Surprised that over time wasn't caught by the manager who approved your time sheet. Every place I worked, if they didn't have prior authorization for overtime, it was caught before payroll went in.My first paycheck with my current company, it was the first time I had to fill out a time sheet electronically. I accidentally entered an extra 8 hours on my time sheet and got paid for 8 hours of overtime. Brought it to the attention of my manager and HR the next day and they reduced my next check by that amount. Thought it may have been a test until I realized what I had done.
I worked at a place where the payroll clerk was escorted out of the building in handcuffs. Overtime from working double shifts were not uncommon, and she would divert a quarter hour from people with 8 hours overtime and they would never notice. Not sure how they caught her, but I guess it added up to about $2,000 a pay period she diverted.Once I noticed what I thought was a supplementary bonus payment via direct deposit. I thought that it was a correction because my original bonus seemed rather low. Then I got a message that an error was made by payroll and it would be clawed back, which it was within a day. Within a week that payroll employee was gone.
The useless middle manager that I worked for when I started here approved the time sheet, apparently not noticing that mine was different from everyone else's for the week. Really showed me how inept he was at his job, but also how little attention was paid.Surprised that over time wasn't caught by the manager who approved your time sheet. Every place I worked, if they didn't have prior authorization for overtime, it was caught before payroll went in.
Oh yes, reversing a direct deposit is a thing. I looked at my online bank statement one pay day and my paycheck had been deposited 5 times, and reversed 4 times that day. And financial institutions that credit you with your paycheck two days early baffle me, at least if they involve employers like my former one who did not even submit the payroll to be direct deposited until pay day..........and they were timed to hit your account at 9 am pay day. And that is 9 am in YOUR time zone. We had locations in all 4 time zones in the continental U.S. so the paychecks were sent out 4 different times on pay day.The payroll company reversed the direct deposit (apparently that’s a thing) and I was issued a live paper check for the correct amount. It took a few days to get sorted, but thankfully we don’t live paycheck to paycheck so we were ok.