Business etiquette and integrity Part II

fendergirl
Wed, 20 Apr 2011 00:18:06 +0000

I know you don’t want to hear this but I think you’ll have to give her something extra - maybe just like a one time thing - but then moving forward she has to play by the same rules as everyone else or find a new job.

We had a situation at work about a year and a half ago where we kept reporting that we didn’t think our paychecks looked right (about 1/4th of our paycheck is made up of incentive payments which are calculated on a monthly basis)… month after month we kept saying that they seemed low… they kept telling us they were fine… after about 10 months of this going on accounting realized they had an error in their system and that it wasn’t reporting right… so yes, they were paying us right for what their computer told them to pay us… but that wasn’t the right figure… they went through everything manually and sent everyone a letter… mine said something along the lines of “during our audit we realized we underpaid you 630.00. We will add this into your next check along with interest. we also realized that we have overpaid you by 320 dollars. due to the fact that you had no clue this was happening, you can keep that figure and we won’t be deducting it from your 630. sorry about any inconvenience.”

I remember thinking, gee thanks. I get to keep my 320 that you paid me by accident, which didn’t even remotely look funny to me since at the same time you under paid me by 630 dollars! My one coworkers letter said something along the lines of, we underpaid you by 3100, but we overpaid you by 800.

They paid us our missing money, plus interest for each month that it was late… and now it’s been put behind us… but you can bet on the fact that the next time someone says something looks wrong with their paycheck it will be looked into very quickly!