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My husband called me this afternoon and said that his company may not be able to stop his direct deposit before next week's paycheck!!! It could still go into the old account. WHAT THE??? HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO DELETE SOME NUMBERS FROM A COMPUTER, THEY DO THEIR OWN PAYROLL!!!! My payroll dept took out one number and put in the new one, DONE...just like that.
They are going to TRY and if they can, they will cut him just ONE paper check for that week and then process his new direct deposit. This could be REALLY, REALLY BAD! That account is sooooooo in the negative!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 7:38 pm Subject:

That stinks! I would continue to put the pressure on - to stop the direct deposit should be seamless. I can understand setting it up for a new deposit may take a few cycles. To stop my deposit it took one email. It took me a few weeks to get the new routing number on my new account so I missed the cutoff and have had two paper checks but this next one should go in the new account. Is there anyway he can claim fruadulent activity on the old account? I have to believe there is a way to make an immediate stop. If the employee was terminated you can be sure they would have the capability of puttin on a hard stop!

Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 7:47 pm Subject:

Right,when you terminate employment then they issue a paper check for the final one and immediately stop direct deposit. My company does too. I don't know what their asshole problem is! Like me day was going so well anyway before this, UH NOT!!!! Sorry, that's a whole other story!!! Today was like Monday all over again!

Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 8:05 pm Subject:

I think they can do it immediately if they want to, mine did, and then one paper check before the new direst deposit started.

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 4:42 am Subject:

My employer can only stop your direct deposit if you notify them prior to that week's payroll run - we are paid on Thursday, and payroll is run on Wednesday, so if you want to change anything, it has to be done by Tuesday.

bflow...I really hope this works out for you - I know how stressed you must be. Please keep us posted!

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 5:16 am Subject:

I am soooo stressed. It will work out, it has to. I don't know when his pay period ends I just know that checks are given out on next Wednesday. You would think they could do it but?????

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 6:03 am Subject:

Our company can stop them pretty quickly also, but like mentioned, it has to be done before payroll is ran. If he does not get a paycheck until NEXT Wed, I would not know why they could not get it stopped. especially if they do their own payroll. I would have him try to push the issue on it and see what he can get done. Hope it works out for you!

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 7:06 am Subject:

Thanks 2ndband! I told him he needs to tell them that the account is frozen for fraudulent activity and see what they say to that.

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 7:35 am Subject:

Wow I hope you get this taken care of. You are right, they should be able to change it fast in this situation. I know my past jobs would have done that.
Good luck!

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 10:57 am Subject: bflow

Calm, bflow. You're head is going to explode. First of all, I told my employer that fraudulent activity has been on my account and it is closed and direct deposit had to be stopped immediately. It was done that day. Your husband needs to tell them there has been fraudulent activity and the account is closed. They can issue him a paper check. There is no reason they can not do this, as you are stating fraud charges on your bank account. Call him and tell him to do this!

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 11:16 am Subject:

bflow, I really hope this works out. Have your husband do what everyone said and tell them about the fraudulent activity. Let us know what happens. Please relax. It will be ok. BREATHE!!! Smile

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 11:20 am Subject:

bflow, I really hope this works out. Have your husband do what everyone said and tell them about the fraudulent activity. Let us know what happens. Please relax. It will be ok. BREATHE!!! Smile

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 2:18 pm Subject:

It could be because the size of the company. I work for a large company and it took 2 paydates to get mine changed.

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 2:41 pm Subject:

I work for a large corporate hospital and it took the stroke of a few keys to do mine and his company is much smaller, so, they should be able to do it. I think his payroll guy is just a big horses ass!!!!!

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 5:52 pm Subject:

Definitely...I work for the largest retailer in the world and they were able to stop my direct depoist in one key stroke!! I haven't started direct again because I am afraid they would freeze my new account cause of chexsystem like they did Goudah... Sad

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 7:55 pm Subject: bflow

bflow, it CAN be done. He needs to stress the urgency of the matter. Large corporations, small companies, third party payroll companies can all do a change in a matter of minutes. He needs to stress the fraud factor and tell them the account is closed. If they claim they can not "stop" his direct deposit for whatever reason, that's crap. We've done it for our guys and then issued them a paper check. We even had one instance where the direct deposit was already in process and at the urgency of one of our guys, we put a "stop" on the direct deposit amount and issued him a check instead. It can be done. He needs to be persistant about it.

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