Stiffed!

No pay arrived for my last week of work. I just called the manager, Donna. To her credit, although she sounded less than thrilled to hear from me, she also sounded honestly surprised.

I'm now waiting for next Wednesday's 'payday,' which will hopefully contain my last 30 hours of pay. Otherwise, I'm afraid I'll have to report them to the Dept. of Labor.

I am so sorry for the whole debacle...and yet I am also glad that you are no longer there and very impressed that you even allowed yourself to "suck it up" and take that damn job to begin with...much more that you approached it from such an enlightened place of service and learning.

:hug:
to you and wishes for your next employment to be 180 from this experience! you deserve it!

Northernlights, you are such an incredible inspiration. You truly, truly are!

And, yes, you deserve a DELIGHTFUL, JOY~FILLED experience....any moment now.

:hug:

:yourock:

They'll make SURE you get a check just to guarantee that they won't hear from you anymore.

Sorry I missed your previous post, NL, about them letting you go. That's ageism, pure and simple. It's the one discriminatory practice that employers can still get away with. (And doncha just LOVE it when people treat 50-something as the age of senility, frailty, and stupidity. :grr: )

My mom is 84 but acts 64 (good genes from both her parents--hope I've got 'em too). She works at H&R Block every tax season and also has worked retail since retiring from her full-time job about 15, 20 years ago (most recently at a department store till it closed). She was bored at home, so she applied at her nearby Target because a friend of hers knew for a fact they were hiring. They LOVED her...on paper. The minute she walked in for a F2F interview with an assistant manager who was young enough to be her grandson, all bets were off (even though she doesn't look 84, either). The assistant manager asked her for her birthdate (gave some weak excuse for why they needed it) and practically fainted when she said 1925. SUDDENLY there were no openings. Imagine that...

Anyway, back to your situation--perhaps you have learned whatever lesson you set up for yourself, or perhaps you worked out some karma, or taught someone something they needed to know. Heck, maybe your entire task was to get the manager to look at her life more closely and make some changes before she gets to "your age" :eyes: --but now you're done, so you can move on. Despite the abuse and disrespect, it seems like it was a good/necessary experience for whatever reason. It's even better now that it's OVER.
:rofl:

I have two friends who were systematically run out of their jobs in their early 50's. It is a travesty! I'm 45 and am just now beginning to feel like I have enough life experience to be truly effective in dealing with people. Yet people who have the necessary life experience are thrown away.

Another symptom of our society's over-all sickness. They convince us that we are useful only for as long as we are young and dumb enough to control.

if it wasn't the corruption I am supposed to expose. After being fired w/out cause or notice, I was driven to write and post a long article on GD (about the 'sammich-factory chain,' lol).

I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt for the moment -- that I was in the middle of being switched to direct pay and ended up not getting any pay.

But if I'm not payed in the next cycle, then it's to the Dept. of Labor I go. Also their corporate masters, Doctor's Associates.

If all else fails, I'll at least out them on GD ;)