Hi everyone-
Stuck in a weird situation… I have been the GM of a bar for 3 years (this month). The location is closing due to failed negotiations with the current landlord. I was actually offered a promotion to Regional Manager instead of being laid off- kind of “retention” carrot for me. This comes with a significant raise, but wasn't scheduled to be official until the end of June, raise and title both.
Last paycheck was more than I was expecting and so I looked at my pay rate on this online portal that handles that kind of thing, and realized they activated my raise early. I went straight to our HR person to make sure it wasn't a mistake. Their response was “Oh, yes, I scheduled it earlier than agreed upon, but just consider this a bonus and we'll adust it back to the scheduled time”. Ok, cool.
Fast forward to this pay period- the CEO and COO caught wind and they've instructed our finance director to ask me to write them a personal check for the difference in pay, since I wasn't yet authorized to receive that amount. I'm thinking it's kinda effed up, since I was trying to be honest- but whatever. My real question is why they wouldn't just deduct it from my future paycheck and ask me to write a personal check for the amount… wouldn't that screw with my taxes reported (granted it is a smallish amount, but nothing I did wrong)?
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I'm also just left with a bad taste in my mouth about all this, and am considering looking for other work, even though this is a position I have worked really hard for.