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We submit our expenses every 3 months. I just checked mt online account and i am about £50 short of what i claimed for. Everything was legitimate and none of it was questioned therefore i was expecting the full claim.
However, this isn't the case and i've pointed this out and asked for the difference to be explained.
Is this illegal? Does it amount to wage theft?
Whats your advice?
Thanks
Hanlon's Razor applies here I think.
Is this illegal? Does it amount to wage theft?
I reckon a simple error so don't got getting the police involved...just yet. 🙂
However, this isn't the case and i've pointed this out and asked for the difference can be explained.
Wait for an answer
Is this illegal? Does it amount to wage theft?Whats your advice?
yep wait until work tells you what they did. perhaps everything wasn't in order or something was missing.
Whats your advice?
Wait. Anyone can make a mistake.
and asked for the difference can be explained
Maybe wait for a reply? If you're not happy, maybe discuss it with your line manager / HR?
Whats your advice?
Burn their offices down - evil capitalist thugs!
...or wait until they reply.
Does it amount to wage theft
🙄
Seriously? If the claim was in order then of course it is a simple error.
being the guy in this company that signs off the expenses and passes them to be paid, just ask then.
You really could not believe what some people think can get submitted, the bad maths and lack of receipts.
Why does money bring the worst out in people who are so right!!
Whats your advice?
Go ****ing postal!!!
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Burn their offices down
Definitely this.
Seems a bit premature to create this thread before knowing why it's £50 short, as has been said already, it could be your mistake it could the their mistake - I highly doubt everything's in order and they just decided not to pay £50 of it, which would be the only reason to create a rant thread...
[i]Is this illegal? Does it amount to wage theft?[/i]
Is what legal? You don't know the reason yet, maybe you made a mistake, maybe the person processing the claim made a mistake.
Think you need to back off a wee bit.
And as you own the company I would sack the moron who committed this act of thievery.
They're definitely all plotting against you. First its this, then....
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Obviously you should immediately ream them a new orifice with a rusty pair of bombers.
...or ask them.
Obviously we all know you are going to ask them, just let us know the outcome. There's too many unclosed ranty threads here as it is!
I was hardly ranting. Some of the answers are more ranty than my OP.
TBF
does read as quite ranty.Is this illegal? Does it amount to wage theft?
I'd phone 999 about it or nuke the office from orbit.
Is this illegal? Does it amount to wage theft?
me think he doth protest too much
I was hardly ranting.
posting on here before you have heard back from your work about legality and wage theft might be considered an over reaction
[i]I was hardly ranting. Some of the answers are more ranty than my OP. [/i]
Pretty silly and unreasonable accusation without a response from whoever does your expenses.
The obvious answer is take a trip to the stationary cupboard an relieve the company of 50 quid's worth of Bic's, pencils rubbers & notepads.
or alternatively wait until they reply.
Burning down the office would be over the top. You should just burn company assets up to the value of £50.
I'd probably post a ranty message on an mtb forum about it.
*walks towards office with molotov cocktail
maybe they are claiming back time wasted on the internet?
Steal two rolls of toilet paper every week for a year.
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The obvious answer is take a trip to the stationary cupboard an relieve the company of 50 quid's worth of Bic's, pencils rubbers & notepads.or alternatively wait until they reply
Have you been reading "Christie Malry's Own Double Entry"?
the OP off to chat about his expenses...
Ah you work for Singletrack Magazine, and are afraid to ask directly to asked anonymously on their forum.To shame them into paying.
im almost as outraged* by this as i was about how unserious folks were taking the urgent mazda speaker thread yesterday....
* not outraged at all....
make sure to stamp on someone's cereal for this!
no pudding or curtains for them either !
OP going into work, tomorrow.
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Err nope, and I'm not too sure I should even Google that in the office....Have you been reading "Christie Malry's Own Double Entry"?
Worst "I get expenses" thread evaaaaarrrrr!
I'm pretty sure there's a mob for hire in London at the moment as they're probably at a loose end after their last "job" at that cereal shop.
Joking aside, I'd say it's more of a 101 matter than a 999 matter.
I bet if you were £50 up you wouldn't be posting about how to give it back.
I'm pretty sure there's a mob for hire in London at the moment as they're probably at a loose end after their last "job" at that cereal shop.
Maybe that's the issue ,the Op's been claiming for breakfasts at the above establishment and are objecting to the absurd costs by withholding £50.
pah £50 that wouldn't cover my [s]abuse[/s] use of the photocopier each year, let alone the printer, laminator and the stationary cupboard. If I was owed £50 I'd have a few sets of white board markers, and a dozen packs of blue tack and maybe a box of biro's on loan until it was resolved. Mind you I wouldn't tell them like they didn't tell you about not getting paid your £50.
Then again I would just call payroll or HR and chat to them, they'd probably be happy to know where that receipt came from that's floating around on there desk.
Burn the office to the ground. Then nuke it from orbit, just to be sure.
Then when you find the smoldering scrap of paper showing a mis-typed digit or an incorrect addition you can take it to your boss and ask if there was an issue with your expenses or a mistake somewhere in the claim processing. It will turn out to be something minor, at which point you can turn the discussion to the large radioactive crater where your desks used to be.
😆 to every post so far. Double 😆 😆
Maybe it's a deduction for all the time you spend on STW (probably using the company phone and PC) instead of working?
Then again I would just call payroll or HR and chat to them, they'd probably be happy to know where that receipt came from that's floating around on there desk.
That would just be playing the game by their rules. Much better to just go postal: storm into the finance department and stab them all to death with a pencil (taken from the stationary cupboard).
m360 thats a good shout, there was a time around 7 or 8 years ago when asked what I did for a living I would answer I was a professional web surfer, until redundancy struck.
Slighty drifting away from the OP - at the company I used to work for, a manual worker put a receipt in one week - for a stamp
Slighty drifting away from the OP - at the company I used to work for, a manual worker put a receipt in one week - for a stamp
On the flipside. Whilst working for the civil service I added my expenses up slightly wrong. They underpaid me by about 35 pence.
The director of finance got involved in the end and insisted a cheque had to be issued to me to sort it out.
This was before austerity...
Have you heard of a bloke called Ronnie Pickering? Have a word with him he'll collect the debt!
Some very amusing posts here.
I won't be burning the office down though as I work from home.
Ronnie Pickering? Never heard of him.
There is this guy on the interweb though - Wonnie Pickewin. Perhaps he knows him?