I Haven't Been Paid In 20 Weeks
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4.5 • 839 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Brought to you by CHO, a budget-friendly faith-based alternative to health insurance. |
| 0:07.6 | CH Ministries.org slash budget. |
| 0:10.1 | I am a master electrician working for another master electrician for the last four or five years, |
| 0:17.2 | and I recently discovered that we're about 20 weeks behind on payroll, which |
| 0:22.6 | equates about $18,000. I'm looking for some advice on... |
| 0:28.6 | I'm sorry. |
| 0:29.6 | You haven't been paid in 20 weeks, but you recently discovered that? |
| 0:34.6 | I've been getting paid but not you know like two pay periods in a |
| 0:41.5 | month or three pay periods in a month not for and it's accumulated into yeah and |
| 0:47.6 | in February the most up-to-date pay period I have is October 4th. |
| 0:57.0 | Why are you just discovering this? |
| 1:01.0 | Well, that's a phenomenal question. It's definitely my fault that I have failed to realize it for this long. |
| 1:06.0 | I've been building a house. |
| 1:08.0 | I just had a baby. |
| 1:09.0 | I got married this year. |
| 1:14.2 | Which would be all the more reasons I counted all my paychecks. |
| 1:15.9 | Absolutely. |
| 1:17.3 | Absolutely. |
| 1:18.4 | Okay. |
| 1:21.8 | So why is the guy not paying you what he owes you? |
| 1:29.9 | Well, it used to be a company of five employees, and everybody left and it was just him and myself and then he got stiffed on a $25,000 job. |
| 1:35.6 | He put a lien on the property but never got paid for it and I think he just transferred |
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