My paycheck did not deposit. My employer has asked for an additional week to pay me for this week in addition to next weeks wages. He also informed me he will pay me an additional weeks pay if I will stay on. My first phone calls were to the other plumbers at the shop. They didn’t get paid either. They intend to sit it out and see what happens. This is their first time dealing with a negligent employer. I know better. The owner of the shop showed up to work this past Monday with another quad cab GMC Sierra Denali, a 90k truck.
My next two phone calls were to the general contractors I am to meet this morning to go over change orders and arrange heavy equipment for excavating, and inform them I am no longer in my current job and they will need to call the (former) office to get it sorted. I do not replace pipes that transfer shit and other human waste for funsies.
Looks like it’s a three day weekend instead. Time to get my posting numbers up. Monday I’ll be calling other plumbers to see if there’s a spot available elsewhere.
for real. not making payroll is fucking nuclear and his reputation should be torched. definitely collect any documentation/pictures of timecards, save copies of communications with him/others and try to avoid voice conversations… make him put his communication in writing.
I have had two employers pull shit like this. each time I was new to the area, so I didn’t have a context for their shadiness and took them at their word. even when it was literally several years later, i made sure everyone knew how scummy and incompetent they were for the rest of the time I lived in that part of the country.
when I was a known quantity in the community as a reasonable, friendly, highly competent worker and their name came up or they appeared at some function, I would point them out to everyone and tell the story. people love that kind of gossip and of course the way they treated me wasn’t some outlier, but I wanted to make sure their reputation never recovered over time.
people like that need their teeth kicked in.
Genuinely baffling. You’re a capitalist! The system is already rigged in your favor! Fucking with payroll may hurt your employees immediately, but down the line it hurts you the most.
There’s a certain type of bottom tier capitalist I call a “hustler” type - always cooking up a new scheme, moving money around, and taking out loans they can’t afford. As long as they can keep juggling all that, everybody gets paid. The second that changes, all creditors have to get in line and of course they are much more afraid of banks than workers
I’ve been playing coy. Only phone conversation was when I originally called to ask why I hadn’t been paid. Everything else is via text, including his promises to pay me this weeks wages in addition to next weeks and asking to stay on while he sorts it out. Even got a text where he promised to pay me half my check tomorrow.