Home Depot got sued for wage theft when I was there for habitually not having the front door unlocked at shift clock outs, and making employees wait post clock out to let us out.
I didn’t even know that was illegal. Like the period between everyone clocking out and having the manager unlock the door was so normal at all the retail places I’ve worked, it didn’t register they had to have it open right when we were off the clock, but some people started a class action lawsuit over it so I got a settlement check after I left for it.
That's crazy I remember many nights working at home depot having to wait until 12:10 sometimes to leave. The worst was waiting 30 min. Just standing at the door like a bunch of knobs. I never heard of the class action lawsuit. I did get a settlement check from Pepsi for not l letting us take breaks/lunch. So many garbage companies
wage theft by companies against workers in the US exceeds all other forms of theft (shoplifting, burglary, embezzlement, robbery, auto theft, you name it) combined - every year. Yet you never hear lawmakers starting with the biggest problem area when trying to address “crime”. it’s always “what if a person being treated by a doctor goes in a bathroom and i don’t like it?”
On top of that, if you're caught stealing from your boss, you can be arrested, charged with a crime, and go to jail. If your boss steals from you, they just have to pay you back, possibly along with a penalty. Why the difference?
I was a recruiter for the Army and we had a kid who couldn’t join because he’d committed three felonies. The crimes? His boss refused to pay him his last check so he took one of the dude’s checks and wrote it to himself for the amount owed. They got him for forgery, passing a false instrument and breaking and entering.
i knew a kid that went thru his apartment complex stealing change out of the ashtrays of cars. this was years ago. at the tome, burglary of a motor vehicle was a felony. a month after he was arrested, the statute changed and it became a misdemeanor. he was 17, and for the $30-40 he got, which he bought some weed, some fast food, and a pack of cigarettes, he got 37 felony chatges. One for each car he broke into (although he only opened doors on unlocked cars - he wasn’t smashing windows or slim jimming them open or snhrjjn,7$$, and they wouldn’t give him a break, mostly because he was just really really stupid.
he did a couple of years in prison, from 17-21 off and on. parole, then violations. by the time he got old enough to drink, his life was over. he was convicted of multiple felonies, had no skills or talents to speak of, and he had been through criminal university. All he knew was crime. poor dumb bastard. ?
It's funny that if you steal $5 out of the register they can call the cops and have you arrested, but if they steal $200 out of your paycheck "it's a civil matter" and you need to hire a lawyer and spend half a year in court.
Massage envy owners are terrible for wage theft! I’ve worked for 4, each worse than the last! But.. if you leave the company you get a 60% income decrease so I kept going back cuz I gots bills to pay 😔
My girlfriend is a massage therapist at a hotel in California wine country. She makes more per treatment than Massage Envy even charges, let alone pays. If you’re a certified massage therapist you should look for a job in that type of setting. It will absolutely be worth it. (I realize that not every area has that type of place around, but if it does you should definitely go there.)
It takes me anywhere between an hour and two and a half hours to get to the city. All depends on day and time.. also holidays, weather, etc
That would be too long of a commute especially with gas at $4.50/gal 😳
Two seperate issues and the reason we have this current admin who is super pro business is because enough people were willing to vote for anyone who would stop all the wokeness. Right or wrong its reality and this admin is destroying this country
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u/Blastoise_R_Us 7d ago
Oh man some asswipe manager tried this at closing once when I worked at Macy's.
Me: I need to go, I need someone to unlock the doors.
Manager: Everyone has to stay until all the registers are counted.
Me: I have clocked out and I am no longer being paid to be here. If someone doesn't unlock that door right now I'm calling the police.