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Wellness Wednesday for February 19, 2025

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I didn’t expect this on my February bingo card but I had to report a business to the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division for wage theft and illegal termination because like four hours before my first day of training began they sent me my paperwork and there was a gigantic list of straight-up illegal wage deductions including “out of dress code on property” for $100 each “offense” and a line that said they’d terminate for “discussing pay rates with anyone”. I have a bit of a psychological knee-jerk shyness to positions of authority in business so I had to max out all of my bravery points to do it because then the recruiter kept spamming my phone trying to “explain why we had the rules please reconsider” until I busted out the i word, so go me, stickin’ it to the man. (//∇//)\

That was the correct call. It will be disruptive / stressful to have to search for another job so soon before you even started the last, but if you'd submitted to this you would have been preyed upon worse.

Best of luck getting your feet back from under you, and it will be easier in the future to speak for yourself (or others) having done this once already.

My wife works in payroll. It's amazing how many people try stuff like this. I can't wrap my head around "I'm going to break the law in writing in a way that directly motivates people to report me."

I think there are just so many people who want a job and are also desperate/naive and there are so many businesses out there that one business can just keep churning through the fodder for years until someone reports them.

Fair play to you, you made the right call.

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