Payroll department employee notices coworker gets a raise by mistake and doesn’t alert anyone: ‘HR discovered the mistake. They are correcting future paychecks and want to recover the overpaid amount over the next year. The coworker is obv devastated’

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  • I work in payrole so I have access to salary information last month while processing updates i noticed a coworker in another department had accidentally been given a rise which was clearly
  • meant for someone else this wasn't a typo by me to be clear, it had already been approved by HR. The problem is that I am not supposed to discuss payroll information with employees my job is to
  • process what's approved only. A few weeks later that coworker excitedly told everyone they had finally been recognised for their hard work they used the extra money to sign a
  • lease on nicer apartment. Yesterday the HR discovered the mistake. They are correcting future paychecks and want to recover the overpaid amount over the next year.
  • The coworker is obv devastated and says if anyone had never would've made those financial decisions. A mutual friend whom I discussed about this
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  • earlier said I should've warned him weeks ago while ignoring the company's policy. I feel terrible at this point, but i also think violating payroll confidentiality could've gotten me fired I
  • think I shouldn't have stayed selfish AITA for staying quiet?
  • Hopeful-Reveal-9982 Are you a robot? You saw an error, knew it was a big mistake and you thought "oh well this is someone elses mistake so i am going to proceed with it anyway"
  • Chemical_Author7880 NTA for not telling the employee. That's policy for your job. YTA for not alerting HR AND for sharing this info with the mutual friend.
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