[sub]or alternitively[/sub] Concerning The State of California and Slave Labor
Three guesses why I didn't use the second one.
So recently I got into the construction business; mostly digging holes. More recently, I've stopped going to work; I'm not going to rip apart my body every day with nothing to show for it.
Wait, let me elaborate. After months of searching and pulling a few favors, I managed to get a job. Sure, it's eight to ten hours of backbreaking physichal labor, sometimes twice a day, but it's better than doing nothing. And I'm getting money for it, which is more than most of the things I've done in my life.
Then payday comes around (tuesday, if you were curious) and I don't get paid. I kinda shrug it off, I can understand not getting paid for the first week, something may not have gotten through, ect, ect. Then a second week rolls around. Still nothing. I shrug it off again, most of the same things; besides, I'm a nice guy. By week three I'm asking the other guys about it; yeah, boss is apparently a dick, yeah, he hasn't paid a few people in weeks, yeah, if you ask the superiors about it, you'll get kicked. By week four, I've had enough, and I ask the chick who comes around giving us saftey lectues about it. She tells me she'll look into it. Next day I'm told not to come back to work. Oh yeah, and no money for your hard labor. Sorry.
Call me crazy, but this sounds a little...unfair? Maybe bordering on illegal. But mostly just dickheaded. It's not exaclty that I needed the money, as much as it is I had plans for it; my computer blew up, and I was planning on getting a new one. Plus some of my clothes are kind of...ripped into shreds. Tough work, to say the least.
So, topic time; Has anything like this happened to you, my fellow Escapists? If so, what did you do about it? I'm not going to sit around and do nothing, but I'm not sure what to do; a lawsuit would be nice, but realistically, it could cost me twice the $1200-$1500 I'm owed. And people, possibly friends I made on the job who I still talk to, would lose their jobs, too.
Apologies if this is the wrong place to post this kind of thing.
Three guesses why I didn't use the second one.
So recently I got into the construction business; mostly digging holes. More recently, I've stopped going to work; I'm not going to rip apart my body every day with nothing to show for it.
Wait, let me elaborate. After months of searching and pulling a few favors, I managed to get a job. Sure, it's eight to ten hours of backbreaking physichal labor, sometimes twice a day, but it's better than doing nothing. And I'm getting money for it, which is more than most of the things I've done in my life.
Then payday comes around (tuesday, if you were curious) and I don't get paid. I kinda shrug it off, I can understand not getting paid for the first week, something may not have gotten through, ect, ect. Then a second week rolls around. Still nothing. I shrug it off again, most of the same things; besides, I'm a nice guy. By week three I'm asking the other guys about it; yeah, boss is apparently a dick, yeah, he hasn't paid a few people in weeks, yeah, if you ask the superiors about it, you'll get kicked. By week four, I've had enough, and I ask the chick who comes around giving us saftey lectues about it. She tells me she'll look into it. Next day I'm told not to come back to work. Oh yeah, and no money for your hard labor. Sorry.
Call me crazy, but this sounds a little...unfair? Maybe bordering on illegal. But mostly just dickheaded. It's not exaclty that I needed the money, as much as it is I had plans for it; my computer blew up, and I was planning on getting a new one. Plus some of my clothes are kind of...ripped into shreds. Tough work, to say the least.
So, topic time; Has anything like this happened to you, my fellow Escapists? If so, what did you do about it? I'm not going to sit around and do nothing, but I'm not sure what to do; a lawsuit would be nice, but realistically, it could cost me twice the $1200-$1500 I'm owed. And people, possibly friends I made on the job who I still talk to, would lose their jobs, too.
Apologies if this is the wrong place to post this kind of thing.