On Monday, 24 October 2016 14:57:16 UTC+1, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:

In the end, I was overpaid by £9000 as they should have halved my pay after 6 months, but cocked it up and I ended up retiring on my 56 birthday anyway.

Wow, they never tried to correct such a large cockup?

No - I think they were scared that I might go to the press and say that BP overworked me and I tried to take my life as a result, so they just let it go.