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I was scammed today...

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ScottyB

Diamond Member
...not by a con-artist, but by an employer. I needed some extra cash this summer for food (while I work on my book) so I took a job receiving calls from PBS viewers during their pledge drive next month. I went into the interview Monday (and had to do some training while there) and wasn't officially hired until today. I had signed up for training tonight when I was there on Monday (wouldn't be officially hired until I called back today to confirm) and was told that I should get paid as it is mandatory training. I went to the training under that impression and at the end, after learning how they count hours and subsequently asking about today's training, was told that I wouldn't be paid for the training. I would also have to attend a mandatory two-hour session next week, where I wouldn't be paid but would receive pizza :roll:. Under Michigan law, training must be paid; needless to say, I am quite peeved and will be contacting the Labor Dept. tomorrow morning. The thing that upsets me most is that I spent 1.5 hours there Monday and one hour today, plus time getting ready, where I could have been writing.
 
Just don't show up for work.

or take Homer's advice: "No, no, no, Lisa. If adults don't like their jobs, they don't go on strike. They just go in every day and do it really half-assed."
 
Originally posted by: her209
Just don't show up for work.
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No, I am making sure they are investigated and getting my $6.50. I shouldn't have went there in the first place, but it had few required hours, was only a month in duration, and seemed to be easy. I nearly have two university degrees; I really shouldn't lower my standards in the future.
 
Originally posted by: Scarpozzi
Originally posted by: Rent
I hear the worlds smallest violin playing right now...
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Yeah...but he's right. If the employer isn't doing things by the book...let em fry.
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We were also required to turn in sheets for the evening with our hours written at the end of the shift we worked. They explained if it were to be lost, they would not be able to pay us for that shift as they had "no way of knowing" if we worked it or not.
 
Originally posted by: Legendary
I'll bet PBS has some sort of exemption from paying for training - just a hunch.
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PBS hires the company that answers the phones. It is a "for-profit" company.
 
Well it's a pity to have to nark on PBS, but props for standing up for your rights. I wish I could do the same, but I like the steady income/health/retirement too much to complain.
 
I said it earlier today and I'll say it again, life's a bitch... isn't she?

Looks like your novels ruined, god forbid you actually have to put in work or elbow grease somewhere to secure a fvcking job, and your life is now in shambles. Sucks to be you doesn't it?

 
The best thing is about ATOT, is I can read something like this and be so thouroughly disgusted in it's bullshit, that I type out some arrogant and ignorant reply to it, which I normally refrain from, to try and knock your soft handed girlie-man emo-ego self off a peg, then I'll wake up tomorrow, and if I'm not banned, I will have completely forgotten all about this, while sleeping smugly with a sense of self satisfaction for telling you exactly how the fvck I feel. wooooooooooo It's time to eat and go to sleep.
 
Originally posted by: Literati
The best thing is about ATOT, is I can read something like this and be so thouroughly disgusted in it's bullshit, that I type out some arrogant and ignorant reply to it, which I normally refrain from, to try and knock your soft handed girlie-man emo-ego self off a peg, then I'll wake up tomorrow, and if I'm not banned, I will have completely forgotten all about this, while sleeping smugly with a sense of self satisfaction for telling you exactly how the fvck I feel. wooooooooooo It's time to eat and go to sleep.
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I'm so sorry I offended you to such a high degree. I suppose tomorrow I will withdraw from the university and get a job cleaning up other men's ejaculation like you.
 
Originally posted by: ScottyB
I'm so sorry I offended you to such a high degree. I suppose tomorrow I will withdraw from the university and get a job cleaning up other men's ejaculation like you.
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Ahhh yes, a joke in which male ejaculation comes into play (no pun intended, OMG) in which I appear to be the butt of. How so very clever and original.

I don't know, maybe I'm just too jaded from actually having to work to earn a position in the work force, that I could not possibly feel the effects of this obvious social atrocity to the extent that you do, because you're obviously a victim of employer castigation on the level that of which none of us in the real world has ever had to work through.

Regardless of our different stances on your position as an employee, the fact remains, I'm going to sleep, and you should be writting a novel.
 
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