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Buff · 03-10-2009, 01:46 PM

I worked for a company that was going through hard times (pretty much for all 15+ years of their existence). They had five people working for them, one was on contract the rest of us were employees. There were several times when they couldn't pay us the full amount or had to pay us a week or two late. I think at one point we only received portions of our pay cheques for three months straight (but we were always eventually payed what we were owed).

Anyway, the contractor was often not paid because they didn't have to pay him right away... his work ethic was also extremely questionable and the quality of the work he did was also shoddy at times. Through evesdropping he heard the boss tell one of us that we're getting paid a portion of our pay cheque but the contractor wasn't getting anything that month so don't say anything to that feller. He did some research and confronted them to make him an employee instead of a contractor. It worked out that he was made an employee on the last day of one month and the next day he came in (before the bosses did, I should mention) and saw that there was no pay cheque on his desk so he upped and quit and took them to court and won. He was a weasle though and claimed that he worked double hours and that he was always an employee and that they just didn't do the paperwork so they wouldn't have to pay him etc. etc. His course of action screwed the rest of us over. Maybe we were pushovers but we were patient and didn't raise a huge fuss and it worked out for us in the end. I was the last to work for them as an employee, they only contracted out jobs from there on in.

They weren't shady, they just did a horrible job at managing their business and the people who worked for them, as well as themselves, suffered as a result.

03-10-2009, 01:46 PM	#19
Buff Franchise Player Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: I don't belong here Exp:	I worked for a company that was going through hard times (pretty much for all 15+ years of their existence). They had five people working for them, one was on contract the rest of us were employees. There were several times when they couldn't pay us the full amount or had to pay us a week or two late. I think at one point we only received portions of our pay cheques for three months straight (but we were always eventually payed what we were owed). Anyway, the contractor was often not paid because they didn't have to pay him right away... his work ethic was also extremely questionable and the quality of the work he did was also shoddy at times. Through evesdropping he heard the boss tell one of us that we're getting paid a portion of our pay cheque but the contractor wasn't getting anything that month so don't say anything to that feller. He did some research and confronted them to make him an employee instead of a contractor. It worked out that he was made an employee on the last day of one month and the next day he came in (before the bosses did, I should mention) and saw that there was no pay cheque on his desk so he upped and quit and took them to court and won. He was a weasle though and claimed that he worked double hours and that he was always an employee and that they just didn't do the paperwork so they wouldn't have to pay him etc. etc. His course of action screwed the rest of us over. Maybe we were pushovers but we were patient and didn't raise a huge fuss and it worked out for us in the end. I was the last to work for them as an employee, they only contracted out jobs from there on in. They weren't shady, they just did a horrible job at managing their business and the people who worked for them, as well as themselves, suffered as a result.