<prompt> Human: Im sure this sub gets plenty stories like this, but its the first time something like this has happened to me in the work place so I thought I would share my experience. Its nothing crazy so Im gonna try to keep it as short as possible.At my work we share a tip pool weekly divvy it amongst the employees based on how many hours worked within that 7 day period. This week, one of my coworkers asked if I could cover his shift for him. Me, starting my journey towards becoming more financially stable, agreed to cover his shift. So, in this 7-day period I worked one more day than normally. Might I also point out, it is written how much tips were in a hourly wage Thr this week, so all of the math to how the amount was calculated is already their. When I received my tips, it seemed as if I got approximately the amount I would get if I worked my normal hours, but on the paper it showed the amount of hours I worked right there. I was confused because our boss is very organized and very good at keeping track of our hours. I went back to check the time sheet for the amount of hours I worked, thinking maybe there mustve been a mistake and it said I worked 8 hours more than what the other sheet had said. I immediately went to my boss and asked him if he knew that I covered one of our coworkers shifts during the weekend and he replied, Yes I did, I put all of the hours in. Then, I was even more confused. I asked if he could kindly just double check for me, so he did. When he double checked he saw that working that extra day had put me into OT, so when putting in everyones hours for the tip period, he had accidentally overlooked it as it had been in another column. He then apologized for the mistake, calculated the amount in which I missed out on and gave me the remainder of what I was owed. I wanted to share my experience as a friendly reminder to make sure youre getting paid for all of the hours you are working! I hear lots of stories of people finding out that theyre getting shorted on hours. Whether that be on accident, like in my case or on purpose, like so many other cases are, so make sure to check your hours to ensure youre not the one getting shorted. I hope that this can help a few people out.TL;DR Get weekly tips based on hours worked. Covered a shift for a coworker and those hours went unaccounted for. Got compensated for those hours after politely asking boss to double check the hours worked. Thanks for reading and have a great day everyone!EDIT: Wow, thanks everyone for sharing your stories and reminding everyone on why making sure youre getting whats owed to you and speaking up in the workplace is very important, cause no one else will do it for you!EDIT 2: I didnt think this post would get any buzz, but sense it gained a little traction I wanna share another short funny story my friend told me about himself, that is very relevant.My friend used to work at Jack in the Box for about a month or so during his senior year of high school. The second week of him working there, he noticed that the hours worked, on his paycheck were different from his time sheet. He thought that suspicious, so he checked all of the hours he worked since working there, went home that night and calculated his hours worked, to how much hes been paid. After adding everything up, he indeed was getting shorted on hours, and they owe him about 80 worth of hourly wages, already in his short stint of working there. My friend is a very reserved person, keeps to himself and doesnt talk to much, so he didnt know how to go about bringing it up. He was nervous. But, he also wasnt about to miss out on 80 he was owed! So, he did the only other thing he could think of... he decided it best to, on his next day of work right before closing, take the 80 out of the till and just never return to the Jack in the Box again. Well, it seems someone found out the next morning that 80 was missing from the till and was not happy about it, so they checked the cameras. They saw my friend take the money and IMMEDIATELY call the police. They go to HIS SCHOOL and arrest him for theft or something of the sort and he had to serve 3 days in jail because he was 18. To add insult to injury they also made him pay 80 in restitution.  <response>: Thats not extra. Thats your pay for the week given the hours worked. 