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Sometimes a person’s biggest undoing is that they’re a jerk. Doesn’t matter if they’re at work, at home, out with friends, whatever, them being a jerk is like jamming a stick into their own bicycle wheel and then crying about no one liking them or not being very cooperative.
We’ll be talking about a similar situation today. A clerical error led to a woman receiving $1.2k from a company by mistake. She called them up, attempting to explain the issue, but a rude receptionist wouldn’t listen to her and just pretty much sent her packing.
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Sometimes a person would rather shoot themselves in the foot than be nice to you for a couple of moments
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The poster took it to the malicious compliance community to share her experience with a check refund after a clerical error
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She made a mistake addressing to whom the check would go and cancelled the transfer upon realizing
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Saulė is a photo editor at Bored Panda with bachelor's degree in Multimedia and Computer Design. The thing that relaxes her the best is going into YouTube rabbit hole. In her free time she loves painting, embroidering and taking walks in nature.
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Moezzzz Moezzzz Community Member Follow
The amount of people not reading that YES she paid her dad back, but with a CHECK instead of online payment.... eye's twitching over here..
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Cold Eagle Cold Eagle Community Member Follow
Oh thank god I was starting to wonder it it was me. I was concerned how that many people could miss it. And other elements too. 🤔🤦♀️
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ConstantlyJon ConstantlyJon Community Member Follow
We had a $3,000 check sent to us from my wife's old job years after she left. We called to see if it was real and why it had been sent to us. At first, we had planned on sending it back since it was an obvious mistake. But they confirmed it was real and ours to keep. We think what happened is my wife had extra vacation time when she left and it was a payout from that time. They probably tried telling her about it in her old email address that she didn't use anymore. She had a major surgery while she worked there and had to be out for over a month to recover. They asked her coworkers to donate PTO, and they must have donated so much PTO that she had $3,000 worth of vacation time left by the time she quit. Was a really huge help to us when finances were tough too.
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Amelia Jade 6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017
For the last year, our insurance has been paying us to go to the dentist. We have paid our co-pays, but then the insurance keeps sending us checks for what is still owed to the dentist. I thought maybe they weren't paying the dentist directly, and sending the money to us for when we received a bill. I called the dentist to find out our balance because we hadn't received bills. I was told we were squared up. Zero balance. So, I called insurance. They were rude, spoke to me like a child, could not explain to me why they were giving us this money. She made it sound like we had paid the dentist up front and they were reimbursing us because we filed a claim. I never file claims. My dentist does that. I just pay my copay, nothing more. I tried explaining that, but she acted like I was completely stupid. So, between five check ups, and two of the kids going back for a filling, we've made quite a bit. We've set it aside because we assume someone is going to ask for it eventually.
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Ken Beattie Ken Beattie Community Member Follow
I feel like in your case (and the one in the story) when you've made a legitimate attempt to return the money and they've refused it should become yours and they lose further claim on it. I don't think it's fair to not try to return money when it's an obvious mistake. But when they flat out refuse to take it back they should lose the right to chase you for it five weeks/months/years down the track.
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Moezzzz Moezzzz Community Member Follow
The amount of people not reading that YES she paid her dad back, but with a CHECK instead of online payment.... eye's twitching over here..
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Cold Eagle Cold Eagle Community Member Follow
Oh thank god I was starting to wonder it it was me. I was concerned how that many people could miss it. And other elements too. 🤔🤦♀️
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ConstantlyJon ConstantlyJon Community Member Follow
We had a $3,000 check sent to us from my wife's old job years after she left. We called to see if it was real and why it had been sent to us. At first, we had planned on sending it back since it was an obvious mistake. But they confirmed it was real and ours to keep. We think what happened is my wife had extra vacation time when she left and it was a payout from that time. They probably tried telling her about it in her old email address that she didn't use anymore. She had a major surgery while she worked there and had to be out for over a month to recover. They asked her coworkers to donate PTO, and they must have donated so much PTO that she had $3,000 worth of vacation time left by the time she quit. Was a really huge help to us when finances were tough too.
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Amelia Jade Amelia Jade Community Member Follow
For the last year, our insurance has been paying us to go to the dentist. We have paid our co-pays, but then the insurance keeps sending us checks for what is still owed to the dentist. I thought maybe they weren't paying the dentist directly, and sending the money to us for when we received a bill. I called the dentist to find out our balance because we hadn't received bills. I was told we were squared up. Zero balance. So, I called insurance. They were rude, spoke to me like a child, could not explain to me why they were giving us this money. She made it sound like we had paid the dentist up front and they were reimbursing us because we filed a claim. I never file claims. My dentist does that. I just pay my copay, nothing more. I tried explaining that, but she acted like I was completely stupid. So, between five check ups, and two of the kids going back for a filling, we've made quite a bit. We've set it aside because we assume someone is going to ask for it eventually.
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Ken Beattie Ken Beattie Community Member Follow
I feel like in your case (and the one in the story) when you've made a legitimate attempt to return the money and they've refused it should become yours and they lose further claim on it. I don't think it's fair to not try to return money when it's an obvious mistake. But when they flat out refuse to take it back they should lose the right to chase you for it five weeks/months/years down the track.
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