A mom told Jeff Bezos that Amazon was underpaying her $90 a month, sparking an internal probe that f

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

found the company was shortchanging some workers

An email sent to Jeff Bezos from an Amazon worker who was on leave triggered an internal investigation that exposed flaws with the company's payroll system, The New York Times reported.

Tara Jones, an Oklahoma Amazon warehouse worker, emailed Bezos in 2020 to tell him she was being underpaid $90 out of $540 she was supposed to get a month, The Times reported. She had a newborn baby at the time, The Times said.

"I'm behind on bills, all because the pay team messed up," Jones wrote in her email. She added, "I'm crying as I write this email," the report said.

The Times interviewed Amazon staff and reviewed internal documents that showed that Amazon subsequently discovered it was shortchanging some employees who were on leave, including medical and disability leave. The problems spanned at least a year and a half, and it potentially affected as many as 179 warehouses.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/a-mom-told-jeff-bezos-that-amazon-was-underpaying-her-90-a-month-sparking-an-internal-probe-that-found-the-company-was-shortchanging-some-workers-a-report-says/ar-AAPVDtg

I imagine she's a part time worker if she's only getting $540 a month.

[Miguelito Loveless]

1. I am sure this was unintentional

[Freddie]

2. I'm a payroll professional

We have a national certification exam (CPP) and are trained to sniff out this exact thing - violation of wage and hour laws. Obviously no one there is doing that. I’ve always worked for honest employers but I’ve caught some minor stuff my husband’s company have tried to pull (like unpaid meetings); they now trust me as an unpaid “advisor” on these issues. Wage theft is a HUGE problem and Republicans of course would like to pretend it doesn’t exist.

[FoxNewsSucks]

3. First, how does anyone live on $540/month???

How many others are being shorted?

It adds up. Like when the character in Superman III played by Richard Pryor hacked the corporate computer to put all of the cent-fractions from company wide payroll on his check and it came out to $80k

Chisel a little, multiplied by thousands and thousands of employees, and it adds up.

The only thing that makes me wonder is that it's a relatively large, noticeable amount. If it were $9, or 90¢ it might not be noticed and I'd really be suspicious of it being widespread

[Midnight Writer]

4. Funny how these "mistakes" always means the employee is getting screwed.

You never hear of a mistake where the employee is getting consistently overpaid.

Same with prices on items in stores. It seems I can hardly shop without getting an item or two that rings up for more than what is marked on the shelf. But I very rarely get charged less than the marked price.

[sop]

6. Rule of mistakes: It's not a "mistake" if it always redounds to the benefit one party.

[Midnight Writer]

8. Similar to Bartcop's Law.

If some one makes a mistake, and they profit from that mistake, expect to see them make that same mistake over and over.

[Hoyt]

5. Looks like Bezos read email and had it corrected. Mistake shouldn't have happened, but was corrected

[comradebillyboy]

7. Yes that's right. But were are not supposed to ever

give Jeff Bezos the benefit of the doubt here at DU.

[Hoyt]

9. Believe me, I know. His $10 Billion pledge for Climate Change was ridiculed. The $973 Million he

paid in taxes from 2014 to 2018 doesn't count because his paper wealth increased significantly, etc.

https://thehill.com/policy/finance/557339-some-billionaires-had-years-where-they-paid-no-taxes-report

[multigraincracker]

10. My union was on it when

it came to pay checks.
Years ago my group worked 129 hours 3 weeks in a row. We were suppose to get paid on Thursday. The payroll computer had never handled more than 100 hours so our paychecks were delayed until Friday. So the union got us 8 hours grievance pay for all 3 of those weeks.