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Army Overpays Soldier, Soldier Overpays Them Back, Has To Mop Floors

We're talking pennies here, man. But alas, the soldier gets overpaid, and then on top of having to pay the Army back, they're required to mop the floors. 

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    Text - r/tifu u/[deleted] • 1y + JOIN TIFU by chuckling away being overpaid. Obligatory "this concluded today" - I've been working for Uncle Sam for about 7 years now. I'm severely desensitized to government fuckups and one day I received a letter from DFAS (the guys who actually pay us) that I was overpaid two whole cents.
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    Text - Silly I thought, between the postage (which for the government is free, but for someone it costs something) which I could probably estimate to be around 75 cents, The man-hours of sorting, sending and tracking that damn letter, and the gas money used to ship the thing to my front door - It was probably a 5 dollar letter. to collect 2 cents. Laughing it off I taped it to my fridge as a reminder of whom I work for and why I should always pay my taxes as they are put to good use (looking at
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    Text - Now l'm kinda miffed and beyond amused that not only do they pay me before I ever see my money, meaning that fuckups are entirely on them - but now l'm being hounded for their fuckup and collectively we are all down about 10 bucks of taxpayer money. Being the Class A humorous guy that I am, I send an envelope with three pennies in it, and a poorly written sticky note saying "heer yore 2 cent, I kunted et al myself. I lobe me job." Covered the entirety of the envelope in stamps, harry pott
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    Text - This was a bad play because apparently Feds have no sense of humor. Two weeks later, one week ago I got called into my officer's office. Not a place an enlisted man ever wants to be, I was sketched out but "it does what its told". I'm standing there on the rug when he pulls out from his desk an envelope from our paycheck people. "[me], mind explaining to me why I received a letter containing a single penny with a note explaining how you overpaid 19 dollars postage on a letter, over a two
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    Text - "Well, if you feel that patriotic, you can patriotically volunteer your free time too - We need these floors clean for [reason] and were looking for a class A go- getter to clean them. Apparently captains have no sense of humor either. Until tonight, I've been spending my free time mopping a lot of floor space. Thank you Army. I will never forget you. TIDR; Army overpaid me 2 cents, I paid them back three and had to mop floors for their fuckup because feds have sticks up their asses by bi
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