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scorpiobabes (2021) ranked 3 out of 39 in philadelphia eagles

5 years ago

Philadelphia Eagles staff has reportedly made an accounting error and paid Brian Westbrook a roster bonus twice. Now they're filing a grievance because he hasn't paid the money back yet. I don't know how long they gave him and yes, I do believe he needs to give the money back, but my question is WHAT IS THE ACCOUNTING DEPARTMENT SMOKING? Honestly, it seems more and more, people are making expensive stupid errors that would get most people fired and the wrong party is getting slammed--in this case, the Eagles made the error and should have kept this mess under their hats and privately pushed for a return of the money, rather than pull a T.O. and air their dirty laundry. What do you think?

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MKWillis (184) response was accepted on 5/6/2007.

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kgwat70 (10233) ranked 1 out of 39 in philadelphia eagles

5 years ago

It was quite shocking that their accounting department made an error in the roster bonus as their organization is always on top of things and do not make these kinds of mistakes often. I am sure Westbrook does not mind that they made this kind of mistake but if he is an honest person he would return the money to the team and not keep it. That would save a lot of time and headaches for everyone. Who knows what happened but it did and hopefully it gets resolved soon? Someone is probably going to get in trouble for this mistake.

scorpiobabes (2021) ranked 3 out of 39 in philadelphia eagles	5 years ago
Westbrook knows about the money (I mean, how could you miss $6 million deposited into your account) but apparently while claiming to return the money, e has not yet done so in a fast enough time frame for the Eagles. This reminds me of the tight-fistedness of Leonard Tose, the former owner.

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MKWillis (184)

5 years ago

The Eagles should have handled this quietly (it's not a public matter, after all...it's a stupid error by their accounting department)...and Westbrook should have brought it to their attention immediately and given the money back right away (he had to have known that a mistake was made and that the money was not his)...but I guess that's what would have happened in a more perfect, more professional world.

scorpiobabes (2021) ranked 3 out of 39 in philadelphia eagles

5 years ago

I agree--it was the Eagles mistake first and it should (and could) have been handled quietly, but we don't know how long ago this happened...it probably did during Reid's time away from the team. If so, then it did go on too long; if it was only like a week and say TO, yeah, then the Eagles were right in doing it that way. Since I haven't heard anything since then (nor in the regular news, just on AOL), I think it might have been taken care of.

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