Boss Lies to Employee to Cheat Them Out of Pay, They Catch on and Get Massive Payout

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    Font - Posted by u/ClubWag 8 hours ago 2 6 Shady Boss lied about my position to keep me from policy-allowed benefit for years. I found out and it changed everything. OC A few years ago, I worked at a big retail company and had for many years. Eventually I went through enough gradschool education to get my license to work at a higher level. Much more pay, more job satisfaction, more responsibilities, fancy title, but the job market was rough. I stayed on with my company to work in a 'floater' pos
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    Font - It was a rough store, folks in my position were robbed and assaulted at gunpoint, neighborhood was very unfriendly, volume at the store was among the highest in the state. Staff turnover was, as you might expect, extreme. Well, after training I wasn't really being scheduled to float to other stores. Once a month, at most. I asked to be scheduled a little more diversely, since most of the stores in my area were much closer to my home and didn't require 4 hours of driving a day. Bossman tol
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    Font - One day Bossman calls me in a panic. He wants to stop my filing the forms. I ask to be floated closer to home, but he won't budge. He needs me at that miserable store. He promises me he'll make me a staff role at that store if I promise to stop faxing those forms. Staff roles are a promotion and usually come with better pay and a few other little conveniences, so I agree. Bossman says there won't be a paybump right away, but that it'll come down the road. That never happened. 2 years late
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    Font - Remember that whole mileage reimbursement policy? Well I kept meticulous track of all my shifts, and there is no statute of limitations baked into the policy, so I started filling out those reimbursement forms to retroactively cover every single shift from the past 2 odd years. I skipped the meal part since I didn't want to go through all that effort of finding receipts. I had a friendly store manager sign off on them, and I started sending them to Accounts Payable directly again. I didn'
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    Font - But I had the email chain from when Bossman said I was never staff, and always a floater. I politely referenced that email chain before letting them know firmly that because I was lied to, our prior agreement didn't' apply and I was fully eligible all along. Corporate policy, as confirmed by HR agreed with me, so I let them know I wasn't returning a single penny. In the end the reimbursements amounted to well over $21,000 USD, and I transitioned into my dream job. I could say that I would
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    Font - TI;dr: Boss lied to manipulate me into commuting 200 miles a day for 2 years without policy allowed reimbursements. I found out and quit for my dream job/career then filed reimbursement retroactively for a total of $21,000 USD
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    Font - Techgruber · 7 hr. ago Not to this degree, but I've had to deal with onsite managers lying to me about wages and benefits as well. Sometimes it was to make their own budgets look good. Other times, it just seemed to be a personal quirk that they had to grind down people under them. Vote Reply Share HammerOfTheHeretics · 7 hr. ago Your employer is an ally of convenience, not a friend. Always look out for your own interests. Vote Reply Share
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    Font - Barflyerdammit · 6 hr. ago I worked at a company where Director level jobs got an extra week of vacation, but weren't eligible for annual bonuses. I argued all the way up to C Level that I should get the extra vacation. They argued that my title was director but wasn't really a director (even though I had the second largest team). So, I asked for the annual bonus instead. They said that Directors didn't get bonuses. 8 weeks later, I was gone after working there for 5 years. No one else in
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    Font - sawskooh · 6 hr. ago Remember: A promotion without a raise IS NOTA PROMOTION. Vote Reply Share •.. zeroingenuity · 4 hr. ago Not entirely true! A promotion without a raise is how your company lets you know they want your resume to look good, so be sure to polish it up and show off your new title. A promotion without a raise is just your current boss increasing the payroll costs of your next boss - who you should start looking for. Vote Reply Share •.. PRMan99 · 3 hr. ago Exactly. This met
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    Font - 02K30C1 · 6 hr. ago Life lesson: when a manager tells you they can't increase your pay now, but it's coming down the road, they're lying. Vote < Reply Share Zoreb1 · 5 hr. ago The only thing coming down the road is a run over possum. 4 Vote Reply Share tanntanatann · 2 hr. ago And you should be grateful for the free food Vote Reply Share
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    Font - b_gumiho · 5 hr. ago Not nearly as egregious as your horrible bossman, but at a previous company I worked at I barely had time to take off. I had banked something stupid like 300 PTO hours before the company switched to a "take what you need (bullshit) policy" with the promise that banked hours would be paid out upon exit of the company (even more bs imho) A c-level had it out for me and forced me out by giving me a 0% annual raise. I fought it all the way to the top but he got his way an
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    Font - Atlas-Scrubbed · 6 hr. ago Yeah this is wage thief. I would report it to the state regulator. 4 Vote Reply Share
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    Font - GuitarZero132 · 6 hr. ago It's incredible how much a long commute just makes a bad job that much worse; nothing like having two hours to think of how shit work is and two hours to think about how shit work was, each and every day. Vote Reply Share
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    Font - SquidMilkVII · 6 hr. ago In the future, there are six words that can protect you in any arrangement before you even start: "Can I have that in writing?" Then hold on to that paper like it's your newborn baby. Vote < Reply Share
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    Font - TVxStrange · 7 hr. ago Congrats on the 20k,but you got hosed over hard for years. Vote Reply Share pyrflie · 4 hr. ago Yep, this is basically a 20K interest free loan OP floated for the company. At least they recovered it though. Vote Reply Share

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