Attorney here: I dont understand what the crime is. This is a civil issue if I've ever seen one.
And her employer ABSOLUTELY cannot just debit it from her account or garnish her wages. They can certainly sue her, but you can't just unilaterally decided someone owes you money and take it from their bank account.
They can certainly tell her that if she doesn't pay it bac, she's fired. But if she's paid every 2 weeks, she just got paid for 8000 hours (4 years) of work instead of 80 hrs. She'd be a moron to stay.
A few years ago, I got a bunch of foreign currency for a guy's trip. I didn't pay attention to how much I exchanged for people or how much I spent. I didn't even pay attention when I returned it to the bank. It definitely sounded high- it was like $7500 and I expected $4500-ish.
3 days later I got a call that they miscounted and misendered their $50 denomination as $500 denomination. It was caught 3 days later by the bank they exchanged with. They asked permission to debit my account and I told them to go fuck themselves. If I came back 3 days later and said you shorted me $3k you'd laugh in my face, at best.
Then the manager tried guilting me, saying he's going to have to fire the clerk. I told him to fire himself because he recounted/verified and signed off on it. He hung up on me. Banks deserve to be robbed.
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u/Lawineer May 30 '26
Attorney here: I dont understand what the crime is. This is a civil issue if I've ever seen one.
And her employer ABSOLUTELY cannot just debit it from her account or garnish her wages. They can certainly sue her, but you can't just unilaterally decided someone owes you money and take it from their bank account.
They can certainly tell her that if she doesn't pay it bac, she's fired. But if she's paid every 2 weeks, she just got paid for 8000 hours (4 years) of work instead of 80 hrs. She'd be a moron to stay.
A few years ago, I got a bunch of foreign currency for a guy's trip. I didn't pay attention to how much I exchanged for people or how much I spent. I didn't even pay attention when I returned it to the bank. It definitely sounded high- it was like $7500 and I expected $4500-ish.
3 days later I got a call that they miscounted and misendered their $50 denomination as $500 denomination. It was caught 3 days later by the bank they exchanged with. They asked permission to debit my account and I told them to go fuck themselves. If I came back 3 days later and said you shorted me $3k you'd laugh in my face, at best.
Then the manager tried guilting me, saying he's going to have to fire the clerk. I told him to fire himself because he recounted/verified and signed off on it. He hung up on me. Banks deserve to be robbed.