“I thought this was a conservative forum with mostly honest and moral people.”
I agree. I think we need some ethics classes around here.i wonder how many people know this:
A person commits the crime of theft of lost property if he actively obtains or exerts control over the property of another which he knows to have been lost or mislaid, or to have been delivered under a mistake as to the identity of the recipient or as to the nature or the amount of the property, and with intent to deprive the owner permanently of it, he fails to take reasonable measures to discover and notify the owner.
https://codes.findlaw.com/al/title-13a-criminal-code/al-code-sect-13a-8-6.html
““I thought this was a conservative forum with mostly honest and moral people.””
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It is a bit scary, isn’t it, suthener?
Years ago, I suffered a serious nervous breakdown due to work-related violence. For about 6-8 weeks I was totally out of it; as in, cannot recall that time span at all, for love nor money.
So I’m out of it and my beloved is managing the household as well as the finances. Workman Comp kicked in and he just let the checks go into the account.
When I finally went back to work a bit after the 6-8 weeks, I told my boss that Workman Comp had paid me way too much money as far as we could figure. My boss knew I would drive her crazy wanting to talk to someone to correct the issue so next day she has me on the phone with Workman Comp, as well as the company HR, and aside from my direct boss, another supervisor as well.
So they figure out what I need to return and I asked for the office information to send the check. You could have heard a pin drop. The Workman Comp lady (or was it the company PR? Cannot recall exactly) asked me what I meant. I said I have the entire amount and I think I owe more than what you think I do. I was told that she had **never** had any Workman Comp recipient hold off on the overpayment of funds, that they always had to get it back in small payments. The better news was that because I was insisting on settling it in one lump repayment that as far as they were concerned the case would be closed once I cut my check to them, no matter what may come up on an audit.
After the call I was almost speechless. I told my boss and the other supervisor that there was no way I could spend or that my beloved would spend monies we knew were not ours. I was really and truly shocked to find out people did such a thing. My boss and the other supervisor just it was so great they didn’t have to do anything. Good news for them, as well, I guess!
There was a time, years earlier, when the company overpaid me by $5 or so each pay period. It was small enough that I didn’t catch it. And one pay period I received only a few dollars. I panicked and went to the Secretary who handled those issues at the time and she got on the line and chewed out Payroll for them taking the money out without checking with the employee. She advised them if they’d check with my supervisor they’d have found out I most assuredly didn’t know I was being over paid. They put every cent back in a check they cut at her insistence and I paid it out like $25 a month for a while. A much shorter while than I had been getting it, for sure. LOL Since that time, I did my calculations to the penny and if it didn’t match I’d be on the phone with Payroll.
Then there was the time Payroll was practicing with REAL ACCOUNTS and removed my Payroll deposit into a regular check without me knowing about it.
Merciful, idiots inside and outside the company.
Sorry. Got on a rant.