'I got email from HR about 10% pay rise – and was baffled when I opened it'
An employee who noticed an odd detail on their payslip has been left outraged by their reply
An employee at an unnamed company has been left outraged by a HR response when informing them of a payslip error.
The Reddit user took to the site to complain about the email response they received, with the stunned member of staff reeling from a pay raise problem.
Sharing a screenshot of the email received regarding their new hourly rate, user Sabrine_Heester_2001 revealed: "I emailed HR after noticing a pay error. This was their response."
Attached was a reply which has infuriated not just the original poster but other members of Reddit in a post which has received over 95,000 upvotes and thousands of comments.
The email reads: "I am writing to confirm that your 10% pay raise was applied to your pay during the work period from August 11 to August 25. Your new hourly rate is $26.38 (£19.94).
"Below is a breakdown of the calculation: Previous Pay Rate: $26.35. New Pay Rate Calculation: $26.35 x (1 + 0.10/100) = $26.38. If you have any further questions or need further clarification, please don't hesitate to reach out."
But memebrs of the public were enraged by the pay raise and questioned whether the maths used by the HR team was up to scratch. One wrote: "No matter how bad you are at math, how can someone that (presumably) graduated primary school see '10% of 26.35 is 0.03' and not think something's wrong, jeez."
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Another fumed: "So HR is either wildly incompetent at math, or they know damn well what they're doing and hope it's the employees who are wildly math-illiterate." They added the original poster should "get in touch with finance dept. if possible, maybe they could teach HR a bit of 3rd-grade math."
A third user added: "Send them a link to a basic math lesson on Kahn academy along with CC’ing their supervisor. Making the mistake entering it is one thing, but doubling down on it…I wouldn’t want them anywhere near my paychecks."
Others have called into question the previous payslips of the original poster, with one adding: "I’d be concerned about all my paychecks previous to this one."
