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(UPI) Unlikely Ex-Viagra employee mailed large severance check in error. Wants to keep entire amount, stiff the company   (upi.com) divider line 28
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basemetal [TotalFark]
2011-10-31 09:55:08 AM
Meh, quit trying to stiff your former employer. You knew the check was too big. I know life is hard, but you're in the wrong.
 
BizarreMan
2011-10-31 10:49:42 AM
If your excessive severance check lasts more than four years. Please call your doctor because serious side effects may occur.
 
bulok
2011-10-31 10:57:52 AM
haha the company pulled a boner
 
Russ1642 [TotalFark]
2011-10-31 11:00:47 AM
I opened the article thinking that it was another idiot playing by Monopoly rules, ie Bank Error In Your Favour Collect $200. But if they can't spot a mistake that large in almost two years then it's gone. I'm sure there are more details to this case though so you can't be 100% sure that it wasn't extremely obvious and an actual case of theft.
 
Harvey Manfrenjensenjen
2011-10-31 11:03:10 AM
Pfizer Vice President Janet Rodriguez, 54, of New York was let go in December 2009 in a round of company layoffs and on March 31, 2010, the company issued a $517,140.24 severance check, the New York Post reported Sunday.

Several months later Pfizer said it was a misunderstanding and began efforts to recover what it said was an inadvertent overpayment.

The VPs of HR and accounting need to be the next to go. If the person is a VP maybe the 500K isn't too out of line, so maybe in the long run it's cheaper to just not worry about it. If that is way out of line with what it was supposed to be and it took months to discover, the problem is your piss-poor internal controls. Take the money you're going to spend on attorneys on this case and instead spend it on shoring up your internal controls and procedures.
 
groppet
2011-10-31 11:04:40 AM
About 4 years ago I got a letter in the mail from my old company that laid me off saying they owed me money a few weeks later 2 checks for $700 each showed up, that was pretty sweet
 
mcreadyblue
2011-10-31 11:36:26 AM
I had a friend quite and the company accidentally kept him on payroll for 6 months. Legal advice he got said he was under no obligation to return the money.
 
Cloudchaser Sakonige the Red Wolf
2011-10-31 11:56:51 AM
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2011/10/31/Watercooler-Stories/UPI-2996132 0057000/

"The intact body of a 76-pound deer was found inside a nearly 16-foot-long Burmese python in the Florida Everglades, officials said"

WTF?!
 
DubyaHater
2011-10-31 12:01:14 PM
Cloudchaser Sakonige the Red Wolf: http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2011/10/31/Watercooler-Stories/UPI-299613 2 0057000/

"The intact body of a 76-pound deer was found inside a nearly 16-foot-long Burmese python in the Florida Everglades, officials said"

WTF?!

Scroll down. There's a better story about how Halloween is becoming a sexual fantasy for adults.
 
jst3p
2011-10-31 12:01:21 PM
Cloudchaser Sakonige the Red Wolf: http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2011/10/31/Watercooler-Stories/UPI-299613 2 0057000/

"The intact body of a 76-pound deer was found inside a nearly 16-foot-long Burmese python in the Florida Everglades, officials said"

WTF?!

Second story on the page.
 
Stone Meadow
2011-10-31 12:03:19 PM
Cloudchaser Sakonige the Red Wolf: http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2011/10/31/Watercooler-Stories/UPI-299613 2 0057000/

"The intact body of a 76-pound deer was found inside a nearly 16-foot-long Burmese python in the Florida Everglades, officials said"

WTF?!

Indeed. That story was MUCH more interesting than the stupid overpayment issue.
 
Logweasel
2011-10-31 12:23:21 PM
groppet: About 4 years ago I got a letter in the mail from my old company that laid me off saying they owed me money a few weeks later 2 checks for $700 each showed up, that was pretty sweet

Wow, that does sound pretty sweet you should try Googling 'run-on sentence'
 
gadian [TotalFark]
2011-10-31 12:33:52 PM
The federal government has this habit of saying things like "hey, we over paid you for about a year, so we're witholding X dollars from your next paychecks to make up the difference. Enjoy your garnishment".
 
Mayhem of the Black Underclass
2011-10-31 12:42:01 PM
Hey, Armchair lawyer (esqchr) here. If it's been more than six months that he's had the check, they're SOL.
 
cybrgeezer
2011-10-31 12:49:56 PM
basemetal: Meh, quit trying to stiff your former employer. You knew the check was too big. I know life is hard, but you're in the wrong.

Meh, quit trying to stiff your former employee. You knew the check was too big. I know life is hard, but they're in the wrong
 
MatrixOutsider [TotalFark]
2011-10-31 01:14:21 PM
A publicly traded company such as Pfizer is supposed to follow strict SOX (accounting) regulations that include controls that prevent mistakes and fraud. In other words, many pairs of eyes should have seen this check and questioned it before it was printed, signed, and mailed.
 
neaorin [TotalFark]
2011-10-31 01:36:17 PM
Pfizer Vice President Janet Rodriguez, 54, of New York was let go in December 2009 in a round of company layoffs

I call shenanigans. I have been assured by many Fark.com School of Business alumni that only peons get fired while senior management give each other huge bonuses and have money fights every other week.

/ I also can't imagine why they'd let her go. She seems like such a great person.
 
basemetal [TotalFark]
2011-10-31 01:44:14 PM
cybrgeezer: basemetal: Meh, quit trying to stiff your former employer. You knew the check was too big. I know life is hard, but you're in the wrong.

Meh, quit trying to stiff your former employee. You knew the check was too big. I know life is hard, but they're in the wrong

either way......
 
Pick
2011-10-31 02:18:06 PM
That Viagra is so overpriced, I don't know why some other companies are not making it and selling it cheaper on the internet.
 
Knara
2011-10-31 02:22:17 PM
I don't understand.

If I write someone a check that is too large and then months later I want the overage back, I'm probably SOL.

Why is it different for Pzifer?
 
wombatsrus
2011-10-31 02:57:12 PM
This will be a hard case to try, but I'm sure the jurors will be able to put their heads together and come up with a stiff result instead of a flaccid verdict.
 
BizarreMan
2011-10-31 03:06:15 PM
csb

Years ago we had a guy who just started in marketing. Somehow payroll screwed up to where instead of getting 1/2 of his bi-weekly salary on his first check, he got 40 hours at his bi-weekly rate. Net amount of the check was over $50k. And for some reason they had turned off pre-note so it was all direct deposited. He was like um guys, I appreciate the gesture, but for the love of god, take this money back and get me the right amount.

/csb
 
protectyourlimbs
2011-10-31 03:24:28 PM
jasonbent.net
 
Arkanaut
2011-10-31 03:34:01 PM
Please do not sever my large package.
 
Terrified Asexual Forcemeat
2011-10-31 06:22:42 PM
Richard Pryor's feet here.
 
Kwai Lo
2011-10-31 08:48:31 PM
I quit a job years ago, and had benefits still from them for almost 2 years. I was finally cut off when they switched insurance providers.
 
Britney Spear's Speculum
2011-10-31 10:17:06 PM
Knara: I don't understand.

If I write someone a check that is too large and then months later I want the overage back, I'm probably SOL.

Why is it different for Pzifer?

Shaddap 99%er
 
abb3w [TotalFark]
2011-11-01 09:25:37 AM
Knara: If I write someone a check that is too large and then months later I want the overage back, I'm probably SOL.
Why is it different for Pzifer?

Because the check is almost certainly associated with a written contract.
And because the overage is more than enough to put a lawyer on salary for a year.
 
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