It has recently come to my attention through a personal experience of my own, which I battled with devulging on here or not, that I truly believe a work environment that is safe and free of mental and emotional abuse is becoming more and more predominantly needed. Not only that, but so is the payment of employees for work being done. It seems quite simple. You work the hours. Your time card is submitted. You get paid. No problem right? But did you know that the person who is in charge of signing off on those time cards can say no simply because they want to? And yes, it is illegal. There is even a penalty for every day they choose to do so, for every day they create an environment that is uncomfortable or that you feel you cannot return to the workplace because of this said incident, and they have a specific number of days they MUST by law pay you otherwise they are in fact not just engaging in illegal activity, it's a misdemeanor crime that can cost them their precious little business and all those titles they've worked their whole lives for. *check your state for the individual laws, they can be found at your states labor commission website
You would think most employers wouldn't risk it over some thing petty right? Especially when it's some thing along the lines of, well I want to discuss this and this issue with you. Okay well, can't we do that after you sign my paycheck for the past two weeks when I worked 18 hour days because you forced me to and conveniently don't remember (luckily though I have proof that you did in fact okay and order it). You would think this all wouldn't be worth the trouble. Rectify the problems afterward instead of creating a hostile work environment where you aren't just making one employee feel uncomfortable, chances are, more and more will be rallying behind them every single day and the employer just isn't aware of how bad it really is. They may just think they are the King/Queen of their own world and may do whatever it is they please. Their own Mailer if the headbutt fits. But more and more employers are taking these chances thinking that the employees will simply not do a thing about it.
And in my personal experience? They didn't even acknowledge my response and have yet to direct me personally. And yes, it will most likely go legal in a very ugly way because I am going for not just my full paycheck but for damages caused and money lost for the weeks+ I was unable to work due to their tyrant like qualities. I am giving them, as a company, one last chance to do the right thing before I pull the plug and snap the legal whip, unleashing every possible asset and power play I have including having my Governor, ADA, Labor Commission, BBB, and a massive team of lawyers with documents going back over ten years to back up my claim.
Am I doing this for my money? I want my paycheck. But I also want the employee of this same employer whom was suicidal two days in a row and I had to talk down from literally killing herself, the other employee who had four panic attacks, not anxiety attacks (there is a difference), in less than four hours, that these employers are just simply high school bullies grown up with big titles, bigger pay checks, and even bigger egos and they can not just keep going like this. That you can beat this, you will. That if we all stop taking their bullying and stop just going with it because they sign the check, there will be change. It is almost 2015 and we will not stand for it. I will not stand for it. I refuse to let them think that an emotional and mental nightmare like this, that requires so much medication and doctor attention, without the ability to change jobs because of the market in our location, is how it really is or how it should be. I refuse to let tyrants believe they can or will continue to win. And I refuse to let them think they are some type of powerhouse 'teaching the way of business'. Maybe you were great, twenty years ago. Now you're just mean. And abusive. And I can't find a single redeeming quality about you.
Signed,
The girl that has known you since she was eleven.
