Ex-employer paid me ths month

[Freamon]

I left permiedom with mutual agreement from the company.

Of course.

[DodgyAgent]

Keep it and keep your head down for 6 years. After that it is yours.

[v8gaz]

Not unusual. I'm involved in some 'downsizing' at current client. One of the issues raised from previous downsizing excercises was the tale of some lass that was made redundant, and was then paid for the next 4 years.

HR are not the brightest team in any business.

[TraceRacing]

I did the right thing and called them this morning... it's getting sorted

[KentPhilip]

I did the right thing and called them this morning... it's getting sorted

Coward

[psychocandy]

I had similar in a permie job a while ago. £1000 extra in my pay one month for some sort of comission.

I worked out what it was, there was a guy with the same name as me and he was due a finders fee (so he told me) for recommending someone to the company. Anyway, told payroll about three times, this guy got his £1000 but they never took mine back. In the end I got pissed off with phoning them and they never chased me.

Same with current agency. Overpaid me by a day months ago. I told them straight away so they said they'd pay me less one day next month. They forgot so I reminded them, which has happened last 3 months now. Not wasting my time anymore if they dont want it back.

[Mich the Tester]

This happened to me once, about a year after I'd left permiedom. I called them and let them know; it turned out they'd used an old back up tape of the HR records when paying out salaries (or something like that). They were very grateful, offered me a free couple of days training on one of their courses and contacted me a few months later asking if I was available to do some work; I've done a couple of contracts for them since. Apparently a few other people were mistakenly paid too and they first recieved a nice letter asking for the money to be returned, then got progressively nastier letters from lawyers until one of them ended up in court having to pay back with interest plus rather hefty legal costs. Glad I was honest.