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What? You Want Your Tip Back?

By John Mesirow

If you do a good job, you should get a good tip, right? Let's say you work for Notre Dame University's catering department, and you earn a tip of $29.87. Such was the case for Sara Gaspar. As luck would have it (good luck, initially - now, not so good), per The South Bend Tribune:

...because of a "mistake," court documents say a total of $29,387 was deposited into her account.

Shazam! Uh-oh. I think he said "court documents." He did. Seems the school wants its money back (in addition to getting its pound of flesh - they fired her too). There's just one small problem...

Gaspar ... says she tried to alert the university about the large sum that showed up in her bank account, but that when her messages [at least 3 of them] weren't returned, she decided it was meant to be.

"I guess because it was there and I was in a bad situation, I went out and spent it [on medical bills and a 2002 Jetta]," Gaspar said when reached by phone.

You can read more (a fair amount) here.

Full post as published by Legal Juice on September 18, 2009 (boomark / email).