Blimmin payroll dept messing up..grrrr

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know that I'm being unreasonable but that doesn't make me any less cross.

i returned to work in October on part time hours (30 per week). when i spoke to my director he said that there was no problem and that we'd review it after three months just to check everything was ok.

I changed managers a month later and the review meeting got cancelled, my new manager was happy with my hours and I was coping well so no problem.

I opted for childcare vouchers starting on 1 January and expected my salary toc hange, which it did although it didn't go down as much as I thought. I assumed it was because they are tax and NI free so didn't give it another thought.

Now HR have just called my manager to sya they've been paying me as a full timer (35 hrs per week) since 1 January and that I've got to pay it back (21 weeks x extra 5 hours makes around £1500). It seems my original director's secretary filled in my 'return to work' form saying I was only part time until 1 January. We were reviewing it then, informally but they had agreed I was going part time permanently.

I know I've been paid the money I shouldn't have and maybe I should have noticed it but i can't pay back £1500 in one hit - I don't even earn that much in a month. My manager has said that 'it happens' and that I can 'probably pay it back over a number of months'.

I'm so feckin cross I could up sticks and walk out right now. Tossers.

As i said, I know I owe the money but surely payroll and HR have a duty to make sure their records are right.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Rant over. I know i'm being unreasonable but can one of you lovely, beautiful ladies just agree with me to make me feel a bit better?

YANBU. Well, a little bit. But they made the error, you just didn't pick up on it. make sure you pay back at a rate to suit you, not them.

A general rule with these things (if you are not at fault, which looks the case here) is that you pay it back at least as slowly as they overpaid you, so if its been 5 months you've been overpaid, you have at least 5 months in which to pay it back.

It happened to me once, its a bitch isn't it? So YANBU.

YABU. Payroll did not mess up. HR messed up. Payroll will pay you for the hours HR have told them to pay you.

Please do not vent at payroll. They work hard and are unappreciated. Rant at HR. We call them human remains where I work.

There is no probably about paying them back over a few months. It is HR or your managers fault, so they will have to sort out a payment plan to suit you.

Sorry - I stand corrected. Blimmin HR!

They've said that I can pay back over 18 months so that's not so bad.

Sorry - I stand corrected. Blimmin HR!

They've said that I can pay back over 18 months so that's not so bad.

I stand corrected twice..

cheshire kitty. Why do you assume HR messed up? HR get the information from line managers, and the OP made it clear the incorrect information was given by her director's secretary.

Lovely to hear you automatically blame HR and rant at them for any payment error.

flowery, I said it was HR or her managers fault. The op automatically said it was payroll in her leading sentence. Payroll can only act on information given by outside agencies ie HR or managers.