Posted on 09/18/2022 4:32:57 PM PDT by DFG
Oh indeed. Doesn’t come off well at all
“Being that this is bonuses, maybe the execs should give the workers a mulligan.”
I wouldn’t disagree but it’s a separate question.
I worked for Canon . This sounds very Japanese , no surprise.
Many years ago the company I worked for overpaid a bunch of people by sending double checks. One guy, who worked for me, cashed both checks and went on a spending spree. We made him pay it back. He told me “I knew it was wrong but just couldn’t help myself”.
I’m flabbergasted that so many of the replies are that the employees should get to keep what isn’t theirs. The company is being more than fair by giving them options to return the excess.
You can fire the people who did not catch the mistake.
And then you swallow hard and deal with it.
You can let it be known that a mistake was made and that you have chosen to not penalize your employees for something that was not their fault.
If every worker got $999 extra in bonuses it will not break the company.
And it would show you as a company that takes responsibility and does not sluff your errors off onto the innocent.
Or.. you do this.
This is very, very bad publicity for Honda.
The kind the comes with a great big price tag.
Back when I was a cog in the mega-corp machine I was taking things to my boss for him to sign off on that he did not read.
He had no idea what he was signing off on. He was a sales man. A really GOOD salesman. But he had no business giving approval to Capital purchases when he did not even know what they were for.
The plant manager and I were honest which was why things stayed ok. But we were missing a vital check to make sure we did not, in all innocence, make a mistake.
The liberal view point is "I made a mistake! Some one else benefited. WAHHHHH! It ain't fair! Make the person who benefited correct my mistake!
The conservative viewpoint is "Oh fudge. I made a mistake. Someone else benefited from my mistake. Oh well, life goes on."
Honda USA screwed up , not Honda JAPAN .
When you give someone a gift, it becomes theirs.
Bonuses are basically a gift. They are not earned wages.
If there had been a payroll error, that would have been different. But demanding part of a gift back because you were accidentally more generous than you intended? The epitome of classlessness.
Suck it up and learn from your mistake.
I got $1000 bonus over the weekend. Totally unexpected.
Wish we’d got it last year. Yowza that was some hard work; this year too but I was full-time for much of last year.
Glad they withheld taxes too. So it was quite $1000 but I’m grateful.
So it was NOT quite $1000
My dad’s pension check arrived on Feb 27 some years ago. He went to the bank, signed it, and cashed it.
He died the next day.
The check was dated March 1. The company wanted the money back.
My mom went to the bank and explained the situation. The bank told my mom that my dad signed it - the money was his.
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