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[Gary A.]

Calculate the interest until it's paid and send them a bill for that amount.

Bless Your Heart here in the US, government doesn't Pay for their mistakes!!!

Nor does ours... missed the bit where this was a gummint job. Regardless, I would still do it, and pay the service fee to turn it over to a collection agency. Never hurts to try and get the message across.

Well ... you could subtract the accrued interest from your taxes. (But that won't fly because it is a civil case requiring a court action to collect ... the government only allows certain lawsuits against them, this being one of them which is not allowed.)

 

[JonA_CT]

Calculate the interest until it's paid and send them a bill for that amount.

Bless Your Heart here in the US, government doesn't Pay for their mistakes!!!

Nor does ours... missed the bit where this was a gummint job. Regardless, I would still do it, and pay the service fee to turn it over to a collection agency. Never hurts to try and get the message across.

Well ... you could subtract the accrued interest from your taxes. (But that won't fly because it is a civil case requiring a court action to collect ... the government only allows certain lawsuits against them, this not being one of them allowed.)

She works for the city we live in. I'll forget to pay them and see how it goes.

 

[Gary A.]

It’s unbelievable how bad some people are at their job. My wife’s maternity leave ended 2 weeks ago. All along the way she had to redo and resubmit paperwork to her payroll office because they continually erred. She had to go to her union multiple times to have things fixed.

Now...she didn’t get paid today. We don’t know why, but I’m guessing it’s because no one ever actually returned her “to work” on their system. This, of course, after 5 rounds of paperwork between them, my wife, her union rep and her doctors to confirm her return date.

I hope she's in a position to camp out in the Payroll office until someone manually creates her check, and hands it to her. The fault is theirs and they need to right it - immediately. Every organization I've worked for, large or small, would get her a manual check ASAP, so she could get it to the bank today.

Have you ever worked for the government?

 

[Gary A.]

Calculate the interest until it's paid and send them a bill for that amount.

Bless Your Heart here in the US, government doesn't Pay for their mistakes!!!

Nor does ours... missed the bit where this was a gummint job. Regardless, I would still do it, and pay the service fee to turn it over to a collection agency. Never hurts to try and get the message across.

Well ... you could subtract the accrued interest from your taxes. (But that won't fly because it is a civil case requiring a court action to collect ... the government only allows certain lawsuits against them, this not being one of them allowed.)

She worked for the city we live in. I'll forget to pay them and see how it goes.

Something about a lien on your house comes to mind ...

 

[JonA_CT]

It’s unbelievable how bad some people are at their job. My wife’s maternity leave ended 2 weeks ago. All along the way she had to redo and resubmit paperwork to her payroll office because they continually erred. She had to go to her union multiple times to have things fixed.

Now...she didn’t get paid today. We don’t know why, but I’m guessing it’s because no one ever actually returned her “to work” on their system. This, of course, after 5 rounds of paperwork between them, my wife, her union rep and her doctors to confirm her return date.

I hope she's in a position to camp out in the Payroll office until someone manually creates her check, and hands it to her. The fault is theirs and they need to right it - immediately. Every organization I've worked for, large or small, would get her a manual check ASAP, so she could get it to the bank today.

Her union rep is a pit bull so she doesn't have to go sit there herself, but I just sent this to her as a suggestion for immediate resolution. I think they'd just as rather wait until the next payroll date to fix it.

 

[JonA_CT]

Calculate the interest until it's paid and send them a bill for that amount.

Bless Your Heart here in the US, government doesn't Pay for their mistakes!!!

Nor does ours... missed the bit where this was a gummint job. Regardless, I would still do it, and pay the service fee to turn it over to a collection agency. Never hurts to try and get the message across.

Well ... you could subtract the accrued interest from your taxes. (But that won't fly because it is a civil case requiring a court action to collect ... the government only allows certain lawsuits against them, this not being one of them allowed.)

She worked for the city we live in. I'll forget to pay them and see how it goes.

Something about a lien on the house come to mind ...

Hah. Sure. They're bad about that stuff too. A squatter just died in a fire in one of our city-owned tax-repossessed homes that they've taken but have sat on for years.

 

[Gary A.]

As this was most likely a fault of a union member(s) and not management, Gary thinks that the rep isn't gonna make a big stink against a due paying union rank and file member(s).

 

[terri33 4]

It’s unbelievable how bad some people are at their job. My wife’s maternity leave ended 2 weeks ago. All along the way she had to redo and resubmit paperwork to her payroll office because they continually erred. She had to go to her union multiple times to have things fixed.

Now...she didn’t get paid today. We don’t know why, but I’m guessing it’s because no one ever actually returned her “to work” on their system. This, of course, after 5 rounds of paperwork between them, my wife, her union rep and her doctors to confirm her return date.

I hope she's in a position to camp out in the Payroll office until someone manually creates her check, and hands it to her. The fault is theirs and they need to right it - immediately. Every organization I've worked for, large or small, would get her a manual check ASAP, so she could get it to the bank today.

Her union rep is a pit bull so she doesn't have to go sit there herself, but I just sent this to her as a suggestion for immediate resolution. I think they'd just as rather wait until the next payroll date to fix it.

Next payroll date?! Quite simply, that's a BS position on their part. Whether you *need* the money or not is kind of beside the point - the point is, no one works for free and she's owed. I never had a staffer who didn't come screaming to me, pants-on-fire, when Payroll messed up a check. It was always cut manually same day - one thing any employer wants to avoid is a phone call from their state's Dept. of Labor. Just my experience as a manager. I hope they make it right quickly for her!

 

[Gary A.]

Gary just checked with Mary Lou who has worked 43 years in government. Gary asked her if she experienced a screwed up check. Once, she said, she had to call payroll and informed them she was shorted $800. Payroll agreed that her calculations were correct and that the mistake will be corrected on her next check. She told them that won't work ... they responded with an official equivalent of too bad. She called the head of the accounting/payroll department and lodged her complaint. A check was cut for her that very day. So when the minions say no, go higher.

 

[JonA_CT]

As this was most likely a fault of a union member(s) and not management, Gary thinks that the rep isn't gonna make a big stink against a due paying union rank and file member(s).

Different bargaining units, if the office staff are even unionized, which they may not be. Only certified non-classified staff members are a part of her union.

 

[Gary A.]

Every full time, non-management employee of a school district is union out here. The faculty are union, certified. The staff are union, classified.

 

[SquarePeg37 7]

If CT labor laws are similar to MA they would need to correct this and issue a manual paycheck should she request it.

Sort of related story... When I returned to work from maternity leave I did a gradual return working 2, then 3, then 4, then 5 days/week over the course of the first year before returning full time. When I went from 4 to 5 days my first paycheck didn't reflect an increase and I questioned our payroll clerk about it. He insisted it was correct. I went through every paycheck from my maternity leave through that day and showed my boss how it was not adding up. It was confusing because our company payroll was done with pay in advance and exceptions in arrears. My boss, took my info very seriously and she was dogged in tracking down someone to help. She finally got someone in payroll to review it and sure enough, they didn't just owe me for one day, they owed me for a whole week's pay. They should have paid me for a full week my first week back even though I was only working 2 days! They immediately issued me a manual check for the shortage. 3 other women in my office who had been on maternity leave and then gradual return to work in the previous 3 years were also owed a week's pay when they looked into it. I was pretty popular that day, I have to say.

 

[JonA_CT]

HR said that it was issued incorrectly. Now it's a matter of the Payroll office fixing it. I guess when my wife contacted the HR person this morning, her response was "Are you 'jamming' kidding me? Again?" .

 

[smoke665]

I try not to watch the 24 hour cable news, but occasionally I will make the mistake of switching one on. Today, I happened on Fox at a time when there were 4 women sitting on couches giving their "opinions" on some current event. Three of the women were fairly conservative dressed with skirts above the knees, while sitting, while one had a skirt so short that her butt cheeks and part of her underpants were revealed to the camera. Now I'm not a prude, but if a man or woman wants me to take their "opinions" seriously they better dress like it.

 

[davidharmier60]

Afternoon peeps. Dave did about 7 minutes less than 4.5 hours today.
He asked for penny wrappers at the bank yesterday and they were miserly with them.
Went back today and asked for a big stack and GOT one. If he does 20 more rolls today the boss lady at work would buy them tomorrow. At 80% 2017D these rolls would make excellent change.

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