Business etiquette and integrity Part II

fendergirl
Wed, 20 Apr 2011 08:39:23 +0000

Definitely check your pay stub every pay period.

We wouldn’t officially know if we were shorted or overpaid because of the fact that our paychecks vary so much… but those of us who have worked there awhile kind of know about what to expect. Getting a large incentive out of nowhere might not mean over payment, that just might mean you had a really great month. But if your incentives go up ridiculously a bunch of months in a row… you either got really good or something is wrong. Same thing if it’s vice versa… if your payments go down consecutively month after month, you either got really bad or something is wrong. also, if your paycheck massively shrinks all at once, that might be an error too. We get our incentive part in our 2nd payperiod of the month, so basically you have one paycheck of your salary, and then you have one paycheck of your salary plus extras. (i call them my little paycheck and my big paycheck. Little paycheck pays the mortgage, big paycheck is for everything else).

Another example being, my boyfriend always has a very very large incentive in Feburary… this year, for example, it was like 2400$… two years ago in feburary he got $600. He told them his feb paycheck was unusually small… they caught the error and it turned out he was shorted like 1300 dollars due to a computer glitch that effected him and some other people. They put it in their next paychecks. That was a 1300 error in one month. a 1300 error spread out over 10 months when you usually get between say about 800 a month is much less noticible… but if you have been there awhile you might notice your average incentive going from say 800 a month to 650 a month… but at the same time, if it was 700 a month… it still looks funny to you because it’s 100 less then normal… you’ve got no way to realize they have an extra 600 of overpayment in there over the course of 10 months!