[QUOTE=sosafan]
Originally Posted by SWG
If you tell them and they don't care, it's not your problem.
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The earlier example that I mentioned was another company. I guess that
wasn't clear.
Thanks everyone for the discussion. (Particularly to gleff for the laugh.)
I decided to point out the excess in an email to them. (We'll see what happens, if anything.) But I would feel pretty justified to let it slide. I
have a nagging worry that they'll take away both the excess bonus and
the bonus in the first place.
Several people have used analogies, and I guess the point to me now is the amount, and not the absolute principal. If I found $50 on the street (and I
have), I think that turning it in would be unrealistic. But a larger amount
should be turned in. Of course, I don't know where to draw the line. A
young man got quite a bit of attention when he found a bag in my
community with $9,000 and turned it in.
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showth...hreadid=368149
It had fallen off a Brinks truck!
My friend saw a kid rob the pizza guy in college. he told the cops, the cop wrote his name in a book too, and later, on at least two occasions, he was considered suspect in similar thefts because said cop had written him in the wrong book.
shouldnt have brought attention to himself, perhaps.
perhaps not. They never caught the guy and the pizza guy (we found we knew him, it later turned out) did not have to pony up the missing money, which turned out to only be $10.
If you draw attention to yourself on this one, they may watch your account. Otherwise it is highly unlikely and I have not seen any airline take away such miles before. It is petty to them, and yet, huge to you!
I woudl probably return the $9grand too, but hey, if it is brinks, then it is insured. But if it iwere the Mob's money, I would DEFINIETLY return it!! they will find me if I do not.
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