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Original poster

I just got overpaid...

62 replies

SugarnetMum · 09/05/2017 16:50

So I was due 240 euros for 26 hours but got paid 305 euros... Its cash.

I was racking my brain trying to think whether it was money for hours I hadn't been paid for, but nope I'm up to scratch.

A few weeks ago my boss pretended he couldn't find my wages, I thought he might have took them back to pay for something else, thinking id forgotten... Aibu to keep the money? Or is it his mistake , he should keep a closer eye...?

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SugarnetMum · 09/05/2017 17:42

He was always paying less than minimum wage so that's OK. When I started I was on eight euro an hour....only last year. Minimum wage is 9.15 as of now and he upped my wages to 9 recently..

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SugarnetMum · 09/05/2017 17:43

Increasingly middle aged I agree, everyone would like to think they'd give it straight back on here but a lot wouldn't in rl

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GwenStaceyRocks · 09/05/2017 17:43

In RL, there are some honest people but we tend to socialise with other honest people so you may not have met many Increasingly Hmm

Increasinglymiddleaged · 09/05/2017 17:46

Whatever you say Gwen Smile

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SugarnetMum · 09/05/2017 17:48

I'll just think of it as all those tips I never got over the last year Grin

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SugarnetMum · 09/05/2017 17:48

I'll just think of it as all those tips I never got over the last year Grin

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fruitbats · 09/05/2017 17:48

I would def give it back. In real life!
I think if you are working cash in hand, it's to be expected that you don't get the protection of staff who are on the books- such as min wage.
I think it is shit that they keep your tips though.

SusieOwl4 · 09/05/2017 17:55

Personally I would ask if it is wrong . Two wrongs don't make a right.

shyturnip · 09/05/2017 18:02

Another one here who suspects it's possibly a trap

Urglewurgle · 09/05/2017 19:00

Tell him, I got overpaid and genuinely didn't know, they just took it out of my wages one month without telling me. I was buggered.

NotAPuffin · 09/05/2017 19:32

You won't have any PRSI contributions?

SomethingBorrowed · 09/05/2017 19:49

Keep the money but don't spend it for a while. Put it in savings for ex.

Beelzebop · 09/05/2017 19:52

Keep it

Judashascomeintosomemoney · 09/05/2017 20:09

Well I would flag it up to him precisely because he's dodgy and he might be doing it to see how honest you are. However, that might not translate in to him treating you better in future of course but you'll have the moral high ground. The moral high doesn't pay well but, ya know.....

turnaroundbrighteyes · 09/05/2017 21:10

Got to be your tips if he said end of year as financial year just finished

JacquesHammer · 09/05/2017 21:23

Increasingly middle aged I agree, everyone would like to think they'd give it straight back on here but a lot wouldn't in rl

Except I did just that. Showed work there'd been an error. Paid it straight back. Received an extra Christmas bonus as thank you.

Cannot bear dishonesty

HildaOg · 09/05/2017 23:50

I'd keep it. It's not like he's going to notice and in the very unlikely event he did, you never noticed any extra.

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SugarnetMum · 10/05/2017 01:36

I sent him a fb message and wish I didn't now...all he said was thanks very much for letting me know I must have mixed you up with other employee ....

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HildaOg · 10/05/2017 02:28

Honesty gets you nowhere. For future reference, take everything you can get. You could have enjoyed the few extra euros.

ShiningArmour · 10/05/2017 02:32

"That money was only resting in my account"

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SugarnetMum · 10/05/2017 10:43

Hilda you're right! I should of done what I originally thought! And had a few extra Bob for my holidays in two weeks..... All he said was thanks..

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GahBuggerit · 10/05/2017 11:12

You did the right thing. Not worth losing your job over a few Euros.

He said thanks, what were you expecting?

MyheartbelongstoG · 10/05/2017 11:43

All he said was thanks but you have your integrity. Priceless.

Now he knows your any honest person and it would have been picked up eventually.

If your being paid cash then your not paying tax or USC so nett pay is probably more.

I'm also in Ireland where a large number of cash workers claim Social Welfare.

19lottie82 · 10/05/2017 11:58

Meh I'd have kept it. If the OP was paid under min wage previously then she was under paid and she his over payment would have just gone towards making up the difference, no?

MyheartbelongstoG · 10/05/2017 12:00

No Lottie.

She was underpaying the government re taxes as she was getting cash.

What's good for the goose.....

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