Employee Investigates Unfair Policy, Gets Coworkers Back Pay

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Eric Lund
Jun 8, 2020 5:00 PM EDT

When this guy looked into the legality of this company's policy, he stuck to his principles and got everyone money they were owed. For some other satisfying work revenge stories, here's a boss's "take prank callers seriously" policy backfiring as well as a boss that got locked out of his own home.

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    Text - O r/ProRevenge · Posted by u/Kingsmanname 4 hours ago Got everyone paid out, and one of my proudest moments. So, I used to work for a power line clearing tree service. We did lots and lots of hours of chainsawing all tree species underneath and near powerline during winter and summer and herbicide work in spring. It was grueling work in northern mn with bugs and winters. Especially when you had to walk through feet of snow all day long.
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    Text - Anyways, I was a Foreman at 20 years old running 8 man crews having to do all the training for new hires. I was pretty confident in the work, even clearing the big trees next to 200k voltage lines. It was part of my forestry and wildfire program to be experienced doing these things. The place I worked at had a really high turnover and was run pretty poorly. All their vehicles had over 240k on them, the machines were always breaking down, and you were away from home 5 days a week for $15 a
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    Text - We would be forced to show up to our job sites at the start of the week by 7am to be ready for the day regardless of where the site was. That could mean getting up at 1 or 2am, driving the hour drive to the shop, spend an hour getting gear together, then driving 3-4 hours to get to your site by 7. And all of that time was unpaid until we got to the site. This pissed almost everyone off. Especially us young guys because they stuck us the furthest away. After doing some searching, I found s
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    Text - After a month of nothing, me and one of my other coworkers decided to get ahold of the CEO of the company (100-300 person company) and mention what we found in the DoL information. He listened to what we said and said he'd have to talk to his corporate lawyer to figure it out since it must be legal not to pay us because if it was, his lawyer would've never allowed it. So fast forward to our next meeting, and as you'd expect, he said he didnt need to pay us out. Me being me, I didnt back d
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    Text - and said he'd need to have one more conversation with his council to see for sure. Upon our next meeting, he came back at us with an envelope, inside was a contract and a $1000 check to not bring this up. My coworker and I were pissed and said this needed to be rectified for the whole company and that if it wasnt, we'd be forced to make the call. He was taken back but stuck to his guns. With his choice made, I made the call and began to open a case. The state said that through a loophole,
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    Text - I quit shortly after as I had another job lined up and forgot all about the situation. Fast forward 6 months and I recieved a letter in the mail from my old company. I opened it up and to my shock it was a $800 check. (This way as big as it was because statute of limitations goes back 2 years.) I called several other people I knew from the company and asked if they had received money, and they all had. And some of their checks were bigger than mine! So in the end, my own research "bested"
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