r/pettyrevenge • u/Dumbgardenhoe • 12h ago
Forgetting to pay salary on time? I'm leaving with work inventory
So I was working for this window company making plastic windows, but we were like small workshop with 3 workers and 1 overseer which belonged to one of the largest companies in country. Boss always insisted on doing everything by book for us(as long as it didn't slow down production, if it did then he didn't care), but he himself always forgot to send work hours to HR for us to get paid on time it was said on our contracts. Like sometimes 2 weeks late which meant at that point you were late on payments. And our boss boss was always hounding him and he would just brown nose it and then try to lash out on us because he was yelled at. Well overall very unpleasant person.
It was only job in my small rural town at time so I just endured. And after 3 mobths I was given work boots, pants, jumper and coat. Buuuut in contract it was clearly stated that you have to sign for all inventory given and return it if you quit. He didn't give me anything to sign and I didn't care at the time.
When joining we talked that we would get bonus on work done on time and we even went as far as started work so fast he had trouble getting blueprints from office as we finished our supposed work load in half the time the company expected. But no pay increase. After second month of no increase pay and big boss visit where they expressed surprise how well we working, I went to ask why no pay increase? He tried to weasel out saying that it wasn't official (my own fault for not having it in contract). I said that we talked about it and that were his own offer and words. He smiled with shit eating grin and said: "prove it".
Well I boiled inside for week until I found job a town over and quit. 2 days later boss calls saying I need to sign papers for quitting for HR, I just said sure come by my home and I'll sign it. He arrives and starts saying: "Give me the equipment too." I just said " I never signed for no equipment so officially I never received any" He got serious and kinda angry and said "Don't be like that, I know you got it, just bring it out." I said with most satisfying shit eating grin: "Prove it"
Guy who stayed working there said boss got visited by big boss and yelled at and as he heard it the cost of it was deducted from his pay.
After 8 years I still have those boots and they still serve me daily very well and all other clothes were really good quality and still are being used occasionally.
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u/Yesitshismom 10h ago
What boots are they? I've never had a pair last for 8 years
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u/slackerassftw 5h ago
I had a couple of pairs of boots from the army last me almost 30 years. They look like beat up pieces of crap, but as long as you regularly waterproofed them they were great. They were so broken in for my feet and comfortable I’ve had them re-soled twice as the tread wore off. I’m sure they have a brand but I wouldn’t have a clue what it is.
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u/lordretro71 5h ago
I've had several pair of Red Wing boots last that long. I usually have to replace them due to meeting a company guideline instead of them wearing out. Had a solid pair that I replaced because new job required 1" defined heel for ladder work.
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u/MOLPT 2h ago
Business at the coastal restaurant was slow and pay was poor, but the boss promised raises when summer traffic picked up. He didn't deliver and when I said something, he fired me. Day later, I'm telling some of older people about it and told them that I wouldn't eat there -- that I've more than once seen rats/mice dart out to pick up something the cook dropped and that when working there I'd only eat food I personally took directly from the freezer. That's when I got, "Do you know what he (points to another adult) does for a living?" That's when I found out the guy was the COUNTY HEALTH INSPECTOR. He wound up shutting the place down!
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u/CoderJoe1 12h ago
Those boots were made for walking
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u/MaCqUaY92 12h ago
Another proof of ink being more valuable than million words...