'[The worker] got a pay stub for about 15 paychecks': Manager figures out executives are cheating workers on overtime, gets it all back

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    Hand - ONEELIDHED DOLLATIS "[The worker] got a pay stub for about 15 paychecks" ALE
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    Font - Crappy Bosses FAFO I had a job working warehouse/delivery for a store. The entire "corporate structure" was built on treating the people below you like so, and that was passed down through every level. Managers would just bark orders and O you out for any reason they could think of. They paid about 25¢ over minimum wage, and the bosses drove BMWs and Mercedes. The Big Boss lived in an $8M house.
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    Font - Our store was the freight hub for four others in the little chain, so we got to know the drivers from the other stores well as they were always coming to load freight or drop stuff off. One day, we're sitting with two drivers from another store, and "Buddy" remarks that he and his partner are working over 60 hours a week. I say he must be doing okay with all that overtime pay. He says they're not getting OT, just paid a straight time rate. I ask him if he signed an averaging agreement, he
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    Font - confirms all this, and they've been doing it for months. He'd asked his manager about OT, and been told that straight pay was just the way it worked. I tell them that's illegal, and urge them to take it to labour relations. They're reluctant to rock the boat, figuring they'll be fired. So I drop it. (We never got any overtime. Our warehouse was busy, our store was not.) A couple months later, they're in again, and Buddy's partner tells us he and his girlfriend are moving back east, and he
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    Font - A few weeks go by, and when I come in one day, there are expensive boss cars parked all along the loading dock. My workmate says something big is going down. All the managers have been summoned, and are inside with a bunch of people in suits. So we wander upstairs to see what's going on. The company bookkeeper had an office in our store, and handled all the payroll. He was a Chinese immigrant, nice guy. The bosses were trying to pin this on him, saying he didn't speak English very well (w
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    Font - I see Buddy (with a new partner) a few weeks later. He's got a pay stub for about fifteen paychecks' worth of earnings. Company got caught for all the overtime pay and a pretty substantial fine on top of that. Added bonus: the second- in-command had driven over a nail when he parked his silver BMW on the loading dock and had a flat when he came out of the store. He opened his trunk and called me over and said, "Change that for me." I told him sorry, that's not my job and if I hurt myself,
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    Font - nottiday Fantastic job OP! Something similar happened to my wife & her coworkers in a VERY busy spa in a nice resort. They never recieved holiday pay, even tho they worked all holidays. Christmas day included. We ended up moving to a different area of the province, so she filed a complaint w/Labor Standards. We moved & forgot all about it. About two months later my wife recieved a huge paycheck for all the unpaid holiday pay. My wife's phone was blowing up for days w/all her ex-coworkers
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    Font - NotHis RealName Labor laws can be complicated but NO ONE should fo up OT this badly. Reply Share 365 ... altonbrownfan It's not fug it up if that's the end result you are looking to accomplish Reply Share 109
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    Font - Randomorph While this is a satisfying story, the worst part is that the bosses won't face any criminal charges for this theft. If you stole 15 paychecks from the company, you'd be doing hard time. They steal 15 paychecks from numerous people, and all they get is a slap on the wrist fine, and a "please pay everyone what you should have paid in the first place, if you don't mind." What a joke. 595 Reply Share ●●●
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    Font - octalanax Wage theft is never properly prosecuted. Those execs should be in jail. Having their company pay back-pay and fines simply makes lawbreaking a profitable part of doing business. 55+ Reply Share
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    Rectangle - SenioritaStuffnStuff · 1 yr. ago FAFO my brain not getting most acronyms "Ah yes. The bosses are Fong A Fat Orca" Reply Share 42 onaplinth OP. 1 yr. ago F Od around and found out. 25 Reply Share

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