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.
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.