Reply to: Anyone ever been paid twice by error by agency

[AlfredJPruffock]

Once I had a temporary contract in Italy where on the phone we agreed at amount X - 20% preliminary taxes (that's when you don't have the equivalent of ltd and it's an occasional job). It turned out they paid me the full amount (plus an extra 20% for taxes). I told the agency that they made a mistake and they said they didn't. I went to check the contract and they made the same mistake on the contract so I was legally allowed to keep that 20%. But then the agency manager realised the mistake and asked for the money back. Honesty is a bad habbit those days as I felt like I had to return the money. I did that, and the bank teller made a mistake as I made other two transfers on the same day and he got confused with the amounts so I gave them twice the amount I should have given.
It would have been ironical if they now kept the difference but instead they didn't. So tell me again, how much honesty does pay those days?

Honesty is the best policy

LIke the time I was working in Rome,managed to lose my wallet containing my passport, credit cards 300 Euros and 200 puonds in sterling in cash, Building Pass, the works.

That night I had a cold sweat, no money , no Id, zilch and the first rent was due the next day.

Next day I got a call, somebody had found my wallet and handed it to the Termini railway station, went to collect it , everything was there,and wanted to leave a reward for the honest person who saved me from despair.

The lost property lady told me it was a young girl who handed it in but she did not want to leave her name.

It must have been Angel, the lost property lady said.

I didnt argue with that.

[benn0]

You think I'm going to bother with someone who has problems with basic verbal reasoning who has spent most of the time on this board getting his anti-tory one liners wherever he can?


The sheer arrogance of this statement is astounding - most reasonable people would say they were wrong. You, on the other hand, give "benefit of the doubt".

You and Chico - you weren't separated at birth were you?


As you started the insults, about the only statement so far I agree with.

End of.

Re-read this thread. Then tell me who replied to a simple question with not one, but two snide digs. I've had political diagreements with plenty of other people on this board and they were able to give straightfoward answers to the question. You on the other hand.....

Every time you reply you dig a little deeper.

[hyperD]

You still haven't told me where the contradiction and hypocricy is in my free lunch comment

You think I'm going to bother with someone who has problems with basic verbal reasoning who has spent most of the time on this board getting his anti-tory one liners wherever he can?

Giving someone the benefit of the doubt is not a sign of weakness, although I now know it was probably a mistake in this case.

The sheer arrogance of this statement is astounding - most reasonable people would say they were wrong. You, on the other hand, give "benefit of the doubt".

You and Chico - you weren't separated at birth were you?

I could continue to argue with you, but can't really see the point. Arguing with an idiot can only bring you down to their level.

As you started the insults, about the only statement so far I agree with.

End of.

[benn0]

Which are simply weasel words for basically saying I was wrong, but you just can't bring yourself to say it.

I look forward to more of your lefty, one liner snipes and contradictions. Perhaps even a few more "tough" guy lines - should be quite entertaining.

You're beginning to sound more and more like the spotty playground wimp you undoubtedly are. You still haven't told me where the contradiction and hypocricy is in my free lunch comment, most probably because there isn't one. You brought politics into this totally non political question to try to gain some higher moral ground. Unfortunately for you it failed miserably. Giving someone the benefit of the doubt is not a sign of weakness, although I now know it was probably a mistake in this case.

I could continue to argue with you, but can't really see the point. Arguing with an idiot can only bring you down to their level.

fool.

[hyperD]

I gave you the benefit of the doubt over the Murdoch comment although I'm not so sure now.

Which are simply weasel words for basically saying I was wrong, but you just can't bring yourself to say it.

I look forward to more of your lefty, one liner snipes and contradictions. Perhaps even a few more "tough" guy lines - should be quite entertaining.

[Lucifer Box]

There was a dickhead socialist contractor at a mobile telco I had a gig at back in the early days of IR35. He was always going on about the international workers' movement, social justice, high earners should pay more taxes, etc. The fcuker got hit with a PAYE review (and ultimately got stung for IR35) and it turned out he was paying himself minimum wage, dividends to his missus, had an off-shore account, the works. So much for his social conscience.

[benn0]

You're a fucking hypocrite and you know it. You're just smarting cos I caught you out before.

Smarting over what exactly? - I gave you the benefit of the doubt over the Murdoch comment although I'm not so sure now. What is hypocritical about losing my rag with an agency that has constantly paid incorrectly and now has paid the same invoice twice? As I stated in the original post, this has nothing to do with politics but you tried to bring politics into it. Can you point out where in my free lunch comment I mentioned being the beneficiary of cockups by incompenetent agencies? No I thought not.

Telling me I am still smarting because 'I caught you out' tells me a lot about the type of person you abviously are. Trust me, I didn't lose any sleep over you last night, nor will I ever. I'd still rip your geeky ears off if I ever met you though.

The money will sit in my account until I hear from them and I was sounding out the likelihood of them coming asking for it back. If they don't they can swivel. And so can idiots like you. You really ought to get a life.[/

[hyperD]

You're a fucking hypocrite and you know it. You're just smarting cos I caught you out before.

[benn0]

Hmmm, let me check...

Hmmm, let me check...


Quote:
Originally Posted by Paul Bennett
I pay my dues. Without moaning. I work hard and have no problem with paying the correct amount of tax. Like anyone else I have issues with scroungers, but I also do not expect a free lunch with regards to education, defence, transport, health etc.

Hyperdickehead - keep out of it. What has that comment got to do with the my original question you piece of knob smegma.- Tax will be paid on the amount overpaid and as far as I'm concerned if they don't come asking for it back they won't get it back and it will be adequate compo for the number of hours I have spent chasing incorrectly paid invoices.

And my name is neither Paul or Bennett

[Fungus]

I once had a phone on a Vodaphone contract. £200 down, 1 year no rental, then a monthly rental. Except the zero-rental period never started. I upgraded the phone at the end of the year, and I think that upset their computer system. After 3 years of free rental, I cancelled the contract and went to a new provider. I reckoned they would have caught up with me had I carried on, so cancelling was the best move. That was years back, and I've had no request for payment,

I also once ordered 10 slide films from a company paying by cheque. A few days later they arrived. Then 2 weeks later another 10 arrived. So I ordered again, and the same thing happened. Not long after the shop went out of business. I never could work out why as they gave such good value for money.

I think the moral of the above is that it pays to engage software experts who know what they are doing, unlike the EDS type tulipe ...

However, if it is a small shop that undercharges me, then I own up.

Fungus

[mcquiggd]

Once worked for Motrola and had a company phone - hardly ever used it. After a few months I received a letter saying I owed £300+. I rang them up and they said they would pass it back to their accounts team. Then I got a new bill, saying I owed about £140. I queried that, and then they said 'actually we owe you a refund of £160'.

I was honest and rang them again, saying I had only had the phone 4 months, and they must have made a mistake. My boss rang them up and they said they would look at it again...

And then, a cheque arrived made out to 'Motorola UK Ltd' - for just shy of £900!! They had everything so fecked up they thought they owed me money even though id never paid a penny, as it was paid for by Motorola's European Cellular Infrastruture Division - how ironic

My boss, bless him, walked through to HR, got the cheque cashed for me, and told me to keep the money... back in those days it was more than a months take home...

[Lucifer Box]

Blame what you have been smoking.

It must be the cinnammon jos stick I have burning away on the desk.

[Francko]

Blimey, Franco, I came over all dizzy after reading that.

Blame what you have been smoking.

[Lucifer Box]

Once I had a temporary contract in Italy where on the phone we agreed at amount X - 20% preliminary taxes (that's when you don't have the equivalent of ltd and it's an occasional job). It turned out they paid me the full amount (plus an extra 20% for taxes). I told the agency them they made a mistake and they said they didn't. I went to check the contract and they made the same mistake on the contract so I was legally allowed to keep that 20%. But then the agency manager realised the mistake and asked for the money back. Honesty is a bad habbit those days as I felt like I had to return the money. I did that, and the bank teller made a mistake as I made other two transfers on the same day and he got confused with the amounts so I gave them twice the amount I should have given.
It would have been ironical if they now kept the difference but instead they didn't. So tell me again, how much honesty does pay those days?

Blimey, Franco, I came over all dizzy after reading that.

[Francko]

Once I had a temporary contract in Italy where on the phone we agreed at amount X - 20% preliminary taxes (that's when you don't have the equivalent of ltd and it's an occasional job). It turned out they paid me the full amount (plus an extra 20% for taxes). I told the agency that they made a mistake and they said they didn't. I went to check the contract and they made the same mistake on the contract so I was legally allowed to keep that 20%. But then the agency manager realised the mistake and asked for the money back. Honesty is a bad habbit those days as I felt like I had to return the money. I did that, and the bank teller made a mistake as I made other two transfers on the same day and he got confused with the amounts so I gave them twice the amount I should have given.
It would have been ironical if they now kept the difference but instead they didn't. So tell me again, how much honesty does pay those days?