Money Moral Dilemma: Should I give my employer the compensation for my delay?

Wyndham

If it's bothering you, give the £50 to a charity of your choice.

I suspect your employer will not want it back due to the red tape it will cause.

j4yse

I cant believe that anybody would even ask this question!!!!!! Its your time, its your life. The money is to compensate you!

Janbob

Plain and simple - NO. You experienced the delay not your employer!

SandraDJ

I'm almost sure that this is a repeat - I have a vague memory of the question being asked before some time ago.

JuliusCaesar

As you were late home it was you who was inconvenienced so you are entitled to keep the money as compensation.

If a train delay had occurred during normal working hours and you had not arrived home any later than normal then it might be different.

PasturesNew

Keep it. The company got what it paid for. You didn't get what you agreed to. You're being compensated for your loss of time. There was no loss to the company.

GothicStirling

Maybe me being a little dense, but if the company paid for the train ticket (I imagine through the company credit card), wouldn't any compensation then be paid straight back onto the card, so the employee wouldn't see any of it anyway.


Anyhow, I believe the question is a hypothetical one posed by a staff member of MSE.

Cimscate

Your post says it all, you had the inconvenience so you have the compensation. I doubt if your company have a methodology for reclaiming anyway. However if you really feel that bad about it make your own decision and ask them!

Takeaway_Addict

PasturesNew wrote: »

Keep it. The company got what it paid for. You didn't get what you agreed to. You're being compensated for your loss of time. There was no loss to the company.

How do you know there wasn't? What if the person is paid for their travel time to home?

doctorblunkett

Deleted%20User wrote: »

Thief is thief in my book, however you want to dress it up. But then this forum does go on kind of go on 'supposed entitlement' 'if the face fits' all the way, so what should one really expect.

time is valuable. the delay means OP was forced to spend their time in a way and in a place that they did not choose to.


there is no thief element as nothing was stolen. OP spent their time and was compensated. The journey still happened so the company cannot complain.


your reasoning is not very bright and a tad inflammatory.