'He wrote 'thief' on my check': Ex-employee gets paid 80% of his dues before filing a wage theft report against his employer, sees his boss's true colors on his settlement check

Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor

Mar 10, 2024 1:00 PM EDT

After every exhausting week of work, weary employees uncontrollably count their hours and calculate their expected pay. We can't help it. The shining beacon of hope of every working citizen is their bi-weekly paystub, rewarding their hours of indentured servitude to 'The Man'. But when you get that glimmering check and the total balance comes up short, your ever-wavering shift resilience fades.

Did you calculate your hours wrong?

Most likely, if you're anything like the guy in our next story, you have a gaslighting manager who's shorting you hours and thieving your hard-earned wages before they ever make it to your wallet. Debuting in a recently uncovered story on a popular Reddit forum, this former employee laid down the law for his former employer and took his thievery to court. But even after months in limbo, waiting for his ample payout and settlement check, this buffoon of a boss decided to take one last childish jab at the whistleblower, digging his own grave far deeper than he could ever imagine….