Just thought I’d share a little email exchange with you from a few minutes ago…

Subject: Overpayment fortnight ending 28.03.08

Good afternoon James

It has recently come to our attention that there was an error made when processing your re-appointment paperwork for the placement 01.01.08 – 30.06.08.

Your placement was incorrectly incremented to HEW503, however your annual increment date is July each year (not January).

Your placement has been amended to the correct level HEW502 from 1 January 2008. There will be a correction made in the pay of the fortnight ending 28.03.08.

I apologise for this error, if you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact me.

Kind regards,

PooBum.

PooBum Huffletots*

Human Resources Officer
Faculty of Engineering, Physical Sciences and Architecture
Hawken Engineering Building (50) |The University of Queensland |Brisbane Qld 4072 Australia

Phone: 3365 0000 | Fax: 3365 0000 | Email: pb.huffletots@uq.edu.au

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My response:

Is it a good afternoon when someone informs you that they’ll be docking your pay for a few hundred bucks?

How much will I be re-donating to the cause?

Good on whoever stuffed that up, much appreciated…

James

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Gotta love ‘em, I mean they’ve only paid me 5 times this year… I think if the lady could do the HR equivalent of spitting in my burger she’d be doing it right about… now.

p.s. In case it’s not bleedingly obvious, I have changed the name of Julia Hetherington to PooBum Huffletots to preserve her identity ;)