Arcade Anarchist recounts a horror story about his paycheck:
This story comes from deep within my retail history.
About 4 or 5
jobs back I was working at a grocery store deli. Cutting cheese and the
like. I was supposed to be paid biweekly, and was working 25ish hour
weeks. The store was going threw lots of remodeling and was getting
ready for a "grand reopening" kinda thing. How you can have a grand
reopening without actually closing I'm not sure.
Now I know that some jobs hold first paychecks for whatever bullshit
reasonings (luckily enough I have yet to have a job do this), so I wasn't
too surprised when I didn't receive one the first payday. So I went
about my work as per usual.
Two weeks later during my lunch break I decided to grab my paycheck and
have the customer service cash it out for me. Once again they didn't
have it. This was kind of ridiculous, it has now been a month. So I ask
them for an advance much lower than I should have gotten but enough to
pay for the stuff I needed like LUNCH.
Two weeks later, no check!
I'm off duty at this point and there was no
one else around. So I ask if they can look threw the entire pile of checks, unlike
the first two times where they only looked threw the deli-worker
section.
I was very surprised to discover the store had another employee who
shared my last name. This is because it's a very uncommon one. I have
never met anyone with the same last name as me that I didn't know to be
family.
But that was beside the point, still no paycheck so I had to
get a small cash paid out.
I was at this job for about 3 months, 1 month after the grand
reclamation of souls.
The last day I was on the job also happened to be
a payday, and as before no paycheck. I was just furious, and ended up
having a long conversation with the store manager. He gave me a cashout
and was going to try and figure out what happened.
Before when I
complained it ended up forever on the bottom of his
to-do list. So he told me to come back when my last payday should be
and hopefully we would settle it by then.
When I came in those two weeks later there was a paycheck there with my
name on it, for not very much at all.
BUT, they refused to give it to me
because I had taken so many cash pay outs.
Once again I had to talk
with the manager who laid me off, about the money they weren't giving
me, for the work I did on the time I coulda been doing something more productive and less stressful... like take up shark wrestling.
He
explained to me what the problem was. When I was being put into the
system by him he had gotten my name, gender, and department wrong.
Okay so I am a 6'5" male, my first and last name together are only 8
letters long. This manager d-bag ass-hole placed me in the computer as
a 5' female named Rachael working in a department the store didn't even
have. I don't know why the computers even needed my height, but it was
wrong. Too many things wrong with this situation.
It took me months after that to get it all cleared up and get what they
owed me. Then about another 2 months later, I received a
letter in the mail from them.
On the front it had something explaining
that it was a check for what they had still owed me. I was still
unemployed and looking for work at the time, so I thought it was great
to be getting a little more money.
A whole 37 cents worth on the check.
Arcade Anarchist
p.s.
Oh, and to anyone who remembers my last post about my current boss,
he went to the hearing at the licensing board, and the arcade gets to
remain in business, so I get to keep my current employment.