We have a national certification exam (CPP) and are trained to sniff out this exact thing - violation of wage and hour laws. Obviously no one there is doing that. I’ve always worked for honest employers but I’ve caught some minor stuff my husband’s company have tried to pull (like unpaid meetings); they now trust me as an unpaid “advisor” on these issues. Wage theft is a HUGE problem and Republicans of course would like to pretend it doesn’t exist.

How many others are being shorted?

It adds up. Like when the character in Superman III played by Richard Pryor hacked the corporate computer to put all of the cent-fractions from company wide payroll on his check and it came out to $80k

Chisel a little, multiplied by thousands and thousands of employees, and it adds up.

The only thing that makes me wonder is that it's a relatively large, noticeable amount. If it were $9, or 90¢ it might not be noticed and I'd really be suspicious of it being widespread

You never hear of a mistake where the employee is getting consistently overpaid.

Same with prices on items in stores. It seems I can hardly shop without getting an item or two that rings up for more than what is marked on the shelf. But I very rarely get charged less than the marked price.

If some one makes a mistake, and they profit from that mistake, expect to see them make that same mistake over and over.

give Jeff Bezos the benefit of the doubt here at DU.

paid in taxes from 2014 to 2018 doesn't count because his paper wealth increased significantly, etc.

https://thehill.com/policy/finance/557339-some-billionaires-had-years-where-they-paid-no-taxes-report

it came to pay checks.
Years ago my group worked 129 hours 3 weeks in a row. We were suppose to get paid on Thursday. The payroll computer had never handled more than 100 hours so our paychecks were delayed until Friday. So the union got us 8 hours grievance pay for all 3 of those weeks.