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'You failed to pay me but I'm the bad guy?': Employee fired for complaining about a bounced paycheck from her employer

We all look forward to payday. Whether by direct deposit, check, or cash, depositing the hard-earned money and seeing your banking balance go up is extremely satisfying. You put in the grueling hours of work, so you deserve to finally be compensated. But has your place of employment ever failed to pay you? Or what about this: they gave you a check for the hours you put in, only for the check to bounce when you go to deposit it. Talk about frustrating. 

Well, that's precisely what happened to this OP. The restaurant that she just started working at gave her a bad check. When she went to work the next day and complained to her coworkers, she ended up getting fired at the end of her shift. There gotta be some legal issues involved in that situation. Keep reading to see how the rest of the story played out. 

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