My final check was late, but I learned I get paid for every day it's late, so I kept quiet.

I got a job as an emergency medical technician or EMT after a six-month community college training course.

I was woefully unqualified, I barely knew the basics, but the teacher kept saying,

don't worry, the new job will

train you when you're hired. I got hired at an ambulance transport place that just took people

to dialysis and things like that, not emergency services. But there was no training. I was told

to figure it out myself. I didn't know what I was doing and I quickly realized this wasn't a fit.

But I continued to try. On day four, I was let go. I'd worked four days total. I signed a paper

with reasons they were firing me, all of which I agreed to, so I signed. I asked if they had

my check ready, and the man who was doing the paperwork said they didn't, but they'd send it to me.

Not exactly legal, but okay.

I waited and waited.

No check.

I called to see where it was.

I knew they were supposed to get that to me pretty quickly by law.

I called a few times to see where it was.

The boss lady was so rude, hanging up on me, not taking calls,

when I did get someone they'd say, we'll mail it. I started researching labour laws because

it was getting ridiculous. That's when I found out they have to give me a day's pay for every

day my check is late, which is 150 bucks a day. So I stopped calling and started waiting. I've finally

got a check, but it was a payroll check, and it turns out I'd worked two days in one day period

and two on the next one. So I called again to tell them and got yelled at by the boss lady,

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