No, but the company could. Not receiving your full compensation within a pretty strict window in Oregon is worth triple damages.
This isn’t that different conceptually than receiving stolen goods. He wasn’t responsible for the initial mistake but he knew it was a mistake and spent it as fast as he could.
Per the article “Burke, of Scarborough, pleaded guilty to receiving wrongful credit.” It looks like the specific crime is “Dishonestly retaining a wrongful credit”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theft_Act_1968#Section_24A_-_Dishonestly_retaining_a_wrongful_credit
right I would have said something like I thought it was cause of Brexit, didn’t we leave yet?
In this case I think I’d take BoingBoing’s post with a grain of salt.
The linked article at the Mirror doesn’t say anything about regular direct deposits that I can see, nor does this article at The Scarborough News. Those articles read to me more like it could have been payment for some one-time work done on a contract basis, rather than payment to an employee on payroll.
And while BB says “the director of the company he works for” (which seems like that could be the President or CEO), the two articles don’t say it quite that way, and they read, to me, as though “director” could easily refer to a director of bookkeeping or some such.
Well, that’s my two cents, anyway (or should I say “tuppence” in this case? 
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That’s nothing. About a month ago I dealt with a company that sold integrated circuits, and not ones you could source from Digikey. So I go through their website, click on the “order” button, and then I go looking for the shopping cart to check out. Can’t find it. Where the heck did they hide it? The only order page I could find told me to either call or fax, and who the hell does that? So then I noticed a link near the bottom that said “Order conveniently online!” Great!
I was redirected to a page that had a PDF order form that you could download, fill in, and then fax back.
W… T… F!
So I filled in the PDF, but because Adobe wouldn’t save my filled-in values to PDF (because the order form was DRM’d) and I couldn’t be arsed to take a screenshot, I printed it out, scanned it back in, and then faxed it via some free online fax service.
I have this image in my head of 75 year old Minerva getting the fax and then typing the order in on their internal computer system. Which then gets printed out and handed to 67 year old Frank who pulls the chips from inventory.
but but aren’t corporations people? I give you your “culpable individual”.
If you’ve had to setup and maintain the payroll software the company I work for uses, you might feel like tossing the computer in the bin and doing it by hand is more efficient and accurate.
I really want to see bear sterns, or fanny may, or citibank swinging from the jib in the public square.
Back when I worked in the psychopharmacology labs, we had a shared Dropbox folder with scans of all the senior academics’ signatures on it, due to the frequency with which PDF order forms needed to be “signed” and then emailed to the suppliers.
We also kept the keys to the drug safe in an unlocked drawer…
In English company law, the minimum officers of a company are the director and the company secretary, and in small businesses those are the only two employees you’ll have (often in these cases the company secretary will be a relative of the director).
If the company is big enough to need more than one director, then the big cheese is the “managing director”, though sometimes it’s the “chairman of the board” and the managing director does all the work of running the company while the chairman decides strategy (or something).
From context, this looks like one of those small companies that have only one director, and to whom £40,000 is probably a sizable portion of the company’s officers’ wages (in these parlous times, maybe all of it). So I can see why they and the police would have been keen to get the money back rather than write it off.
And in the vernacular, one would say, “two-penny-worth” or “tupenny-worth”.
Yeah, it’s not like you can even steal money anyways. It’s only a symbol. Like Prince.
I agree. The way most fiat currencies work, they are nominally “owned” by the bank that minted them. They never actually belong to the users.
the “like” I will give you in a few seconds means “this is so horrible and yet so common. the comment generates disgust and perverse delight at the same time”
Looks like this company needs a pilkunnussija to replace the current accountant.
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