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