Boss conceals half of employee’s $30K salary from IRS, leaving worker to deal with tax bills on hidden earnings: ‘All of my coworkers have noticed the exact same issues’

One of the undeniably awesomest parts of adult life is dealing with finances. There's a unique delight that comes from tracking expenses, saving receipts, and trying to remember if that coffee run counts as a business expense. But the best of these are taxes the bureaucratic nightmare that can, hands down, make us put our hands up and surrender. 

Most of us are really just trying our best to keep our financial ships floating. And that is hard enough as it is. But as we all know, life's always there with its fun little pranks that feel like you just got hit by a defensive tackle.

In today's story life sent our hard-working employee a special soul, one of those innovative employers who look at this already complex financial soup and think, "You know what this needs? A touch of scam and a dash of theft" 

The victim of this creative accounting is a construction worker who thought he was signing up to build houses, not participate in their boss's audacious attempt to reinvent math.

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