So I thought that me being done with working at ex-job would mean the end to the crap I have been putting up with. I ended up being incorrect in my assumptions. Now, I have thought about not writing about this, but I feel like if I do not vent off some steam, my head might explode. I’m just frustrated, angry, annoyed, etc. Ya’ know?
Yesterday I received my final paycheck in the mail. I open it and come to find out that it is not complete. The company did not pay me for the total amount on my invoice. Why? Because they felt like me charging them the late fees and overdraft fees I incurred from their previous late payment was not “fair” or “within policy”.
You know, when you get your paycheck 10 days LATE and you incur, I don’t know, say, $150 in late fees/overdraft fees, and your contract stipulates you get paid within 15 days from invoice date, you’d think you’d be within your right to, I don’t know, ask for that money. Right?
So when I call B up to ask her about it, she tells me how she fought tooth and nail to get those payments approved for me, and in the end, lost. She didn’t think it was fair, and in the end, only adds to her bitterness as the company is also screwing her over.
Apparently the company’s accounting system had me in as Net 30 pay, which is incorrect. B argued with them over the phone about how my contract stipulates Net 15 pay, but the company kept arguing that their system says Net 30. Well instead of changing it to be correct, they just keep saying, “Well the system says…” I feel like we’re working with a bunch of monkeys. Or crooks. Either way, this does not look too well on their end.
Anyway, one part of me wants to let it go. I want to be done with the trouble. I don’t want to create more trouble. But the other part of me wants to fight tooth and nail to get my money back. This is not the first paycheck that has been late, either. Maybe I’m basing a decision to take action solely on principles, or maybe on bitterness? I don’t know. But the truth of the matter is that I’m not the only one they have done this to, nor is this the first time this has happened to me. Maybe I should try to do something about it so that the next guy doesn’t get screwed over? That maybe the company will realize that what they are doing is terrible business practice and WRONG?
*sigh*
Silly company.
And just to end this on a good note: I am very thankful that I had the opportunity to produce something tangible and (hopefully) of economic value for the company. I am thankful that I was able to meet some great people at that company. If I hadn’t worked there, who knows if I would have met the people that I now have very close relationships to. And now I am thankful for the opportunity to move on to bigger and better things. A new “adventure”, if you will. 
“And we’ll all float on OK.”
Sounds like a big pain in the behind. Small claims court?
I was thinking about the how the only way you’ll get that money is to sue them for it.
Of course, I’m also not a fan of taking things to court unless you exhaust all other opportunities. If you have it in a written document that you are Net 15, then I think that you ought to go to B’s boss and 1) show that person your documentation and 2) tell that person you are going to go to court and 3) be prepared to tell that person that you will go to that person’s boss if necessary.
Then see what happens. Sometimes people think they can get away with being lazy and/or incorrect (i.e. the “this is what it has in the system”) if there are no consequences.