My generous employer
I took unpaid leave to accompany our offspring on an extended summer vacation. As required, I filled in the requisite application, got the requisite signatures on it, and received confirmation from HR that I would indeed be on unpaid leave.
But they paid me anyway. In fact, I think they paid me twice as much while I was on leave as I get for actually working. Part of this is that HR didn’t communicate clearly with Payroll. The other part is that I underwent a performance review (after being a full-time employee for only 6 weeks, but that’s another story) and qualified for a pay raise. That evidently triggered an additional payment regime, rather than supplanting the original one. So I returned to find my bank account overflowing with a couple of payments at the increased rate, supplementing the other, unstopped payments. I’m rich!
Or rather, my project grant is poor! Once the YOG lockdown ceases this weekend, I can access the office, along with the HR, budget and payroll staff I’ll need to deal with in order to sort this out. Let’s assume I start the ball rolling on Monday morning – how long do you think it will take all and sundry to straighten this out? I’d say a minimum of two weeks, perhaps lingering on for eight. Anyone want to make bets on it?
August 31st, 2010 at 10:55 am
OK, on Monday, August 30 I called the Finance guy and emailed him telling him of the extra payments. The clock is now ticking!
September 2nd, 2010 at 7:53 am
Well, it’s Thursday, and I received email from the nice man in Finance telling me how much I should reimburse the Institute and where to send the check. Only three days -who’d have thought it? Other large institutions are a lot sloppier with their money, but I guess this is the Singapore difference.