Not really looking for advice or anything... I think I've done what I can. People are sick.
I got my first job a few weeks ago as a table busser. Our paydays are meant to be on the 15th and 30th, and we were meant to be paid for training as well. It's a new restaurant, so my manager wasn't sure how many people they needed. They ended up overhiring and I was laid off two weeks later. I wasn't the only one, so I feel better about that. My manager broke the news to me on Tuesday about getting laid off. I still hadn't been paid yet. His reasoning? The restaurant is located downtown, rent is expensive, and he'll get around to it "maybe next month". This also included my tip money that I made, and he refused to give that to me as well. I live literally right across the street from this place, so I walked back home and told my dad what happened. He was really shocked that my manager would try to pull something like that. He walked over there with me and demanded that I would be paid. My manager got out my check and tip money, claimed that he just "forgot" about it, and that it's all good. That's not consistent with what he told me ten minutes before. He also claimed that the person who laid me off and said that he couldn't pay me was a different person. I opened up the envelope that went with my check, and I noticed that it didn't even have a stamp on it. They definitely weren't planning on sending it out anytime soon. The check was dated for the 16th. I think my manager tried to get away with not paying me, so he could write back to the payment company and tell them some lie like that I wasn't interested in getting the money + keep my tips for himself. I later realized that I still hadn't been paid for the work that I did past the 16th, so I sent another email to my soon-to-be-ex manager and told him that I will take legal action if he doesn't pay me for the work that I did. In my state, you're supposed to give someone their full paycheck within 24 hours of firing them. He was well past that time period, so I could sue him if I wanted to. Not to mention, he was trying to keep my tips that I had already made. We have a tip pool and I doubt he was distributing them evenly. He still had not replied to my email, so I made a sign and protested outside of their restaurant. Several people saw it and asked what happened. To put it simply, they tried to screw a young girl out of her very very first actual paycheck. The wine manager (not the one who fired me) ran outside and yelled at me saying that she was going to call the police and sue me for slander. She also gave me my check right away. The cops eventually drove up and told me that everything I was doing was ok. I still stood out there for the rest of the night because late pay in itself is a crime and sent out an email to all of my coworkers explaining what happened. My dad and I will be moving as soon as his lease ends in September. These assholes are basically my neighbors right now.
tl;dr: My now ex-boss tried to screw me out of my very first paycheck and tips. :banghead:
I've reported them to the BBB, Public Health Inspections, The Department of Labor, and a bunch of news outlets around here. No wonder why their other restaurant has so many one star reviews. I'll be telling the people who own this building about what happened too.
I got my first job a few weeks ago as a table busser. Our paydays are meant to be on the 15th and 30th, and we were meant to be paid for training as well. It's a new restaurant, so my manager wasn't sure how many people they needed. They ended up overhiring and I was laid off two weeks later. I wasn't the only one, so I feel better about that. My manager broke the news to me on Tuesday about getting laid off. I still hadn't been paid yet. His reasoning? The restaurant is located downtown, rent is expensive, and he'll get around to it "maybe next month". This also included my tip money that I made, and he refused to give that to me as well. I live literally right across the street from this place, so I walked back home and told my dad what happened. He was really shocked that my manager would try to pull something like that. He walked over there with me and demanded that I would be paid. My manager got out my check and tip money, claimed that he just "forgot" about it, and that it's all good. That's not consistent with what he told me ten minutes before. He also claimed that the person who laid me off and said that he couldn't pay me was a different person. I opened up the envelope that went with my check, and I noticed that it didn't even have a stamp on it. They definitely weren't planning on sending it out anytime soon. The check was dated for the 16th. I think my manager tried to get away with not paying me, so he could write back to the payment company and tell them some lie like that I wasn't interested in getting the money + keep my tips for himself. I later realized that I still hadn't been paid for the work that I did past the 16th, so I sent another email to my soon-to-be-ex manager and told him that I will take legal action if he doesn't pay me for the work that I did. In my state, you're supposed to give someone their full paycheck within 24 hours of firing them. He was well past that time period, so I could sue him if I wanted to. Not to mention, he was trying to keep my tips that I had already made. We have a tip pool and I doubt he was distributing them evenly. He still had not replied to my email, so I made a sign and protested outside of their restaurant. Several people saw it and asked what happened. To put it simply, they tried to screw a young girl out of her very very first actual paycheck. The wine manager (not the one who fired me) ran outside and yelled at me saying that she was going to call the police and sue me for slander. She also gave me my check right away. The cops eventually drove up and told me that everything I was doing was ok. I still stood out there for the rest of the night because late pay in itself is a crime and sent out an email to all of my coworkers explaining what happened. My dad and I will be moving as soon as his lease ends in September. These assholes are basically my neighbors right now.
tl;dr: My now ex-boss tried to screw me out of my very first paycheck and tips. :banghead:
I've reported them to the BBB, Public Health Inspections, The Department of Labor, and a bunch of news outlets around here. No wonder why their other restaurant has so many one star reviews. I'll be telling the people who own this building about what happened too.
