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That makes it easier, you can’t control the direct deposit. By the time it’s sorted out, the paycheck will be in your bank. You might not get pay going forward for several paychecks.</p>
<p>Get paid first since you need the money. Once it is deposited then it is perfectly reasonable to report it to HR as to why you were paid so much money. I am sure at that point they will look into it and get it corrected. It really isn’t that big of a deal whether you report it Mon or when you actually get the money. There is no issue of honesty or honor involved here.</p>
<p>Once you confirm an error, I would also say to call payroll first – I can’t see any reason to involve your boss unless told to do so.</p>
<p>Sweetie,
Imagine, if you will, that you never looked at your online HR account.</p>
<p>Imagine your surprise when you bank account has a large deposit!
At that moment, you should call HR. </p>
<p>They will tell you their policy for these types of errors, i.e., whether they will extract the excess deposit or withhold future deposits.</p>
<p>There is no need to risk not getting paid at all.</p>
<p>The other alternative is to start working 40 hour weeks. Congrats on landing a full-time job. </p>
<p>Just kidding. :-)</p>
<p>^ Haha. I already work 8 AM - 5 PM 6 days a week (internship/job 1/job 2/classes). If only I ACTUALLY got paid for all that :p.</p>
<p>You may get stuck with the retirement payment, even though you are not full time. Even when I worked an hour & a half, 3 times a week during the school year as a noon attendant, I had money taken from my check and put into the state retirement system. Same when I worked as a sub teacher. I think you’ll have a %'age taken out as long as you are employed in a position that has to pay into the state retirement system. Which reminds me that I need to look into rolling account into my 403b or 401k … before our state goes bankrupt. ;)</p>
<p>Hmmm… Interesting kels. It’s currently matched by the state. No wonder we’re broke!</p>
<p>Part of why I recommended that she not try to interrupt the cycle (but rather go ahead and have the check get deposited and THEN deal with it) is I believe romani said she works for the state of Michigan. That means she is a dust-speck in a huge payroll machine. It’s not like going into the back office of Jack’s Auto Parts and asking Bertha to cut her a new check please. The state doesn’t issue payroll checks every day, they issue checks when they issue checks. And I think if she gets off-cycle, she’ll wait a minimum of two weeks for a reissue.</p>
<p>I could be wrong. But why take a chance.</p>
<p>Yes, state of Michigan. One of the largest departments in there IIRC. That’s why I was so confused because I’ve never worked at a place where I didn’t have the cell phone number of the person who signs my checks haha (like I said, I’ve only worked at small places before). If this happened at any of the other places, I could get a new check with one text but here I’m afraid I won’t get it until next pay cycle.</p>
<p>^^^This is exactly why I suggested she deal with BEFORE her check is cut. Once the check is cut it is much harder for a large organization like the state to back it out of the payroll system. In addition to backing out her pay they will have to back out the pension contribution, the FICA contribution (you can bet that the State of Michigan is a monthly if not a semi-monthly depositer), as well as state taxes. Because this may very well be the last pay period of the year that just adds to the mess. However, if she can alert them of a mistake before the check is cut, they most likely can verify her information and correct the mistake with a few key strokes. Once the check is cut it is MUCH harder to correct the problem.</p>
<p>There are no checks being cut; once she sees it on her HR page, her data is inputted, done. </p>
<p>If she lets them know before it hits her bank, they might put a stop on what is in the system, but they probably don’t have time to get the corrected info in for this cycle of deposits. </p>
<p>From the OP’s perspective, I’d bet, getting no money is a worse prospect than dealing with fixing this later.</p>
<p>mominva is right. As I said before, I am not getting a check- it’s all automatic. </p>
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<p>Absolutely right since the next pay day is either the 22nd of December or the 26th- both of which I simply cannot afford. I can afford my next two paychecks being slashed or removed to make up for this mistake, but I can’t afford getting NO money this Friday.</p>
<p>If your payroll department is big enough to have a web page set up, believe me, they know how to deal with getting you paid properly quickly. Most states have laws about how fast they have to pay you. Call payroll (skipping your boss) Monday.</p>
<p>call on monday. Many years ago I was overpaid and I ended owing them money as, at the time, they could not reverse the withholding. </p>
<p>Although payroll is processed only at certain times they usually have ways to cut emergency “checks” and you may not need to wait until the next payroll cycle (I am a state employee in a different state than the OP)</p>
<p>As far as the retirement plan deposit, that will have to be undone too. There are procedures. The OP shouldn’t be concerend about all this; it’s for the worker bees in Payroll and Benefits to handle.</p>
<p>Sorry, when I say cutting the check, it does not necessarily mean a physical check. It means authorizing the payment. It is much, much easier to correct it before the payment is authorized then after. Correcting this is a matter of keystrokes before the authorizaion goes through, but is a hours of work for a couple different workers after you are paid. And in a very large system, it may not be just a pay period or two. Some times these large systems hold all the mistakes and do them in batch because of the work involved in pulling back pension and withholding payments.</p>
<p>Update: I went to work today and was going to talk to my boss. She wasn’t there. I only work today from 3-5, but I go from my internship to class to work with no time in between to call HR. When I finally got home, I looked up HR’s number and apparently it’s only accessible from the intranet at work (what???). </p>
<p>I also talked to my supervisor at my internship (who works for the State as well, but a different branch) and he suggested waiting until I actually have the check Friday. He said that the HR office doesn’t tend to get things done quickly and I would most likely have a delay.</p>
<p>I’m glad you’re waiting until the money is in the bank. A key reality you will learn (if you haven’t already) is that once there is a problem, the chances that a fix creates a different/worse problem is ridiculously high. And, many times the person who attempts to fix the problem either doesn’t know how to do it in a way that doesn’t leave you in the lurch, or requires the approval of someone who is either out sick or on vacation, leaving you in the lurch anyway.</p>