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Employees quits, gets paycheck for an extra 8 weeks

Sam Narisi — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:00:36 +0000

With staffing budgets shrinking, here’s a way for companies to save: Stop paying employees who no longer work for you. Sounds like an obvious strategy, but here’s one employer who could’ve used the advice.

Due to a payroll processing error, a bus monitor in Nashville, TN, quit her job yet still received a paycheck for an additional eight weeks.

When asked how it could happen, a spokeswoman for the school district simply said, “It didn’t get communicated to the person in payroll.”

Eventually, someone noticed the error, MSNBC reports. No word on how much money was paid, or if the district will try to recover it.

The worst part: School officials say the district may need to cut up to $15 million from next year’s budget. So, like at most employers these days, every penny counts.

This news comes less than a week after it was a reported a bus driver in the district was caught stealing more than $9,000 worth of gas for her personal car.

Update: School aide resigns because of previous job

Fred Hosier — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:00:08 +0000

Not too long ago we told you the story of Louisa Tuck, a part-time cafeteria and playground aide at an elementary school in Vineland, NJ. Her previous career caused controversy for the school district.

Tuck worked in the adult film industry under the name Crystal Gunns.

When parents and school officials found out, the school board president wanted to fire her.

But lawyers told the district there was no legal reason to end her employment at the school.

Now, Tuck has resigned from her job.

She issued a one-sentence letter of resignation to the school district, stating that she was “resigning in good standing.” The letter didn’t list a reason why she decided to leave the job.

The school superintendent said the district didn’t demand her resignation.

Tuck also works as a supervisor for children’s programs at the Vineland YMCA. The Y’s executive director told the Courier Post she is still employed there.

Tuck’s resignation isn’t official until the school board gets to vote on it at its next scheduled meeting Jan. 21. Tuck could change her mind and rescind the resignation up to that date.

‘My wife wants me to get my job back’

Fred Hosier — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:00:33 +0000

Greg Nance resigned from the Nevada State Board of Education in August. Now he says he wants his job back because his wife wants him to have the prominent position.

It was Nance’s wife who caused commotion in the first place.

He resigned after complaints about how he ignored a policy discussion at a public meeting by cooing with his new 20-year-old wife of 12 days.

When a colleague complained that his wife shouldn’t have been seated with Nance at the board table, he replied, “Bite me.”

“I’ve decided to rescind my resignation on the grounds that my wife wants me to be an elected official in the state of Nevada,” Nance told the Review-Journal.

The governor has officially declared Nance’s former seat to be vacant. It’s too late for Nance to rescind his resignation, and it’s up to the governor to appoint his replacement.