My Boss REFUSES to PAY ME... So l get the STATE LABOR BOARD Involved and things Get Rough
Am I the Jerk?
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🗓️ 10 March 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | My boss refuses to pay me, so I get the state labor board involved and things get rough. |
| 0:07.0 | Here's what happened. |
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| 0:13.0 | Several years back I went to work for a towing company. |
| 0:16.0 | It's about all I know how to do other than paint cars, which is drastically affecting my health. |
| 0:22.0 | The pay was pretty decent, but we had to share trucks, |
| 0:25.3 | and the boss felt that he knew where we needed to sit |
| 0:28.2 | in order to get the best calls. |
| 0:30.0 | This is important for later. |
| 0:31.8 | Several months in, I realized that I wasn't making the type of money that I should be making. |
| 0:36.5 | So I took the opportunity while I was sitting in a parking lot one evening to start researching |
| 0:40.8 | the laws pertaining to employees in similar positions. |
| 0:44.2 | He was kind of a jerk and the trucks had transponders so that he could see if we had them idling |
| 0:49.8 | with the air conditioner on on a hot day, or we're idling with the heat on a cold day. |
| 0:54.7 | He was always calling, complaining about something if the wheels weren't turning. |
| 0:58.7 | During my research, I discovered that if he was requiring us to sit in a certain parking lot, street, or any location of his |
| 1:05.7 | choosing, then we were entitled to be paid an hourly wage, not just our commission. |
| 1:11.0 | The technical term was engaged to wait. However, if he allowed us to roam |
| 1:15.2 | freely out and about while we waited for calls, we were not entitled to hourly wages, and we were |
| 1:21.0 | therefore considered waiting to be engaged. |
| 1:23.9 | I never mentioned this to him, but I did start taking note of my time. |
| 1:28.2 | Another month or so goes by and he decided to start coming down on me for tiny little things, things that ordinarily wouldn't even matter, such as I forgot a pop can in the cup holder. |
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