Originally Posted by
notEnuf
Happened to me once. They were very responsive in rectifying that error. My career experience is to be underpaid by thousands annually while being overpaid by less than $200 once. For some reason that single overpayment got their attention and action much more quickly.
A lot of it is the nature of how we are paid. The things that result in payment other than our standard pay are usually ones that require higher pay. It is generally difficult for a situation to arise to result in overpayment, but there are a lot of situations that can result in non standard payments and thus potential for underpayment. I'm not defending the amount of mistakes, just that the direction doesn't necessarily indicate malice.