<prompt> Human: Wasnt sure if this fit exactly here, but since it centers on a workfinancialethical situation, I thought PF was more suited that relationships. I 40s m work in a small private practice adjacent to the medical field. I am considered an employee and get paid on what I bring in. My boss 40s m, owner of the practice and I have a solid and trusting relationship, to the extent that he and I are planning to open a branch office that I will run and receive some profit sharing. Given our plans to grow together, I am now in a bind about a current situation.Due to an truly honest error on my bosss behalf, he had to refund about 10,000 US to patients due to a billing oversight. The problem originated 3 years ago and weve been billing a small number of patients improperly since then, unbeknownst to anyone, including our billing coordinator who is very thorough about these things. Once he caught wind of this a few weeks ago, he immediately corrected it and refunded the clients - all good faith business practice.I get paid lets say 50 of what I bring in, i.e., on insurance reimbursements. If insurance pays us 5000 for the month, my paycheck is 2500. So if we enter the current situation into this, we had to refund approx 2000 to my patients. This means that in theory, my paychecks over the past year or so were based on erroneous amounts. In other words, considering the error, I was overpaid by 1000 over the course of 2 years.Now, he is saying that we there are a few others affected too are not obligated to pay him back, BUT if we wanted to, he would accept the money. Hes taking responsibility for the error and has made corrections to ensure that it wont happen again. Again he made it clear that we owe him nothing, yet his wording strongly implies he feels that paying him back is the right thing to do - for example your paycheck is based on what comes in and what goes out refunds, takebacks, adjustments regardless of the situation. Yet Im conflicted because I we had absolutely nothing to do with this error and now Im almost expected to pay him back 1000. Its a lot of money, but Im in a financially stable place where I can take this hit, but it still sets me back for my home down payment. Part of me feels that this was his mistake and it should be chalked up as business expense. On one hand, If I dont pay him back, I look like a miser and could potentially add ill will to our relationship, especially since were about to start a new venture together. On the other hand, hes been quite generous all along, and in theory, as a team, we win together and also lose together. Originally, I was thinking about meeting halfway and offering to pay back 500 or 600 of the 1000 that I dont owe him but that he likely expects. But then I thought that the extra 400 or 500 may not be worth the potential strain on our relationship - again knowing hes been generous with other things. Has anyone been in a similar situation before? Any thoughts or recommendations? Not looking for legal advice, please. TL:DR Due to an error by my boss, he overpaid me in the last few years, and is now implying that paying him back is the right thing to do. Im torn.  <response>: If you want to compromise, pay him back for 2016. Any errors in 2015 are the fault of poor auditing which should have happened quarterly or at least annually, but 2016 is still in the realm of honest unavoidable mistake. 