Today, I pointed out to my manager that I haven’t been paid for my first month's work. They told me my paperwork had been misplaced, so I hadn’t actually been hired yet. So I just worked a full month for free. Oh, and apparently they’re not legally obligated to pay me, so I’m not getting paid. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, according to my tax bill, I’ve been employed by a company I interviewed for over a year ago. They apparently hired me but forgot to tell me, then they also forgot to fire me for not turning up, so I’m somehow their unpaid employee and yet owe taxes for wages I’ve never been paid. FML
Today, my boss told me I was fired 3 weeks ago because there's no money to pay me, meaning that I worked the last three weeks for free. FML
Today, after not receiving my paycheck for over a month, I confronted my boss about it. His response? "You still work here?" FML
Today, I'm working in China and I had to explain to my boss that no, it's not okay to not pay me for 3 months. FML
Today, my work informed me that they didn't process my pay in time, so I won't get paid until the end of next month. I have less than £10 to last me until then. FML
Today, my job decided not to pay me. I talked to HR about it and they told me it will be “very hard” to fix the issue of my missing paycheck. FML
Today, marks the third month that I have not received payment for work I did on web pages for a hospital chain. They owe me over $1,000. It will cost twice that to get a lawyer to force them to pay me what I'm owed. FML
Today, my manager did that thing where he gave me a performance-based bonus last month, but deducted the bonus from this months pay. He didn’t even try to hide it, it said in plain English "Amount deducted for previous performance bonus." FML
Today, I was fired from a job I didn't have. The manager in charge of calling me to tell me if I got the job never called, and never called me back when I left messages. The only time he called me was to fire me for not coming to orientation, which, by the way, he never called to tell me about. FML
Today, I returned to work after taking two days off to find I'd been fired. Why? For not being at work on those two days. Everything was agreed in writing, all trace of which has mysteriously vanished. I can't work until HR sorts it out, and nobody can tell me how long that'll take. FML
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Top comments
Rodville 28
Talk to the labor board at the very least and a lawyer if at all possible.
elguito 22
Get out now they are just going to keep screwing you over. If you do manage to get them to pay you i can almost guarantee that they will try to find a way to fire you and make it look like it was your fault.
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Rodville 28
Talk to the labor board at the very least and a lawyer if at all possible.
EmDizzle2007 28
things they should've done instead of posting about it online
timinator5000 28
do you have anything written from them saying you're hired? or when you were supposed to start?
RichardPencil 32
Congrats on completing your internship.
elguito 22
Get out now they are just going to keep screwing you over. If you do manage to get them to pay you i can almost guarantee that they will try to find a way to fire you and make it look like it was your fault.
Susan Yee 9
The whole month they didn’t say anything? Is that even legal?
Kristoffer 35
possibly in jurisdictions outside the USA, the post doesn't show a location that I can see.
zeeba_neighba 10
In Europe most employees are paid once a month.
Ksweety_fml 27
Quit, ASAP!
jriley4u 17
So they just let random people come in and work without telling them they’re hired? I don’t think so. I’d call the labor board.
Mungolikecandy 19
If you have a letter or email from them stating that you were hired (never do anything like taking a job offer without it being in writing) then they would very likely be acting fraudulently by not telling you you were not actually hired and taking services from you in respect of your work.
ViviMage 40
My last 2 jobs were obligated to pay me even if it was something silly like less than 15 minutes off the clock duty and for whatever reason I had to clock out and back in. At my current job if I'm sitting after my shift decompressing and someone asks me a question because I'm still there, I log back in because it's work related. They are obligated to pay you for work related functions, and chances are orientation and training and all that couldn't even begin UNLESS they found your papers to prove you were in fact hired. You shouldn't have been let in the door the first day unless the papers were in order. That's how all my jobs worked out. My current job pulled a few people from new hire training stating "we didn't get your drug test/background check back yet, so we have to get you into the next class", or "there was a problem and we are not hiring you after all." The offer letter was "contingent on passing background checks, previous employment checks, and drug screen." Keep all your time stamps of when you clocked in and left, and if you can take log of what you did at work as job duties, and take them to a lawyer. Oh yeah, and figure out when your probation period ends and health insurance coverage and 401k matches start. The day you started working or the day they got the paperwork straightened out? Also points to bring to the lawyer. And do you want to work for a company this disorganized? It may be a sign not to stay.
Kristoffer 35
in the US, they definitely are obligated to pay you. they knew you were working and they didn't stop you. thus they have to pay you