A few summers ago I worked (very briefly) for a telemarketing company. I took the job because I needed the money but quit after a few months because I found something better.
At this job we got paid every second Friday. On my third payday I logged into my bank account and saw my check hadn't been deposited...hmmm....
Slightly peeved, I go to work to shockingly find that NO ONE got their paycheck! Not the managers, not the supervisors, not any of the agents, no one. So the call center manager called a meeting and told us the problem was with the company who processes payroll and they are trying to get it fixed as soon as possible.
By the end of the day Friday, we still had no paychecks and most of us were pretty irritated by now (as a general rule, fucking with people's paychecks in any way is NOT a good idea!).
Saturday and Sunday go by and still no paychecks. We go in on monday and the manager has another meeting and gives us several reasons why we still don't have our money:
1) Certain people at our corporate level were off on the weekend
2) Certain people at the payroll company were off on the weekend
3) They still haven't determined why the checks were not deposited in the first place.
At this point people are seriously pissed. Several of them have already had their accounts overdrafted due to payments that were scheduled to come out after payday. Others, while not overdrafted, are still unable to buy food or other necessities because they have not been paid. Our manager told us the company would take care of the overdrafts if we filled out the proper forms (yay, more paperwork we have to do because of a fuck up that wasn't our fault!).
By Tuesday we STILL didn't have checks and even our manager was seriously pissed by this point. He was on the phone practically all day with various people trying to get the problem fixed.
A small group of employees had decided they weren't going to work another minute for the company until they got their checks and were either hanging around outside or in the break room. Practically everyone in the place was in a foul mood, it was not a fun place to be.
FINALLY, on Wednesday, the checks were deposited.
But it didn't end there:
- The company said they would write-up all the employees who refused to work until they were paid, this didn't go over well.
- I was told by a coworker of mine who was still there after I left that it took a handful of employees MONTHS to get the overdrafts credited back to them.
- There was talk of a lawsuit against the company by employees because of this whole debacle.
I got all the money I was owed and so didn't need to bother with any lawsuit.
But man, what a mess.
I suppose that's what I get for working for a company as shady as that one was.
At this job we got paid every second Friday. On my third payday I logged into my bank account and saw my check hadn't been deposited...hmmm....
Slightly peeved, I go to work to shockingly find that NO ONE got their paycheck! Not the managers, not the supervisors, not any of the agents, no one. So the call center manager called a meeting and told us the problem was with the company who processes payroll and they are trying to get it fixed as soon as possible.
By the end of the day Friday, we still had no paychecks and most of us were pretty irritated by now (as a general rule, fucking with people's paychecks in any way is NOT a good idea!).
Saturday and Sunday go by and still no paychecks. We go in on monday and the manager has another meeting and gives us several reasons why we still don't have our money:
1) Certain people at our corporate level were off on the weekend
2) Certain people at the payroll company were off on the weekend
3) They still haven't determined why the checks were not deposited in the first place.
At this point people are seriously pissed. Several of them have already had their accounts overdrafted due to payments that were scheduled to come out after payday. Others, while not overdrafted, are still unable to buy food or other necessities because they have not been paid. Our manager told us the company would take care of the overdrafts if we filled out the proper forms (yay, more paperwork we have to do because of a fuck up that wasn't our fault!).
By Tuesday we STILL didn't have checks and even our manager was seriously pissed by this point. He was on the phone practically all day with various people trying to get the problem fixed.
A small group of employees had decided they weren't going to work another minute for the company until they got their checks and were either hanging around outside or in the break room. Practically everyone in the place was in a foul mood, it was not a fun place to be.
FINALLY, on Wednesday, the checks were deposited.
But it didn't end there:
- The company said they would write-up all the employees who refused to work until they were paid, this didn't go over well.
- I was told by a coworker of mine who was still there after I left that it took a handful of employees MONTHS to get the overdrafts credited back to them.
- There was talk of a lawsuit against the company by employees because of this whole debacle.
I got all the money I was owed and so didn't need to bother with any lawsuit.
But man, what a mess.
I suppose that's what I get for working for a company as shady as that one was.
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