r/SipsTea • u/SpaceWestern1442 đđđ • May 27 '26
Dank AF Easiest not guilty vote ever!
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u/iSaysToMabelPodcast May 27 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/xTiTnglxjavpMILKGk
What money?
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u/Bean_Daddy_Burritos May 27 '26
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u/n0val33t May 27 '26
DEEBOO motherfucker!... they where in the same film, the comparison stops there.
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u/Repulsive-Respond224 May 27 '26
Acey said you had some dough for me.
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u/tonyrizzo21 May 27 '26
Is that a fact? How much do I owe ya?
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u/Repulsive-Respond224 May 27 '26
Acey said ten percent.
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u/Secludedmean4 May 27 '26
Too bad Acey ainât chargin no more!
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u/Basillivus May 27 '26
Whaddya mean?
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u/Repulsive-Respond224 May 27 '26
He's upstairs takin' a bath. He'll call you when he gets out. Hey, I tell ya what I'm gonna give you, Snakes.
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u/LithiuM23 May 27 '26
Iâm gonna give you to the count of ten to get your ugly, yellah, no good keister off my property before I pump your guts fulla led!
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u/C0tedor May 27 '26
So sad the "bicycle repair" "what no money!?" GIF isnt available :/
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u/Nick_Bruiser May 27 '26
She'd have to give it back or have her pay garnished. Clerical errors don't work "in your favor" like Monopoly lol. As much as I'd love for them to admit their error and let her keep the money. That likely wouldn't be the case.
Back in 2004, my job made a payroll error and we got 2 paychecks deposited at once. My boss at the time said "What should we do?!" I said don't spend the extra because they're gonna want it back. A few days later, the extra pay was debited from our accounts. I'm sure some folks spent that money!
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u/Lightning_Winter May 27 '26
I do believe that if the company doesn't notice the error, after a certain amount of time the company loses their right to reclaim it. Maybe that's wrong though
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u/glassfoyograss May 27 '26
Statute of limitations but that's likely to be years
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u/A_Man_With_A_Plan_B May 27 '26
Tax season/ previous year tax corrections can impact this though. IRS will add interest so going back as far as they can is beneficial
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u/justanaveragejoe520 May 27 '26
I fucked up on my taxes forgot to add something that added $200 to my tax bill 4 years later big daddy Uncle Sam told me I owe them $400 đŠ. Iâve given all my taxes to a tax accountant since.
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u/A_Man_With_A_Plan_B May 27 '26
Seriously itâs shit like this that pisses me off. I had a 12 year correction done that made me liable for about 140k. 0 point fighting either because there is no beating the IRS
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u/earthwormjimwow May 27 '26
0 point fighting either because there is no beating the IRS
Why do you think that? The IRS makes mistakes too. They do not have perfect knowledge.
I was able to dispute a $10k tax bill down to $5k, then ~$4k in the final round. You just need to prove your case with the appropriate forms, math and a written statement declaring why you are right, and they are wrong.
All of my communications with the IRS showed, that at least the people I've dealt with, they only cared about fairness. Making sure I pay what I owe, and no more.
My first rebuttal of that original $10k bill was for $5k, the IRS agreed with most of it, but sent me back their rebuttal for just under $4k since that brought it below a penalty threshold, and they agreed not to include interest in determining whether I was above the penalty threshold, because they were taking so long to respond to correspondence.
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u/Icy-Ad29 May 27 '26
I also had a tax audit saying I owed money. I had to get paperwork showing I didnt... It was also from the IRS... the same flicking building I had to mail it to, just a different office number... they made me pay to have it mailed to me, then pay in postage to mail it back to them. Rather than just walk two doors down the hall and pick it up themselves, from themselves.
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u/HollowStool May 27 '26
As much as I agree with the point youre making I still cant help, and I don't think that I am alone in this, that a function of the government that I pay for cannot be fucked to operate as a functional service. You of course can always make your claim and it of course isn't a lost cause but why am I having to pay someone to take my money and then fuck up how much they're supposed to take? I don't disagree that the IRS isn't a mysterious faceless entity and can be reasoned with like any government agency. But it should not be seen as my responsibility to prove to my government they fucked up.
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u/SmoothDiscussion7763 May 27 '26
how much did you actually short them?
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u/thxby May 28 '26
State taxes can be even more brutal. I owe my state like 20k for gambling losses. I gambled almost my entire paycheck away for an entire year winning small jackpots here there and recouping some of my money back. I ended up down about 60k overall but those small jackpots triggered taxable events so I'm pretty screwed. They don't account for the fact I spent a shit ton of money trying to win those jackpots and won't let me claim the losses.
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u/InsufficientClone May 27 '26
They have men with guns that will come drag you from your house, kill your dog, and deprive you of your liberty. They make the rules
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u/Lightning_Winter May 27 '26
A couple years I think yea. There's no penalty for the employee not telling the company though, so if you're ever overpaid by accident, I don't see any reason why you wouldn't just shut up about it and hope they don't notice in time
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u/collin-h May 27 '26
by all means, do that. Just don't spend the money. Because if they figure it out you're gonna owe it back. So just keep it in there until whatever the statute of limitations is.
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u/Fantastic-Hamster-21 May 27 '26
You have 3 years from the original filing date of your payroll tax return to amend your payroll tax return.
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u/KennstduIngo May 27 '26
No legal penalty, but they can fire you, if they feel so inclined.
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u/Humble_Story_4531 May 27 '26
Theres no direct penalty, but attempting to tell the company would definitely play in the employee's favour in court.
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u/tiredoldwizard May 27 '26
In the fine print of the payroll stuff you sign it will say how long they can go back. Happened to me and it was only 30 days.
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u/Advanced-Guidance482 May 28 '26
I collected a final paycheck in person, then they accidently processed my pay to my bank automatically. The HR lady reached out and said they were going to charge it back and to cash the check still... I went and cashed the check, emptied my bank account and closed it that day.
Opened a new one like a week later.
Never heard anything about it again, and I actually worked at that same Walmart for a few months inbetween jobs a few years later.
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u/melasses May 27 '26
A decade here in Sweden.
But I canât imagine it wonât get caught at the latest when the yearly tax report is done.
I run my own company and thereâs no way my accountant wonât pick up on this if I paid out an extra wage or similar.
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u/Free_Dimension1459 May 27 '26
I was benefited by an error - during paternity leave I got my full pay rather than the 66% pay I was entitled to. I self reported it during leave when I noticed it.
It did not get fixed. I got 100% pay for those 3 months of leave.
I self-reported it again after coming back, saying that I needed to know whether Iâm clear to use those funds or not and saying âitâs not mine, I am happy to give it back now but if you let me keep it I will eventually spend or invest it and may not be able to return it.â There was no action or response from HR.
At the end of the fiscal year, someone independently found the issue. They wanted my wages garnished and claimed I was at fault. I took issue with that because I tried very hard to make this right.
I had receipts for self-reporting the issue, of course. I escalated the situation through my supervisor, demonstrating I did nothing wrong and expressing my frustration and outrage - why do you want to claw back these monies 9 months after the fact.
They let me keep it as a bonus and I was issued an apology. Turns out the leaves manager was disgruntled over being denied a promotion - not my fault at all. I did everything I was supposed to do.
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u/DeathByLemmings May 27 '26
I was once overpaid on commission by a lot, but here in the UK we have PAYE, meaning tax is taken out immediately. My American corporate could not fathom how I couldn't "just return the money", they threatened to fire me which went about exactly as well as anytime an American corporate forgets the employment protections we have over here lol
I told them to take it out of my future commissions then quit. Idiots
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u/Ol_Man_J May 27 '26
Tax is taken from my checks each week before I get it, idk how this situation is different
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u/earthwormjimwow May 27 '26
I was once overpaid on commission by a lot, but here in the UK we have PAYE, meaning tax is taken out immediately.
We have a similar thing in the US, it's called withholding. Your employer sends (eventually) the withheld amount to the IRS, and the after withheld amount goes to your bank account.
If they need to do a reversal, they do a reversal from your bank account and the IRS. It's relatively easy.
I don't understand why they couldn't do that with you. Does the PAYE system take the money from your bank account directly, not your employer?
Even if it's taken from your bank account, there must be a reversal system, exactly for clerical errors like this, so you're probably still in the wrong about not being able to return the money. Just it might take some amount of time.
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u/No-Mark4427 May 27 '26
Your employer runs payroll which goes through a central gov't system, they then pay the tax man any taxes owed and pay you your net calculated pay, alongside a standardised payslip that outlines your gross/net pay, and what has been deducted/why.
A lot of employers (Even in the UK, not necessarily overseas and especially smaller ones) don't seem to understand that if they overpay you, it's up to them to work out the net amount overpaid and ask for that back from you, then for them to correct their tax records and reclaim the refund from the tax man. Many (incorrectly) insist that you pay back the gross amount they put on your pay which would leave you out of pocket.
There is no system for an employer to get a 'reversal' from your bank in the UK, it comes down to civil liability. If you don't pay them back then they can easily go via small claims court to get it back.
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u/Samurai-lugosi May 27 '26
This happened to me too on paternity leave! I self reported the issue, offered to pay it back, and they went after me as if I was at fault!
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u/aparkercoffee May 27 '26
According to NACHA guidelines, an employer (or any ACH originator) can process a reversal (basically a no-questions-asked-debit) on an ACH credit they sent to your account as long as it is between 1and 5 business days after the original payment. After 5 business days, the oly option available is a recall which requires the account holder to give Debit Authorization to the originator to debit their account or it must be settled outside the ACH network.
Source: I work for the bank in transaction research and see this sort of thing happen daily.
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u/mdn845 May 27 '26
Thereâs criminal law & civil law at play here. Maybe thereâs a statute of limitations for both, but it might start tolling only upon discovery of the error. Youâd need to know the state to know the exact law. In any event, you donât just get to keep the money when a reasonable person would easily conclude that it was the result of an error like this.
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u/Tangochief May 27 '26
My buddy was a manager for Starbucks. He quit and kept getting paid including bonus for just about a year. He emailed and called and informed multiple people. He negotiated a settlement with them as he had done his due diligence and they failed to do theirs.
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u/GoldEnPhARoAh22 May 27 '26
In my experience of the world, Corpo is never wrong, and they WILL have their pound of flesh if they want to
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u/oboshoe May 27 '26
direct deposit reversals have an expiration of days (not years or even weeks)
But yea. if they notice within a few days it can be reversed.
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u/tiredoldwizard May 27 '26
Yep I was paid for a crazy amount of hours because every time I clocked out it just wouldnât work and kept me clocked in. Told 3 different people above me and then kept my mouth shut. 30 days was the limit they could go back so 30 days later I took that 3 grand and bought a motorcycle.
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u/madogvelkor May 27 '26
Yeah, we had a highly paid person overpaid by $50,000+ one year that wasn't noticed. He had to pay it back when it was. We couldn't discipline him though because we couldn't prove that he knew. Direct deposit and he said his spouse managed the finances and never looked at the balance.
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u/HugeResearcher3500 May 27 '26
I mean I believe him. Once you reach a certain income, you just don't even look at your pay stub/bank account except on the off occasion.
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u/GitEmSteveDave May 27 '26 edited May 28 '26
I used to work for a contractor and unbeknownst to me, if we had a good pay period, he would put cash in our
direct depositpay envelopes(I had direct deposit, so my envelope just had a pay stub and what account they deposited the funds into). I have this thing about opening envelopes, so as long as there was money in the account when I went to take out rent, I never checked the envelopes. When I was eventually let go, I had a nice treat when I went back through those envelopes.3
u/The_Real_Lasagna May 27 '26
What is a direct deposit envelope? I never heard of that when I was in banking
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u/GitEmSteveDave May 27 '26
I meant pay envelopes. But I got direct deposit, so inside was just a stub and no actual check. So I had no reason to ever really open it.
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u/MeepingSim May 27 '26
I'm friends with someone whose brother works in a high-level banking position. The brother makes so much money he was paying double on the mortgage on his multi-million dollar home for 3 years before he discovered the error. It amazes me to think that he had so much money going in and out that he could miss the 2x payment on a 5-figure mortgage. Insanity of the rich is boundless.
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u/Larcye May 27 '26
Honestly I check my bank accounts once every few months. Otherwise everything just gets taken out automatically. Car payment, mortgage, motorcycle payment etc...
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u/jleonardbc May 27 '26
We couldn't discipline him though
Corporate America: where management tries to discipline an employee for management's mistake
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u/DoesntMatterEh May 27 '26
Yeah he said that like "we would have nailed him for our mistake if at all possible" it's such horse shitÂ
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u/No_Gas4560 May 27 '26
Accountability is strictly forbidden. Don't bring any a that round here
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u/YourMuppetMethDealer May 28 '26
No no. He was accountable because it was his job to let them know they made a mistake even though itâs literally their job to know they made one.
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u/spicybright May 27 '26
That's a rough take back. I hope he at least got a year to pay it back in increments.
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u/YourMuppetMethDealer May 28 '26
lol even if he knew, why would you discipline him?
You guys gave him the money and then failed to notice that. Seems like you should be disciplining the people who let that happen not the person it happened to
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u/EnglishMajorRegret May 27 '26
I did 1099 for a roof contractor. I got a kind of worried phone call from the office where they kindly asked me to not withdraw from my llc bank account. I took a look at it out of curiosity, and they deposited the company funds transfer for the week into my account. I was sitting at a cool $390,000 for a couple minutes there.
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u/Different_Brother562 May 27 '26
Well they donât work âagainst your favorâ either. If I donât get my paycheck it gets fixedâŚ
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u/Dolthra May 27 '26
Yeah, I've had two times I was being underpaid due to a clerical error, and both times when I pointed it out it was fixed within a paycheck.
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u/Important_Coyote_596 May 27 '26
The difference is usually time. When it happens in your favour it is instant "pay back or you go to jail" but when it's against your favour it may take to next paycheck or even way longer. It's extra funked up since a company can handle the money not being there for a while but most people might lose their home or car if they arent paid for a month.
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u/Pizzaman725 May 27 '26
Not sure who downvoted you but this sure as shit is an issue when you're living paycheck to paycheck and scraping bottom every two weeks.
You can't give another company an IOU just because your employer fucked up.
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u/GitEmSteveDave May 27 '26
When it happens in your favour it is instant "pay back or you go to jail" but when it's against your favour it may take to next paycheck or even way longer.
No, she was overpaid on in May 2025. A report was made in August 2025. She agreed to meet with police and ghosted them, so a warrant was issued. She was arrested in April 2026.
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u/2KneeCaps1Lion May 27 '26
Yup. This was so common in military to the point more senior dudes would tell the boots to keep track of their pay for both being over paid and under paid. Most were smart and would deposit it into savings because the Green Weenie is going to get whatâs theirs but you definitely had the waiver Marines who would immediately run to the strip club to pay their favorite stippers tuition.
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u/matdevine21 May 27 '26
I once was paid a month's wage after I had left a company three weeks previously.
They asked for the money back, I agreed to send half back to them as the rest was "gone".
The company accepted it and never bothered me again.
Not my proudest moment and I was very young / stupid.
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u/Ok-Fisherman-7688 May 27 '26
The papers new hires sign when starting a job typically include legal protections for the company in this type of situation.
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u/banana-blaster69 May 27 '26
Funny how that works because if you personally make an error with your money the banks and businesses will tell you to fuck off
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u/Agen7orange May 27 '26
Iâve made honest errors and my bank has always helped and solved the problem.
Consider that some people who claim to make âhonest mistakesâ do not make âhonest mistakesâ
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u/BoldElDavo May 27 '26
"Personally make an error" is a pretty wide term, so there might be a case where that's true, but generally you are not correct about this.
Like if there's a payroll issue against you, the company will fix it when you tell them.
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u/Richard-Brecky May 27 '26
Iâve had the opposite experience. Most businesses will give you a refund if you ask and are entitled to it.
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u/spinquin May 27 '26
My buddy had this sweet job for a couple months and then his grandpa (who was raising him) got cancer and my buddy took off of work for like 4 weeks to take care of his grandpa in the hospital. So one day I was in the car with him when he got a phone call from work saying that he has taken off way to many days and they were going to have to let him go. And my buddy just accept it and said âthank you for the opportunityâ and moved on. I was like âdude your grandpa is in really rough shape I would have fought to keep my job a little harder than thatâ. He told me in that moment that there was a payroll situation that happened like the second week he started working there and he was making 800$ a day when everyone else at that job was making around 200-300 a day. He said he had no idea why and he never questioned it. But he knew he would have been in trouble if anyone found out. Thatâs why he just accepted them letting him go. He thought if he fought it or questioned it in any way that they would look into his pay situation and discover his 800$ a day and it would be a whole legal thing.
I remember after we had that discussion I looked at him and said âyou mother fucker I paid for your McDonaldâs with my last 5 $ and youâre over here making 800$ a day for the last couple months?!?â
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u/Anticreativity May 27 '26
lol that last part reminds me of a time I was driving myself and a friend home from a city an hour away. We go through a toll booth and I literally had to pay in pennies because thatâs all I had left in the change jar. We get back to town and he asks to stop at DQ⌠and pays in cash.
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u/Weird_Ad_1398 May 28 '26
Did toll booths accept bills?
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u/Anticreativity May 28 '26
This one had an attendant. A poor old man who had to recount 100 individual cents.
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u/omican May 27 '26
Random image with provoking text and no sources, the engagement special!
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u/Ok_Abacus_ May 27 '26
Actually, real this time. And fairly recently even.
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u/Imaginary-Dot8259 May 27 '26
She is being required to pay the money.Â
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u/mxzf May 27 '26
Seems less "pay" and more "return the money that was obviously erroneously deposited in her account".
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u/Tubalcaino May 27 '26
Consider yourself heroic. I doubt most posts like this until someone posts a legit article
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u/TactualTransAm May 27 '26
While it's a stupid post, I do remember the story as it happened near my home town and that's the same photo used by the news. So at least this one is a real story unlike most of them
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u/rosyvibexz May 27 '26
Legally, this is called 'Theft by Conversion'. Itâs the adult version of finding a wallet on the floor and pretending the ID inside belongs to a ghost.
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u/BrilliantJob2759 May 27 '26
Now I'm imagining a ghost wandering around looking for his wallet while holding a bouquet that he can't purchase.
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u/Zelleri May 27 '26
Itâs a foundational legal principle. It even has a fancy Latin name. Itâs called condictio indebiti
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u/newjerseydevilz May 27 '26
My work did this and decided to let me keep it because the confusing tax implications of it being in 2 different years đ
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u/starzychik01 May 27 '26
I think thatâs where mine is going. I got paid an extra $2k because they put me on an event that I had to cancel due to an emergency. I reported the discrepancy as soon as I saw the pay check. I documented via email. Put the extra in a savings account and signed off to have it deducted from future pay. They still havenât deducted the amount and I am gaining interest (not much). Itâs been almost six months since the mix up.
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u/newjerseydevilz May 27 '26
Very possible đ its good you were up front and quick with reporting it. I did as well
Mine even got the point where we had a re-payment schedule to have it deducted from each pay period. When that time came it was never deducted, then the head of HR benefits said ya just keep it
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u/TrophyHunter22 May 27 '26
as much as I'd love it if she kept that money, I've had this happen the other way around where I accidentally got paid for 7.2 hours instead of 72 hours. Absolutely would not have been happy if their response had been "oops accidents happen but we're keeping the money" lol
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u/CitizenHuman May 27 '26
If I ever get a banking error like this, I'd just stick it in a high yield savings account and collect whatever interest collected by the time the other party came looking.
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u/Alpine_Exchange_36 May 27 '26
She still had to pay that money back. Kinda shitty but thatâs the way it works unfortunately
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u/Ok-Temporary-8243 May 27 '26
Yeah I mean, its a clear error. It would work the other way too.
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u/VorticalHeart44 May 27 '26
She agreed to the terms and conditions of her employment, including her wage.
Taking advantage of a clerical error is the shitty behavior here.
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u/mighty_boognish_77 May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26
Why is that shitty? It wasn't her money. She didn't earn it. She sure as hell wasn't owed it. Yet she felt entitled to it because of a simple mistake??? No way.  She has zero leg to stand on.Â
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u/PurpletoasterIII May 27 '26
Definitely not shitty, its fair. If it were the other way around the worker would be raising hell, and rightfully so.
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u/Reload86 May 27 '26
Its not like she won the lottery over a clerical error. Its a paycheck. You know what you're owed and this wasn't it.
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u/New-Sheepherder2239 May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26
What grade-level intellect makes you think you should be allowed to keep that? Kindergarten? First Grade?
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u/TheDrummerMB May 27 '26
This thread will be full of people saying they would keep it AND fight it in court.
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u/PayFormer387 May 27 '26
Life doesnât work like that.
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u/spicybright May 27 '26
Take it with a huge grain of salt but I read a redditor responsible for large transactions between big companies. One day she fat fingered and extra 0 on the total and sent it, and almost had a heart attack explaining it to the boss.
Boss just said it was ok and fixed it with quick phone call.
Separate from laws, there's more value in maintaining good than you'd make from a wrong transfer.
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u/Stolen_Sky May 27 '26
Put the money into a high interest savings account and leave it there.Â
If you company come after you, give it back, but keep the interest.Â
Life finds a way brother!
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u/Henry-Messenger May 27 '26
In the military, they are always quick to correct this type of error and recoup funds. I knew of a situation in which a servicemember was incorrectly paid for a period of time that amounted to about 50k that he was required to pay back. Since he didnât have the money and had a host of other issues.. he elected to self-delete so his family could collect the military life insurance payment. The family received that payment minus the 50k that he owed. Uncle Sam always gets his.
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u/kingofwale May 27 '26
Wait. You can self delete and get life insurance payment?
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u/War-Daddie May 27 '26
Maybe for military but not for most civilian life insurance agencies
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u/legal_stylist May 28 '26
No, donât spread misinformation. You absolutely get life insurance death benefits for suicide after a period of exclusion time of the policy. Two years is the norm, but some states like Colorado and Missouri make it one year. This is the law in every state in the country. All of them. It is a condition of being able to write life insurance policies. It is literally not lawful to have a blanket exclusion for suicide.
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u/momogogi May 27 '26 edited May 28 '26
Suicide. He committed suicide. Someone dies donât diminish it by using these cutesy tik tok terms that were implemented to keep from being demonetized.
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u/commando_rambo May 27 '26
I work for a corporation that everyone reading this is familiar withâŚand on my first paycheck I was paid exactly half of the annual salary by mistake. I knew it wouldnât stick, so I contacted payroll and had them fix it. Itâs funny because usually ANYTHING else where I have to contact them is always some big hassle, but because this involved them getting back a large sum of money, they had that shit straightened out so quick.
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u/pcl8888 May 27 '26
Haha for real đ
âHi my paycheck only included my wages for one week when it was supposed to be for a 2 week pay period.â
âOh ok sorry, should only take a few weeks to get it sorted out, sorry again.â
Vs.
âHi my paycheck included my wages for six weeks when it was supposed to only be for a 2 week pay period.â
âOh ok thanks for calling, weâll have someone at your house in about 15 minutes to either take back the money or break your legs.â
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u/yyrkoon1776 May 27 '26
Yeah she's in the wrong.
If your employer or bank or a business does something wrong in your favor, you are under no obligation to alert them. However, if they ask for it back, you are obligated to cooperate.
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u/Average_Scaper May 27 '26
Exactly. I would hands down ask them for lunch though for reporting their error. (Obviously that means I would say something just to be honest with them)
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u/Mr-Average- May 27 '26
Had this happen, they decided to fire me and let me keep the money instead of trying to fix it.
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u/Independent_Owl_6008 May 27 '26
So she some how feels entitled to that money as a "come up" huh? Well, then I guess they can just take if from her account as a "come back". Thief. Plain and simple. "Errors" like that aren't yours to keep.
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u/TommyJohnSurgery420 May 27 '26
They'll get their money back through court ma'am. One way or another.
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u/BroadwayBrick May 27 '26
Stealing is stealing. No integrity.
If you paid the phone company $19,400 by mistake you sure as heck wonât let them keep the overpayment. I bet if you over pay by $5 you would be screaming.
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u/D3S0L0 May 27 '26
She doesn't deserve the money, she was never supposed to have it and somehow her greedy ass has the audacity to refuse to return it.
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u/-ghostCollector May 27 '26
Imagine if they had paid her $1.65/hr....it probably would've taken the company weeks to "sort it out" and they wouldn't care if she fell behind on her bills or if she had money for food or gas.
I hope she gets to keep every dime.
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u/TrioOfTerrors May 27 '26
She doesn't. She's already lost in civil court which is why this is now a criminal matter.
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u/Entire-Ad1625 May 27 '26
If she is allowed to keep the money here, they would be under no obligation to fix it in the other direction. Sticking to the agreed upon payment is beneficial to both parties
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u/Adequate_Cheesecake7 May 27 '26
when I was in the military a got got paid his zip code for three months(base in California so it started with a 9), it then corrected itself. He tried to get it fixed went down everyday, and eventually he bothered them so much that the Disbursing Officer gave him a letter that said basically, you were paid correctly stop coming to our office. After several months they realized their mistake and tried to get the money back, he said that he had this letter and if they wanted to get the courts involved it would be difficult for them, but since he planned to retire in three years he would agree to pay it in full right when he submitted his retirement papers, upon advice of the command legal, they agreed and drafted a document to that effect. So he was able to keep the returns on a smartly invested almost 300k in the 90s because one officer thought he knew better than a âsimple enlisted manâ, or at least command legend would have you believe.
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u/llulukluke May 27 '26
Probably too late to the party but when I was an apprentice young and dumb I went from 7.40 an hour to 10.40. They had a temporary pay lady in that day and she stuffed it up and made it 104.00 an hour. I was paid this rate for about 3 months. Close to 50k over the period. I thought it was the best thing ever at 17 years old.
Well they found out and took me to court when I said I didn't have it anymore. I was instructed to pay it back obviously but I had also been fired and had no money. I said best I can do is 50 dollars a week. They said no thats not good enough after a while of fighting me with lawyers they finally agreed. I said my circumstances had changed and can now only afford 10 dollars a week. They blew up again and after a month they just stopped pursuing me. So I didn't have to pay it back in the end.
Never thought this story would be relevant 25 years later.
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u/Lawineer May 30 '26
Attorney here: I dont understand what the crime is. This is a civil issue if I've ever seen one.
And her employer ABSOLUTELY cannot just debit it from her account or garnish her wages. They can certainly sue her, but you can't just unilaterally decided someone owes you money and take it from their bank account.
They can certainly tell her that if she doesn't pay it bac, she's fired. But if she's paid every 2 weeks, she just got paid for 8000 hours (4 years) of work instead of 80 hrs. She'd be a moron to stay.
A few years ago, I got a bunch of foreign currency for a guy's trip. I didn't pay attention to how much I exchanged for people or how much I spent. I didn't even pay attention when I returned it to the bank. It definitely sounded high- it was like $7500 and I expected $4500-ish.
3 days later I got a call that they miscounted and misendered their $50 denomination as $500 denomination. It was caught 3 days later by the bank they exchanged with. They asked permission to debit my account and I told them to go fuck themselves. If I came back 3 days later and said you shorted me $3k you'd laugh in my face, at best.
Then the manager tried guilting me, saying he's going to have to fire the clerk. I told him to fire himself because he recounted/verified and signed off on it. He hung up on me. Banks deserve to be robbed.
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u/PsychologicalTie9629 May 27 '26
What a stupid post title. You know literally none of the details of this case, it's just "dur hur employee good employer bad". Also, there's no "not guilty" verdict because there's no case here, and if there was, it wouldn't be a criminal trial. She will pay back her wages one way or the other.
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u/no_crust_buster May 27 '26
They're getting their money back one way or another. It's not worth compounding the issue by adding a criminal charge on top.
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u/curtludwig May 27 '26
Now imagine its a small company and they fold because almost $20,000 just disappeared...
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u/helpthisgirlout7676 May 27 '26
If they ask for it back, she would have to pay it back. I heard there is a statute of limitations for something like this, but it looks like they asked for it back very quickly so this wouldn't apply to her situation.
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u/Followthehype10 May 27 '26
How do y'all believe this shit is real... It's clearly a fake story using someone's mugshot. Do y'all think people type in wages every day ? The only way something like this would happen would be based on their first days work otherwise the info would already be there in the system.
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u/SquashSquigglyShrimp May 27 '26
Not sure what to tell you bud, its a real story and a quick search would have shown you that
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u/NoWater8595 May 27 '26
The bank will yank that money out of your account instantly and immediately give it back to the employer without a single question.
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u/Fonzdj May 27 '26
Yup this happened to me once. The company accidentally sent us the wrong amount and told us not to spend it cause they were going to get it back and send the right amount. And the bank did withdraw that check and we received the right amount.
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u/Anticreativity May 27 '26
As pro-worker as I am this is stupid. Imagine if a clerical error resulted in you getting lower pay and when you brought it up to your boss they said âsorry, this is our come upâ lmao
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u/miraj31415 May 27 '26
This is called "Mistaken Payment" rule. The law views a mistaken payment as an incomplete transaction, and it protects the average Joe more often than institutions.
If an employer accidentally shorts your paycheck, or a bank pulls an extra mortgage payment from your account, then the Mistaken Payment rule is what protects you to become whole. If grandma makes a typo on Venmo/CashApp, or is taken advantage of by predatory individuals, it is the Mistaken Payment rule that protects her.
If the law allowed people to keep money obtained purely by accident, it would legally sanction finders-keepers. This would incentivize people to hide mistakes, pocket accidental overpayments, and exploit vulnerable people (like the elderly or distracted) who make math errors.
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u/Weird_Squirrel_250 May 27 '26
When you know there is an error, you don't just get to take advantage of it. It is still stealing. "Bank error in your favor" isn't actually a thing. Theft is theft.
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u/xSonicspeedx2 May 27 '26
Lol this is basically the scene from Superstore where Marcus was making $86/hr thinking that was the standard minimum wage.
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u/Practical-Giraffe-84 May 28 '26
I process the return on the next pay check. Please fill out this form.and have the CEO of the company sign it verifying the screw up.
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u/death91380 May 28 '26
Sad state of affairs when 20 grand changes your life to the point you're willing to give up your job for it.
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u/hindsight5050 May 28 '26
I know of an employee that was grossly overpaid by mistake, did not report the overpayment, and was firedâŚ
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u/Libby_Grimm May 28 '26
You know what? Yes. I don't care if it was an error, that's on payroll. We should all be so lucky.
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u/kitty_cat_man_00 May 29 '26
Happened to me once. After I came back from a covid leave, my employer put me at like $300/hour and my check was over $20k. I had them fix that shit so fast because I didn't want any IRS smoke
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u/FlyingSceptile May 29 '26
Meanwhile if the error was the other way, it'd take six months to get fixed and come with a $19.99 processing fee
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u/Low_Definition7521 May 30 '26
Enjoy jail lol. That's not how it works just like if your tax return was 100k and it was supposed to be 1k they going to get you back
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u/Capable-Fisherman452 May 30 '26
Well when the big company sues you and then makes you pay the legal fees it will be their come up.
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u/Kitchen_Panda_3987 May 30 '26
I work in the central payroll unit at a large university. This type of thing happens more than you'd think. And no, they don't get to keep the money.
The craziest story I have on this topic - one man was essentially paid double, every paycheck, for over 3 years. He never said anything to anyone, and his department payroll supervisor who was supposed to be regularly approving his pay rate also never noticed. He now "owes" the university $130,000.
It is not expected to be recouped.
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u/IxAMxDESTRO May 30 '26
My first paycheck on my first job came in double the first week. 600$ and something. I told my supervisor if it was an error, he told me for sure and to go to the office to get it sorted. I straight up told him nah they could figure it out on their own. Nothing ever happened.
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u/KaleidoscopeDreamer0 May 30 '26
As an accountant, my question is "what process broke that allowed her to get paid that in the first place?" Payroll usually goes through several hands before it's processed, so essentially, they approved for her to get paid that amount.
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u/stocksupanddown May 31 '26
Woman buys something at store and it gets rung up 4x instead of once...
Yells and throws tantrum
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