'PAY ME THE MONEY YOU OWE': Employee gets $1,100 in cash after weeks of neglect on payday, boss pays 4x what she initially owed

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
May 13, 2023 10:00 AM EDT

When your rich boss ghosts you on payday, there are a lot of bigger issues going on. Either your boss is negligent and simply doesn't care about their business (you know, the hobbyist type), or money simply isn't a factor to them– they don't imagine that being paid is the primary reason folks stay employed. We're not out here working for free, people! This goes double when you're a university student. You're already barely surviving on instant ramen and free pizza at parties, so when your paycheck doesn't roll in from your part time job, you're in a huge bind. 

In this case, OP was a struggling Uni student with a part time gig as a server. Their boss didn't care to actually run an ethical business and keep employees around, and after weeks of not being paid, OP had decided they'd had enough. They sent in their resignation to the boss and said they were leaving because they hadn't been paid. The boss promptly asked for an in-person meeting to square up the money they owed. 

OP agreed and went to go get that bag. Instead, when they arrived, the boss was too busy chitchatting with a friend and wasted 20 minutes of OP's time, making them miss their train and late for class. Wasting my time? OP took that personally and decided to get a little petty revenge on their air-headed boss, getting payback (with interest). 

Scroll for the full detailed story on how this boss got what they deserved after bailing on their employee. For more insane tales from retail, check out this penny-pinching Karen with an extreme couponing problem who learns a hard lesson. 

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    Human body - r/pettyrevenge. Posted by u/EvanJenk 13 hours ago Pay me what you owe me or pay the troll toll.
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    Font - When I was a Uni Student, I picked up a second job at Fish and Chip franchise run by a wealthy middle- aged women and owned by her and her radio personality husband which was definitely operating it at a loss. This didn't seem to bother her as it was clearly a hobby for her. Quickly it became obvious that they had a seriously fast staff turnover issue. They had one manager who had been there
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    Font - about a year and no other service staff that had been there more than a few weeks. I already had years of hospitality experience at this point and was quite comfortable the with processes and cash machine system which I brought up multiple times, but I was stuck running food the whole time because the manager had become used to doing everything himself and untrusting after seeing so many staff come and go and clearly just found that easier.
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    Font - I worked here 1 day a week only working 4-hour shifts as their opening hours were just a small window in the evening. This job was a complete waste of my time and I was being treated like a child. I worked here for about 2 months and in this time she had never bothered to pay me and always had an excuse. I had become fed up and sent her my letter of resignation and told her that I was
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    Font - coming before university to pick up the money she had owed me to which she said 'fine'. I also added that I would be on my way to class and didn't have long (the restaurant was next to the train station that I took to Uni) so to please have my money ready in cash (typical for hospitality). I arrive
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    Font - and she's talking to a customer/friend, knew I didn't have long and would surely wrap it up to pay me and set me on my way, but she proceeded to small talk with this women for 10 minutes while I politely waved and made eye contact gesturing at my wrist watch implying I had to go to which she held up a finger to me multiple times implying 'just a moment'. This went on for an I decided that she
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    Font - unreasonable amount of time and she was clearly power tripping and being rude, so after missing my train I said in my outdoor voice 'PAY ME THE MONEY YOU OWE ME OR IM CALLING THE POLICE'. She scoffed and took me behind the counter and asked the manager to provide her with the 'red binder', to which he replied, 'what red binder?'.
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    Font - 'You know, the one with everyone's shifts and payroll stuff.' 'I've never heard or seen of such a binder' said her manager, They argue back and forth for a minute or so, I don't believe that this binder even exists at this point. She turns to me and says, 'what do I owe you, how many hours did you work?'
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    Font - I say 'I worked 51 hours' (I had probably worked around 9-15 hours). To my surprise she then proceeds to unlock her cash box in her office and hand me $1,100 and throw it into and envelope for me, I thank her and powerwalk out of there before the manager who had walked away at this point caught wind of my lie. I couldn't believe it, this lady had just paid me 4x what I was owed.
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    Font - I was probably only owed around $250 which if she had any organisational skills would have paid me already, and she would have known the amount if she made any effort to keep track of her employee's rosters. TL;DR be rude, entitled, make me miss my train and don't pay me what you owe me? You pay the troll toll.
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    Font - CoderJoe1 +4 13 hr. ago . Nice odd number to give it that sense of specific reality. 4271 EvanJenk OP 13 hr. ago Reply Share
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    Human body - Salt-Operation 14 hr. ago Good on you for pulling a fast one. That monster of a boss sounds like a nightmare!
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    Font - EvanJenk OP 10 hr. ago - Only in the moment, the payout helped me feel better about my time wasted.
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    Font - TheHobbyWaitress 12 hr. ago Nice. I'd call that an A hole Tax & you surely deserved it. 4 80 EvanJenk OP +2. Thank you Reply Share 11 hr. ago
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    Font - fiddlerisshit +1 12 hr. ago 1.1 k? She wouldn't bend down to pick it up if it dropped by the roadside. To 1% that is just money to buy a pair of slippers with. 4 22 ↓ EvanJenk OP A Reply Share 10 hr. ago
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    Hair - Priapraxis 5 hr. ago CONFOUND YOUR LOUSY TOLL, TROLL.
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