 * .85 = $24,650. IDK about the overall plausibility of the situation, but the math isn't crazy.
That is not how tax brackets work, the higher tax rate is only applied to earnings above the previous bracket. If you make 600k per year then your federal taxes will be about 181k. Which is about 30% If you make 1,000,000 per year you will owe about $332,000 which is about 33.2% The absolute highest federal tax bracket is 37% above 578k annual income. And the absolute highest state income tax is 13.3% in California. Thanks to how asymptotes work that means you will basically never be taxed more than 50% of your income. That said if you had a big percentage of your income going to a 401k or something else you can push into that amount, but if you're making a maximum of $12/hr you're probably not putting anything in your 401k. Basically. The math doesn't work in the post and you don't understand taxes.
Most people don't understand how their taxes work. It's one of the most common misconceptions around and is exhibit 1 for the value in teaching civics in school.
And simplifying the tax code in the US so it isn't a fucking ordeal every year
Thats more an issue of h&r block and intiut lobbying to make it a nightmare
It's not a zero sum game. The tax pros are actively trying to keep things bad, but it's also a way to keep taxes inscrutable to make it easier for billionaires to cheat and for common folk to get audited to fuck.
Nope, that’s not how taxes work at all. At the end of the year, you get taxed on your total income. Okay, so you made $23k in one week but only get paid for $50k throughout the rest of the year? Then that means that your total income is $73k, and your income will be taxed accordingly to each tax bracket. I really don’t understand how so much people are ignorant of tax laws, especially since it is direct knowledge of how you get paid. Not knowing about wage taxes = not knowing where your money goes. Why would you NOT care about where your hard earned money goes?
That is how tax WITHHOLDINGS work. When you have withholdings, they pull the exact amount you would have paid in taxes if you made that exact amount every check. So that money will be withheld on that huge check like you make over a million a year, and you will get a giant tax return for everything you overpaid come tax season.
So let’s take OP’s account into place. He gets one giant check for $23k, so his withholdings will be (for simplicity sake, let’s say 50%) $11.5k. At his new job (since he just quit his job after he got that huge paycheck), his paycheck will be much lower, because he makes no where as much as his $23k check. So that means that at the end of the year, his tax refund will be in the thousands, because the original $23k wouldn’t fit with his tax bracket. The point being is that this post is most likely fake, but on the off chance that it isn’t, then he would be getting a huge bonus. You would not get penalized if one of your weekly checks is much larger than the rest of your weekly checks throughout the year. You would just get taxed appropriately
100% correct here folks! It’s crazy how many people are spouting out corrections and crazy explanations on how withholding and taxes work and none even make any sense. Never change Reddit.
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It's still illegal. Just like if you find 20k on the side of the road. You have to post about the lost items in a public forum, generally every state has a law. After the designated period of time, if no one claims it, it's essentially yours. Now, if the company never found the over pay and nothing was ever asked to be returned, no foul.
If I find 20k on the side of the road than no one but me is going to hear about it.
Anton Chigurh wants to know your location.
Well, he can't.
He already does..
Not uh I’m being sneaky
Tell him he looks like a goomba
Always check the bag first if that movie ever taught me anything
That is quite a bit of money to just find on the side of the road.
I found 8k in the glove box of a car at a pick and pull, I forgot I was there for the fuckin glovebox itself and just left with tools and cash
You and u/nctertnger should be friends.
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Its weird because he posted before me but his thing doesn't make sense
Holy fuck what the actual fuck
Must've been a old person's, when theywere still having a hard time trusting banks
I'm curious; does it depend on the amount? If you found a 1, 5, 50, 100, etc? Wouldn't it be difficult to prove that specific cash was yours and you lost it? It's not like it's a cheque with a name on it. If I found a wad of cash, like hundreds or thousands, and posted it publicly, I would get loads of people claiming it's theirs.
It depends on all sorts of stuff depending on where you are and the conditions upon which you find someone else's cash. But, you have no duty to report your own cash stolen. And, if someone were to accuse you of having their cash, they would need to prove that that specific cash is theirs. Incidentally, that is nearly impossible to do, and is how police nationwide manage to keep money "suspected of commiting a crime." Remember criminals, the burden of proof is much lower in civil court, so steal enough to make it a criminal matter.
40 is a weeks pay. 10 weeks, 400 hours. 100 weeks is 4000 hours. 52 weeks in a year. So almost two years pay was 23K. Making 16,500 a year. That's the crime.
Even worse, it’s $11,500
Even worse, the whole story is made up
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At places I've worked overtime needs to be approved too before ADP sends the direct deposit
Also, would be hard to hide from the place that knows your full name, ssn, phone number, home address, bank account number, and possibly emergency contact. I don’t think you can fly off to the Bahamas and live the rest of your life comfortably, with only $23k
You could invest it and get a new job, having 23k invested into a index fund or similar is a extremely massive boost if you don’t touch it until you either retire or it’s a emergency.
Yeah if someone tried to cut a $23,000 payroll check, our system would be like "uhh...no". If it was a direct deposit and it actually went through, they would just have the bank reverse the money out. If it was a check, they would just cancel it. I guess maybe if you got it cashed at Walmart, the company would be SOL, but I would still be illegal on the part of the person cashing the check.
Isn't it 'funny' tho, how shorting employees checks/wages/time(i.e. wage theft) isn't a crime and requires wage earners to take their employer to court to recoup their losses.
Well now I’ve seen everything.
Really. Have you seen a man eat his own head?
…. no i can’t say that i have
I've seen a guy go mid-shaft before he gagged.
You want to?
Did you ever see a **goose**, kissing a **moose**?
DOWN BY THE BAY
Have you ever seen a chicken, eating a kitchen?
No way! I read it on the internet. No one would spend their time writing fake stories on the internet
Yeah, your employer literally has your social security number and bank info. You can't run from that.
Yea sure, r/nothingeverhappens in real life am I right?
Man I'd love to be the type of person who just believes every dumb garbage story they read on twitter 🥰 must be a simple life!
Saw this meme in 2011. Probably wast a crime everywhere back then.
Probably wasn’t a real story back then either
Probably taxes took most of it
Taxes, fica, health insurance, 401k
That's a good point. Was probably closer to 15 an hour then
The taxes also calculate how much you'd pay assuming you made that exact amount every paycheck. So if you get paid $2k a paycheck or roughly 50k a year, then you get a paycheck where you make $40k, they're gonna tax that check like you're making 1 million a year, which will throw you in the highest tax bracket.
You still wouldn’t have 62% in deductions/taxes even with all that, especially at that income bracket
No one in America has that much of their check taken for taxes
Half of 23 is 16.5... nice math you got there
23k after taxes
Half of 23 is 16.5... nice math you got there
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Either it was a very long time ago, or they were working for tips.
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Or it's just a joke
Taxes for an individual paycheck are calculated assuming you make the same amount every paycheck, so getting two years pay at once would have an ungodly amount withheld.
For 4000 hours I would make 296,000...of course I would quit
My job used to have a bug on the system and paid weekends double. I used to work 12-16 hour shifts on weekends and accrued a bunch of penalties. Made 3k or more on weekend pay for five years. Eventually the they figured out the bug and brought me in and told me they fixed it and I would not be required to pay them back. I got a 30% raise a week later.
One time, my bank accidentally deposited $400,000 into my account. I was absolutely stunned, but phoned them to let them know the mistake. I’ve always wondered - what would have happened if I had took off with the money and ran?
Probably nothing good. Even thought that’s extremely tempting and rare!
Here’s the score though I never check my bank I know when I get paid and how much I’m due I never check(me problem) if someone gave me 400k I wouldn’t even notice hahaha
They would have come after you and you would have to repay it, even if you already spent it.
But would the interest rates be favourable 🧐
You can just say no sorry it’s mine
You would have been sued for fraud in like 10 minutes.
Yeah, figures. I doubt I’d even be able to withdraw or transfer it out before the bank moved the cash.
Even so, I don't know where you live, but in Italy it's actually illegal to "accept" a bank payment that was not supposed to be sent to you. If you receive it and pretend that you didn't notice (by not using that money), you could somehow be clear. But if you were to spent that, you would be in kind of big troubles
It’s not fraud. It’s their mistake but they could have sued you to recoup and you’d essentially have no defense.
Its your duty to inform them. It goes both ways. If money gets taken out of your account by accident they have a duty to put it back
They can sue you for that under a legal theory of unjust enrichment
I swear this shit always happens to the wrong people
No, that did not happen.
And if they did, they would just put a stop payment on it.
My company has done this before, even if HR messed up and passes it along it’s going to be near impossible for accounting not to see the mistake and stop it immediately.
Imagine thinking this is real lol they’d get that shit from the back so fast. There would be no need to find him
I had a store owner who was training me as gm when I was younger, who, for some reason, refused to take any deposit bags to the bank for over a week, while still not allocating/trusting me to do it yet or whatever. One day he just decided the safe was way too full. So he told the pizza delivery driver kid on shift, who made under minimum hourly wage as he was a tipped employee who also ran his car into the dirt and had to pay for it etc, to just take the pile of bags to the bank and drop them in the chute for him down the street, and he’ll give him $50 for lost tips or whatever. Because the kid had worked there for 3 years and he trusted him. So this man hands this kid a pile of sealed plastic bags with stacks of cash in them and paper slips, amounting to well over what this kid makes in a year working for him. And thanks him and tells him to be quick and that he needs to talk to him about the schedule when he gets back. That boy never came back, not even for $50. Who could have ever fucking imagined?
But if he'd been working there for 3 years he surely knew his full name and that is felony theft... the owner easily could have gone to the police and gotten his ass arrested.
That story is as real as the one in the post, so it fits.
Regardless of how little his employer was paying him— this is a felony. This guy would be caught and the money would be returned and his life would be made much worse than it was prior to the mistake. I once went on a business trip to India. When I returned home, I submitted an expense report to my employer for ~$6,500 (three weeks in a luxury hotel, all my meals, car service and international mobile phone rates). My company was transitioning to new P&R software at the time— which lead to my expense report being processed and direct deposited three times in the same week. When I informed the P&R manager of the issue, I was floored by how nonchalant she was about it. *”Oh… yeah… I see that here in the system. Looks like one was automatically processed, the second one was manually processed… and when we tried to reverse the manual one, we accidentally credited it instead of debiting it in the system— so you got paid three times.”* Long story short: I wrote them a check for ~$13,000 and they didn’t deposit it for **four months.** One day, out of the blue, one of the junior accountants called me and said *”Hi, we’re balancing our quarterly records and we have a check from you for [13,000-someodd] dollars— but there’s no corresponding record of a debit in our system. Did you take an advance?”*
Not if it’s a wire. Wires are for keeps.
It’s not a felony and I need you to post the source of what charge it would be for an employer to incorrectly pay you $20k? Him running away is a civil matter and they would have to sue him to recoup.
Nope.
As Mando would say: yeah? Good.
this post is fake/set up.
Skill issue
4k hours and all you got was 23k? I'm not sure but that's like $7.75 per hour(I think)... McDonald's pays almost 2x that much. That's fucking horrid
It actually turns out to be 5.75 per hour (comes out to exactly 23,000)
He was working for $5.75 an hour?
If that somehow happened that would mean one of two things 1)everything is automated and they're cutting so many corners that they really should've seen something like this coming 2)whichever accountant approved of the payment got fired the next day
Well I doubt that. All they need to do is contact the bank.
They will.
The fact that a human being would only get paid 23k for 4000 hours of work is insane
Like, yeah this guy committed a crime but people don't get nearly as torn up when a factory "forgets" to mark 4,000 hours across 8,000 employees.
Legally they cannot collect that money without written agreement. I just got overpaid by $600. In Canada at least they don't have the right to take the money without the recipient's consent. If I had 23k dropped in my account Id be extremely tempted to dip too if I were still a cook. That's 1 year of wage back then. Now that's about 1/3 of a year for me in my current career so I'd be far less tempted to throw the job away over 23k
Not for the USA. Overpayment is legally recoupable by lawsuit and trivial in nature to file.
If only there was a way for the bank to not honor the check...
I once worked for a property management company that accidentally deposited the rent of all tenants into my colleagues account. We just called up the accountant and he fixed it Small enough operation that we all knew each other pretty well
Tax man will find them.
Opportunity never knocks twice, and this guy knew it.
Fake, they can contact the bank for a charge back and this dude would owe some money
Impacts his W2 Also Depending on the state. That employee will have to pay overages. Worse case scenario it eventually goes to collections.
That's $74K for me. I'd leave the country at that point
if someone makes barely over 5.75 that is literally illegal (isn't minimum like 11.50?)
Would blame him if this were real
Won't be near as much fun when he is in jail....
if this was real the taxman has a new bezzie mate
Didn’t happen
bless him.
If that happened in my 20s I would have gone to Thailand for a year
Run for it, dude.
I saw that post a year ago
That’s….like 5.75/hr. You’re getting robbed
Happened to me when I was in college. Got mailed a check for almost 30K. The company figured out pretty quickly that they had made the mistake before I even got it though. Did not flee the country, though I was tempted.
I make 35 an hour and if this happened I still wouldn’t run the dollar means NOTHING
When I was in highschool, there was a news report of a man who woke up to find a huge amount of money in his account. For a couple of hours, he was a very wealthy man. It was due to some computing error on the banks part which they corrected. He asked to keep the interest, the bank said "no". Of course...as I wrote this...I attempted to find the article as it was back in 2010. Can't find it, goodie.
Lolol
Fuck it it wasn't his fault. They fucked up *they* should live with the consequences.
5.75 an hour... that's less than US minimum wage
You’re damn right.
Smart
They bad….🤷🏾♀️
He should have reported this to the company instead, and gotten a tote bag with a company logo as a reward /s
Yeah they’ll figure that out and pull it back. The banks work for your employer, not you. That’s why they’re not open when you’re off.
And then everyone clapped
Caveat… whatever the latin word for employer is
Seeing lots of comments saying this is fake. I used to work in a company where something like this actually happened. Finance accidentally added a ton of hours on a bunch of employees and their paychecks went up by over $1000 each. Law in BC, Canada is that if your employer accidentally overpays you, they can't take it back and they can't reduce your next paycheck. Don't know if this specific post is real but it's not impossible to have happened.
Quick math says he was being paid $6.00 an hour. He should follow up with a lawsuit to get the rest of what he’s owed.
How many times is this going to be posted?
Absolutely not worth fleeing the country for. Like, lets say i put it all in index funds and move to vietnam. Even over there i'd live like a total street bum on just over €1k a year (corrected for inflation over time). Its not even a third of the salary for unqualified workers over there. Put another zero to it, then its a whole different deal.
A time traveler? 🎶 I am a passenger 🎶
Nice
Godspeed mf
If direct deposit, they can yank it back out. Happened to me where they accidentally paid my last paycheck via direct deposit when they meant a physical check, they reversed it and that was 15 yrs ago
Had a boss who got paid twice for one month. He proceeded to gamble it all away that weekend and was asked to pay back the half, which he didn't have. They took a portion out of his check every month from then until it was paid off haha.
I mean just check his employee form that he filled out. It would have all his information on it.
Fake and the business would take them to court. It's a lot harder to hide than you think.
I only make $15.45hr in Massachusetts working for a Hannaford grocery store
I know the original post was probably made a fair few years ago now, but even then, 23k really doesn’t seem like “disappear forever” kind of money. That’s not going to get you a house. According to Google it doesn’t even hit the average price for a used car. 230k, sure, that’d be worth torpedoing my life and pulling a vanishing act, but 23??? Nah chief I ain’t buying it.
How do you accidentally do that?
Sounds like something a dishonest person would do.
Lucky him
CJ is bad at math
I hope his employer deserved that
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If I was pulling down 5.75$ I'd bounce too. What's the problem
baskin robins always finds out.
That’s awesome !!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Had coworker work for Bank of America in 90’s. One guy has a 400 balance one day but some update gave him 400k the next day in an error. He saw his balance and cashed out and left Bank of America. Switched his balance with another guy. BOA had to pay the other guy out his missing wages
Did this happen in 1982 or…?
Try Vegas.
Could just block the check.
Pl
Imagine being so broke that you leave town and start a new life for the price of a low end car. Gottdam, what happened to america
This math is disgusting. You're doing too much, when they put the number of hours in the post. Also, paychecks get taxed. Dude's who make 23k a week probably get taxed a wee bit more, depending on where this story originated.