‘Right now they owe me over $1000’: Worker leaves corporate for a small family-owned business and faces chaotic pay, no accountability, and quickly misses the structure she thought she didn’t need

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    I'm just making this post looking for some advice I guess. I work at a family owned restaurant in Minneapolis on eat street (like 25+ block stretch of
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    Working for a family owned restaurant- I miss HR and corporate 😭

    Tired woman wearing an apron rests her head on her hand at a cafe table covered with papers and a calculator.
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    restaurants running through downtown) and at a seasonal location they have. We get payed through cashapp. We don't get paystubs so I
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    don't know how much is being taken out for taxes. I know I should ask but I shouldn't NEED to ask for a paystub. We usually get payed late and sometimes my manager will send it in
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    installments (like $267 on one day, $468 a few days later). Right now they owe me over $1000 from the last pay
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    period from the two locations combined. I'm conflicted because the money is really good but if I'm not getting it....
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    Also the owner is such a sleezy guy. I want to expose him and the restaurant so bad but I need a job. He pretends to be an upstanding
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    community member but in reality he's millions in debt because he used the money from a loan
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    The head chef is also a creep- he's mid/late 30s and has made me and all my female coworkers around my age (ranging from like 18-20) feel really uncomfortable
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    and unsafe. We report it every time it happens but upper management doesn't care. Anddd they will literally leave me in the
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    Woman sits with her hand on her forehead among upside-down cafe chairs, beside a tray with cups.
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    restaurant by myself with no cooks or anything but still getting the same pay as my coworkers who have 4 other people on shift with them. ANDDD (last thing \[for
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    now\]) they have me close by myself. Keep in mind this is on eat st on the south side and I'm 5'4 and take the bus
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    Any advice or anything is appreciated
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    automator3000 There's the smart thing to do: find another job, make a report to the labor board. Or there's the Burn It Down version where you name and
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    shame on social media, get in touch with the Strib, Southside Pride, etc. They might not care or want to expose themselves to
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    potential lawsuit by publishing something based on your word alone, or maybe they'll make a whole story of the thing.
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    MasterAnthropy Sadly OP you are in an industry and in a country where you - as a food services worker - are not valued or respected.
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    You could go to the state labor board but there's no guarantee that will be effective (or anonymous - meaning good chance they retaliate and you lose your job).
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    Bosses lile yours are counting on you feeling powerless and sticking around in the hopes. pf getting that back pay.
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    Another avenue might be the IRS if they're not deducting - proper payroll taxes etc. then good chance there are other 'irregularities' that might be of interest to them.
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    I've been in situations like yours before and sadly had to resort to some unsavoury 'fight fire with fire' tactics, but not everyone has the stomach for such a strategy.

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