Company continues sending $5,000 in paychecks to former employee who repeatedly reports the payroll error but receives no response from HR: ‘It is a very poorly run business and she has experienced silly things like this with the company before’

In the endless game show of corporate incompetence, nothing tests our moral fiber quite like accidentally receiving money we didn't earn. It's a peculiar psychological experiment: how long can a normally honest person sit on a windfall before their conscience (or anxiety) gets the better of them?

While we all dream about sticking it to The Man, there's something uniquely stressful about being gifted cash through administrative bungling. It's like finding a wallet, except the owner is a faceless entity that probably spends more on office coffee than your annual salary.

These situations force us to wrestle with our complicated relationship with the corporate world. On one shoulder sits the angel reminding us about integrity and doing the right thing; on the other, a tiny devil calculating how many months of student loans this could pay off. And let's be honest - most of us would lose sleep either way, torn between moral obligation and the tempting thought that maybe, just maybe, the universe is finally balancing its books in our favor.

"Wife’s old employer overpaid her by nearly $5,000–silence on their end."

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Every corporate mishap that lands in our favor comes with its own shoulder-dwelling moral committee. This eternal shoulder debate gets especially heated when it comes to accidental corporate payouts.
The angel starts quoting workplace conduct manuals and muttering about “doing the right thing,” while the devil rolls its eyes and presents a PowerPoint about wealth inequality and how many unpaid overtime hours you’ve worked. Meanwhile, you’re stuck in the middle, watching your moral compass spin like it’s had too much coffee, wondering if honest people deserve to lose sleep over someone else’s accounting errors.
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