Company Messes With Delivery Driver's Tips, Pro Revenge Ensues

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mattstaff
Nov 21, 2021 9:00 PM EST

It's all about knowing your labor laws. There are a terrible amount of companies out there in the wild that are preying on various employees that haven't read up on their labor laws. Knowledge is power, man. 

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    Font - r/ProRevenge + Join u/ethanralphisfat · 1d 8 7 5 3. Take my tips and pay me below minimum wage. See what happens! Apologize in advance for the walls of text, but this has layers. So this all happened years ago when I was still in college. I worked for a delivery joint. The company seemed super cool, because they provided vehicles instead of forcing you to beat down your own car. Huge perk right? Well in this case no. The owner of the company used this as justification to take a percentage
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    Font - Now this was a problem for two reasons. Number one, in the state I was in, employee tips belonged to the employee unless part of an employee tip pooling agreement. This was plain as day on the Department of labor website. So that 20% gouge was already crossing a line. Number two, you cannot just hand wave and or force employees to say they made above minimum wage. So pretty shady right? Now most people would see this situation and run for the hills (which probably explained the delivery d
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    Font - Here and there I would make comments to the managers about the legality of their practices, and was often told "Our lawyers said it's ok, so it's ok" (would love to meet these lawyers one day). So I patiently waited for a year, documenting every red cent they took from me and encouraging the other drivers to do so. Every new driver that came through that door got a little pow wow with me, and I would give them the skinny. Unfortunately my plan must have leaked because sooner than later th
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    Font - So I began collecting the names of current and previous employees whom had been screwed over by the company and collected their documented data then sent it off to the department of labor. At the end of the day it took a couple months, but the company was eventually required to pay a decent chunk of change to all parties and a pretty hefty fine on top. OverallI | believe it came out to a little under 100k. I wasn't done though. See those shady little documents they had us sign claiming we
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    Font - All together it ended up costing this dumb little delivery joint a ton of money just to stay open, all cause they wanted 20 percent of their drivers tips. The moral here is this. Know your labor laws, it's degenerates like these whom profit off the ignorance or fear of a work force. The more you know about your rights, the less idiots like these willI be able to survive in the wild. Thanks for coming to my ted talk.
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