Posted on 07/23/2015 8:30:02 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
These guys owed me a bonus which was worth nearly half my annual pay (I had busted my tail that year and we blew away our sales projections).
They filed Chap. 11 before I got paid. I never did get paid. I got the paperwork from the bankruptcy court, determined which of their 53 wholly-owned subsidiaries owed me the money, and filed a claim.
They responded by telling the court that I HAD been paid. An out-and-out lie. But my only recourse was to request a hearing and travel to the bankruptcy court in NEW YORK CITY on my own dime. If it ever got settled for ten cents on the dollar it might just cover the cost of my trip.
Standard operating procedure I’m afraid. I’m sure that our vendors got SCROOOOOOOD much, much worse.
I got burned on a commission on selling used and refurbished computer equipment. It was during the second time I wound up in the ER from killing myself in that tin hothouse.
Despite all the medical stuff they asked for and got emailed and faxed a few times over, each time saying it was enough, for some reason it never was. By then I was so dead and drained I wound up quitting well after supposedly being in whatever window to get paid.
No I didn’t and the explanation I got from the HR crowd had to do with my documentation being incomplete. I would have pushed it but suing them wasn’t practical and just being free of them was a heck of a good feeling.
The guy in charge from St. Louis was a fast talking jerk who thought I was slow and dumb because I was from SC. He also said in the presence of co-irkers that he set me up to fail. I was not wanted despite me having the qualifications and experience no one had. Out of a week, he might have spent 30 minutes training me.
After I left he came back to train a couple of guys who got my old job. He spent two weeks with them, plenty of guidance and hands on.
They did ok but were fired I heard for stealing. I don’t know if they did or not, I would like to hope not. Given how that crowd ran things, nothing would surprise me.
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