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[knee-highs]

I was informed yesterday that a little over 7 million won of my overtime was accidentally paid into the account of my co-worker. This is the same co-worker who trashed the turkey for my Christmas party a few months ago.

My boss asked me to just get the money back from the Canuck and when I approached him on the issue he laughed and said "go sue me then".

This guy has really gotten under my skin over the last year and struts around waving his visa status like some kind of impenetrable shield. I admit some of this may be my own negligence, since I don't bother to check my payslips every month. Part of the reason is that my pay is all automatically forwarded to a charity I established some years back.

Still, I wonder if I should pursue this more aggressively or just bide my time and hope he gives back the money?

[BoholDiver]

I'd pursue 2 routes:

1. Ask again. And again. Make it clear the money is not his, and he can't keep it.

2. Tell the boss that it was his mistake, not yours, and his to fix.

[ChilgokBlackHole]

Not your problem. Not your problem to fix.

[Gnawbert]

[CentralCali]

Maybe the boss will go for this solution: he pays you the 7 mil he owes you and when the Canadian asks the boss where his pay is next couple of paydays, the boss just smiles and says, "Oh, you already got that in advance. Don't you remember that 7 mil deposited in your account?"

At any rate, it's the boss's mistake, not the Canadian's and certainly not the OP's. The boss still owes the money to the OP and if anyone should be suing the Canadian, it'd be the boss.

[air76]

I call BS.

Who pays so little attention to their pay that they don't notice 7 million won missing?

And where are you working that you're making THAT much money in overtime? You must be working a lot of overtime to make a million or two a month extra....and so you work all these extra hours and then don't make sure that the school is paying you?

Clearly if your story is true you should not bide your time...if my school owed me 7 million won and were refusing to pay I'd be pounding on my boss's apartment door and refuse to leave until he/she transfered the money into my account via ATM. The fact that you even ask whether or not you should pursue this aggressively leads me to believe that you are exaggerating and embellishing your story...but hey, that's what the internet is for.

[Globutron]

I thought the internet was for porn

[brento1138]

Odd story.

But isn't it obvious that since it is the fault of your boss, he or she should step in and fix the problem?

[AsiaESLbound]

Boss pitting you against him? Sounds like an intentional mistake as you don't just pay a tidy sum to the wrong person by mistake and if you do, the payment could be reversed.

[T-Bone]

[jinks]

This happened to me too. My overtime got paid to a co-worker with a similar name, by the time I tracked it down I was ropable. Fortunately my co-worker is a decent guy and it's not like we haven't had this kind of mix-up before (medical reports etc.). What the administrators couldn't understand was - it was not my responsibility to get the money back; my work is teaching, not pay-roll. It was all resolved swiftly, and reasonably amicably, but I did do a fair bit of hissing down the telephone (more threatening than shouting, I've found) to make my point.

[Forever]

If the OP is telling the truth, then

Overtime is salary.

The fact is the OP's employer did NOT pay him/her his/her salary.

The OP just has to go to the Labor office and make a complaint that his/her employer DID NOT pay him/her, his/her salary.

Let the employer try to explain to the Labor office that he/she paid the OP's employer to the wrong person.



First, the OP should inform his/her employer that he/she is going to the Labor office and give the employer the option that if the employer doesn't want the Op to go to the Labor office then the employer should do this -

[knee-highs]

[oskinny1]

[BoholDiver]

Yes, but it doesn't change anything. The co-worker ought to give the money back, or the boss ought to rectify the problem.

From the sounds of it, 7 million won could be a lump sum of 6 months or mre of built-up overtime, hence the oversight.