Money Moral Dilemma: Should I tell my employer it has overpaid me?

Of course you should tell them - why haven't you done so immediately?

You do realise by not telling them, you probably now won't get promotion because you'll be seen as untrustworthy?

I cannot believe you are even asking this question.

What a dishonest person you are. Shame on you.

Wow this forum literally is just packed full of timid wimpy wussy goody-goody neeks and nerds!! :rotfl::rotfl:

In reality ofcourse any/every normal person wouldn't say anything! :T

It's not your job to 'pay yourself' what you think your monthly salary is meant to be,
Nor do you have any legal responsibility to actually even check your bank balance each month to see how much you got paid exactly.

If the employer overpays you that's their loss.
You simply need to ''not notice ", and subsequently not rock the boat.


I have previously been overpaid by nearly £4,600 total (split between 2-occassions at 2 different employers), where I booked annual-leave days that I wasn't entitled to (or rather wouldn't be unless I actually worked the required number of shifts that year to qualify in retrospect).

It was simple tbh, as both very huge companies so mass admin, thus minimal attention to details by them;
And whilst I had full-time permenant employment contracts with both companies, ultimately my shifts were assigned by the site which I was working at, not by the corporate head-office company itself....
So all I did was simply work a few weeks at a site (over the course of 2-3 months), take 14-days in a row of annual-leave, got paid those 14-days at the end of that month; But I then simply declined to opt-in for future shifts at that site, and thus basically just being forgotten about by them, but yet still showing on the head-company's book as being a permenant employee of theirs (since I hadn't ever resigned). :beer:


At the time that setup suited me fine as I already had a solid regular monthly income from benefits, a weekend cash-in-hand job, and student finance loan + grant money | So was a excellent opportunity and gift of a few thousand in free cash. :T

Actually all of what I did was perfectly legitimate and legal. :money:

As I was perfectly entitled to book annual-leave, and I was perfectly entitled to choose if I opt-in for working for a specific employer or not.


If they had chosen to contact me and requested any money back, I would of reviewed their request and then refunded them any money which they were legally entitled to...
But if they didn't contact me to submit any such request, well that's their responsibility for failing to check their payroll setup properly (or maybe they were aware but felt I deserved the money).

Not exactly a dilemma, is it!