I’ve been super busy opening another location and haven’t been checking our payroll every week like I normally do. Did a review today and saw we overpaid an employee by $300 last month because he didn’t clock out. It would have doubled his pay so there’s no way he didn’t notice. Asked him and he said “honestly can’t remember when that was,” meaning he was aware of it but chose not to tell us. Would you fire him? We like him but it feels like stealing.
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The Employee should fire you
We’re all dying for some good help and you’re sweating this kid over $300?!
You are at fault and he doesn’t owe you anything. In a perfect world they would hand you the 300$ and then what ?
Did you try apologizing and being human ? Especially for putting your own employee in a moral situation that could cost them their job and reputation because you’re a little frazzled from opening ANOTHER location to make exceedingly more money than them.
This is dumb and sounds like a typical repayment scam.
“Oh no, I’ve overpaid you, please send me a money order for the balance.”
If this can’t be handled properly through the banks, it probably is a scam.
In a past life I was over paid 12k over the course of a months. I made pretty great money and just had a promotion so I had no idea and I’m fiscally irresponsible so I never checked my stubs. Bummer news to get though. I paid it all back. VP called and was super apologetic. HR manager was later fired for this (and other negligent actions). The point is, it’s not the employee’s fault. They’re worried about putting food on the table and shit. But you can admit your mistake and ask for it back over a period of time. Or admit your mistake, say don’t worry about it because it’s only 300 bucks, and you’ll likely have a loyal employee. Or a super disloyal one. I don’t know this person.
This happened to me years ago i got extra 500 bux on my paycheck. I didnt report it, but eventually i was notified they were going to tak back payment. Not sure what the term is but it was like a chargeback on my account. Why was this discrepancy not caught by sup/manager/payroll? Maybe fire them instead
You made the mistake dude- by your logic, maybe YOU should be fired.
I’ve been an employee and employer. As an employee of a big organization I wouldn’t tell them if I was overpaid and would not care one bit how they felt when they found out about THEIR error.
As an employer of a small company, yea I wouldn’t fire because good labor is hard to come by but would definitely look at them differently and be more csteful/less trusting of them lol
You’re gonna fire a good employee because of your mistake, lol.
My husband never checks his paycheck. It comes direct deposit. When i was doing our checking found out he was missing one paycheck and was not paid. This was months after. It is your fault not on employee, you can demand to pay it back, if he refuse that is something else. Give him the benefit of the doubt.
If you fire someone over your mistake like this, then you better never take advantage of the server forgetting to charge you for dessert or the cashier that miskeyed a discount on your purchase or someone who gave you extra change or whatever.
Human error happens. Unfortunately this time it was yours.
We’ve probably all had a weird paycheck at some point and thought “huh…oh well” and moved on with our lives. It’s not like your employee intentionally took money out of the register—you handed it to him.
Suck it up as the cost of doing business and be more diligent moving forward.
Your mistake your loss. If he’s a good employee move on. If not and you wanted a reason you have one so he moves on.
Honestly though it’s 300$. 🤷🏻♀️. What’s your time worth.