<prompt> Human: Not sure if this belongs on rpersonalfinance, and I apologize if its long winded. TL;DR at the bottom.It seems like every employer has a different method when paying their employees. The way my company worked is we get paid twice a month, the 1st and the 15th. Not too unusual, but they had a funny method of paying us. If you add up 40 hours per week times 52 weeks for a year, youll end up with 2,080 hours. We got paid 24 times a year twice a month, so our company paid us the same hours every paycheck 2,080 hours 24 pay periods 86.67 hours per paycheck, and the company will adddeduct in later paychecks for overtime or missed time.The problem is, the 86.67-hour paycheck is the basis for every single paycheck. 2016 was a leap year, so there must have been an extra day in there, right? I always assumed the company paid any extra days on the last pay check of the year. The pay was always different anyways. The taxes were calculated different, and we were able to sell back any unused vacation time, and that will show up on our last check. So the last paycheck was usually a bloated.A co-worker friend and I decided to do some digging. 2,080 hours comes out to 260 working days. It turns out that 2014, 2015, and 2016 each had 261 working days. My friend and I check all of our paystubs from the last 3 years theyre all on the payroll website, and it turns out we got paid for 260 days for 2014, 2015, and 2016. We were short one day for the past 3 years, and it turns out 2012 and 2013 also had 261 working days but we couldnt confirm if we were paid for those extra days in those years because our paystubs only went so far back.I originally was going to take this information to the person who runs the payroll at my company. Even though shes a nice lady, she is wishy-washy and can brush things aside. I wanted to make sure this was an issue that would be seen. My friend and I wanted to remain anonymous, so I posted our results to the anonymous company forum. These can be seen by the entire company, even the executives.Well it turns out this DID catch their attention right away. The payroll lady and her boss went into a bit of a freak-out mode. I dont want to go into too much detail, but lets just say that they found out that the anonymous forum is really anonymous.A week later, HR and Payroll had a meeting with all affected employees about 35 hourly employees. The payroll lady explained this is how they have been doing payroll since shes been at the company almost 40 years, and never realized the mistake. They told us that they spoke with their lawyers about this issue, and it turns out they legally only have to pay back for any missing days within the past 2 years. They decided to own up to their mistake; they paid us for the past 5 years of missed time one day for each year, and on top of that, they doubled the amount as an apology for this long overlooked mistake.Since Ive been with the company long enough, I got the full 10 days of extra pay, some people only got 2-8 days. It was still nice of them to pay us back a lot more than they were legally obligated to. I do kind of wish I didnt go anonymous, so I can take all the credit, but honestly the most I would have gotten out of it would be a free lunch and a pat on the back.TL;DR Employer was shorting us about 1 day pay for the past 40 years, spotted the error and company paid affected employees back 10 days worth of pay.Assistant: The payroll lady and her boss went into a bit of a freak-out mode. I dont want to go into too much detail, but lets just say that they found out that the anonymous forum is really anonymous.So I read this, followed by: I do kind of wish I didnt go anonymous, so I can take all the creditWithout compromising your anonymity, could you elaborate on this? It sounded at first like they were seeking retribution against someone for accusing them of wrongdoing, but later you say you wished you took credit. What happened there?Human: Im friendly with the IT guy that created the anonymous forum. We told him it was us who sent the message on the forum. He told us they asked him if he could figure out who sent the message, and he told them he made sure it was totally anonymous. There was nothing he could do to help them.Edit: to answer your question, I wasnt sure if they were upset at us for making them look bad. Since I already sent the message anonymously, I didnt want to give the impression that I was the type of person who would make anonymous complaints about company issues. But I am. They dont need to know that.  <response>: If they were asking IT to track down the identity of who posted the information, it wasnt so they could say thank you. You were damn lucky it couldnt be tracked, and Id keep my mouth shut if I were you. 