Need Advice on dealing with old boss

[Goosemaster]

1. I got fired some time ago

2. Boss had never paid me my comission. I am owed about 5 months of comission. I was practically an hourly employee with a comission that was a percent amount of all the billed work.

3. I still have some of the office equipment that I need to return. I was thinking of holding on to it, but thought against that. I thought that perhaps drafting a confirmation letter stating that I have indeed returned ALL borrowed items, and/or items belonging to the company to him, that I would make him sign when I gave him the stuff.

3. Returning his stuff, and making him confirm the return of all his stuff in writing will prevent him from using the untreturned property excuse for not paying me. I don't think that will get me far in terms of getting my money, however much it is. ( I don't know )

4. I am looking for advice. Since it was a verbal agreement (fvk! I know) the only thing that I can think of that I can stand on is that he gave me company phone service and paid a percentage of my gas (not much at all ) all based on a verbal agreement. Is there anyway I can comapre the phone service/gas verbal agreement with the comission agreement?

 

[sonz70]

What kind of office equipment, how much money owed?

Pics of your depressed face contemplating this?

 

[her209]

This can't be legal.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: her209
This can't be legal.

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[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: sonz70
What kind of office equipment, how much money owed?

Just my keys, a phone, my uniform

 

[sonz70]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: sonz70
What kind of office equipment, how much money owed?

Just my keys, a phone, my uniform

valud of phone? and how much is owned?

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: sonz70

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: sonz70
What kind of office equipment, how much money owed?

Just my keys, a phone, my uniform

valud of phone? and how much is owned?

Phone is jsut a cell phone..$100? if that..

Amount owed is probably more than a thousand

 

[sonz70]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: sonz70

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: sonz70
What kind of office equipment, how much money owed?

Just my keys, a phone, my uniform

valud of phone? and how much is owned?

Phone is jsut a cell phone..$100? if that..

Amount owed is probably more than a thousand

You didn't keep a paper record of monies owed?

 

[sixone]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
1. I got fired some time ago

2. Boss had never paid me my comission. I am owed about 5 months of comission. I was practically an hourly employee with a comission that was a percent amount of all the billed work.

3. I still have some of the office equipment that I need to return. I was thinking of holding on to it, but thought against that. I thought that perhaps drafting a confirmation letter stating that I have indeed returned ALL borrowed items, and/or items belonging to the company to him, that I would make him sign when I gave him the stuff.

3. Returning his stuff, and making him confirm the return of all his stuff in writing will prevent him from using the untreturned property excuse for not paying me. I don't think that will get me far in terms of getting my money, however much it is. ( I don't know )

4. I am looking for advice. Since it was a verbal agreement (fvk! I know) the only thing that I can think of that I can stand on is that he gave me company phone service and paid a percentage of my gas (not much at all ) all based on a verbal agreement. Is there anyway I can comapre the phone service/gas verbal agreement with the comission agreement?

Do you have copies of checks/stubs that you received for commissions before you were fired? They may provide proof that he was upholding this verbal agreement. Your best option is to lawyer up.

Best to have a lawyer involved in the return of property, so that it isn't your word against his. If that's not an option, ask your former boss to provide you with a list of items that need to be returned, and have witnesses to your returning those items to him, while having him and the witnesses sign a receipt for the items.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: sonz70

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: sonz70

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: sonz70
What kind of office equipment, how much money owed?

Just my keys, a phone, my uniform

valud of phone? and how much is owned?

Phone is jsut a cell phone..$100? if that..

Amount owed is probably more than a thousand

You didn't keep a paper record of monies owed?

It's all in the computer system

It would have serverely impractical to do that.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: sixone

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
1. I got fired some time ago

2. Boss had never paid me my comission. I am owed about 5 months of comission. I was practically an hourly employee with a comission that was a percent amount of all the billed work.

3. I still have some of the office equipment that I need to return. I was thinking of holding on to it, but thought against that. I thought that perhaps drafting a confirmation letter stating that I have indeed returned ALL borrowed items, and/or items belonging to the company to him, that I would make him sign when I gave him the stuff.

3. Returning his stuff, and making him confirm the return of all his stuff in writing will prevent him from using the untreturned property excuse for not paying me. I don't think that will get me far in terms of getting my money, however much it is. ( I don't know )

4. I am looking for advice. Since it was a verbal agreement (fvk! I know) the only thing that I can think of that I can stand on is that he gave me company phone service and paid a percentage of my gas (not much at all ) all based on a verbal agreement. Is there anyway I can comapre the phone service/gas verbal agreement with the comission agreement?

Do you have copies of checks/stubs that you received for commissions before you were fired? They may provide proof that he was upholding this verbal agreement. Your best option is to lawyer up.

Best to have a lawyer involved in the return of property, so that it isn't your word against his. If that's not an option, ask your former boss to provide you with a list of items that need to be returned, and have witnesses to your returning those items to him, while having him and the witnesses sign a receipt for the items.

This is something that I had planned to do. As for the comission, he kept puttign it off and it was NEVER paid to me, making that agreement harder to prove. My slothness in this matter is my undoing. I had so much goign on with work and school that I let it slip and may end up payign the price for it

 

[sonz70]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: sonz70

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: sonz70

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: sonz70
What kind of office equipment, how much money owed?

Just my keys, a phone, my uniform

valud of phone? and how much is owned?

Phone is jsut a cell phone..$100? if that..

Amount owed is probably more than a thousand

You didn't keep a paper record of monies owed?

It's all in the computer system

It would have serverely impractical to do that.

Ask for a printout of all monies owed for Tax reasons, if they refuse write the IRS saying employeer will not let you pay your taxes?

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: sonz70

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: sonz70

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: sonz70

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: sonz70
What kind of office equipment, how much money owed?

Just my keys, a phone, my uniform

valud of phone? and how much is owned?

Phone is jsut a cell phone..$100? if that..

Amount owed is probably more than a thousand

You didn't keep a paper record of monies owed?

It's all in the computer system

It would have serverely impractical to do that.

Ask for a printout of all monies owed for Tax reasons, if they refuse write the IRS saying employeer will not let you pay your taxes?

interesting....

 

[sonz70]

DP

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: sonz70

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: sonz70

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: sonz70

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: sonz70

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: sonz70
What kind of office equipment, how much money owed?

Just my keys, a phone, my uniform

valud of phone? and how much is owned?

Phone is jsut a cell phone..$100? if that..

Amount owed is probably more than a thousand

You didn't keep a paper record of monies owed?

It's all in the computer system

It would have serverely impractical to do that.

Ask for a printout of all monies owed for Tax reasons, if they refuse write the IRS saying employeer will not let you pay your taxes?

interesting....

Worked for me for a sales company that tried to fcvk me out of commisions.

that sounds so fvkign simple and yet so fvking brilliant..lol

 

[lokiju]

Get a lawyer to draft of a letter threating legal action if monies aren't paid.

 

[sixone]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: sixone
Do you have copies of checks/stubs that you received for commissions before you were fired? They may provide proof that he was upholding this verbal agreement. Your best option is to lawyer up.

Best to have a lawyer involved in the return of property, so that it isn't your word against his. If that's not an option, ask your former boss to provide you with a list of items that need to be returned, and have witnesses to your returning those items to him, while having him and the witnesses sign a receipt for the items.

This is something that I had planned to do. As for the comission, he kept puttign it off and it was NEVER paid to me, making that agreement harder to prove. My slothness in this matter is my undoing. I had so much goign on with work and school that I let it slip and may end up payign the price for it

Sounds like you're going to have to kiss that commission goodbye. Chalk it up to an important life lesson learned the hard way. But don't wait on returning his property - if he gets off his ass and sues you, you could be in a world of hurt.

 

[sonz70]

Originally posted by: lokiju
Get a lawyer to draft of a letter threating legal action if monies aren't paid.

For the amount of money owned, it would be impractical for a lawyer.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: sixone

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: sixone
Do you have copies of checks/stubs that you received for commissions before you were fired? They may provide proof that he was upholding this verbal agreement. Your best option is to lawyer up.

Best to have a lawyer involved in the return of property, so that it isn't your word against his. If that's not an option, ask your former boss to provide you with a list of items that need to be returned, and have witnesses to your returning those items to him, while having him and the witnesses sign a receipt for the items.

This is something that I had planned to do. As for the comission, he kept puttign it off and it was NEVER paid to me, making that agreement harder to prove. My slothness in this matter is my undoing. I had so much goign on with work and school that I let it slip and may end up payign the price for it

Sounds like you're going to have to kiss that commission goodbye. Chalk it up to an important life lesson learned the hard way. But don't wait on returning his property - if he gets off his ass and sues you, you could be in a world of hurt.

Aye.

 

[myusername]

So for the pay you did receive, he paid you in cash? If check, ask bank for copies of deposited checks.

Edit: it doesn't confirm the amount still owed, but it verifies the verbal contract.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: myusername
So for the pay you did receive, he paid you in cash? If check, ask bank for copies of deposited checks.

Edit: it doesn't confirm the amount still owed, but it verifies the verbal contract.

FOr the pay I did Recieve I got paid using checks and in the end, thye were deposited to my account using a payroll co.

 

[sonz70]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: myusername
So for the pay you did receive, he paid you in cash? If check, ask bank for copies of deposited checks.

Edit: it doesn't confirm the amount still owed, but it verifies the verbal contract.

FOr the pay I did Recieve I got paid using checks and in the end, thye were deposited to my account using a payroll co.

Banks should have copies of the checks