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 $300 last month because he didn’t clock out. It would have doubled his pay so there’s no way he didn’t notice. Asked him and he said “honestly can’t remember when that was,” meaning he was aware of it but chose not to tell us. Would you fire him? We like him but it feels like stealing.
You are at fault and he doesn’t owe you anything. In a perfect world they would hand you the 300$ 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.