As some of you may know, I have been working four jobs to pay off some major medical bills. I have been having quite a few issues with my now-former creepy boss at the hotel where I was working the front desk part-time. Last week I discovered some discrepancies between my last pay stub of 2022, and what he had on my w-2. To summarize, my w-2 stated I had made around $800 more than what my final pays tub did, while showing that I had paid about $800 more in taxes than what my final paycheck was showing. Here is what went down when I asked him about it on Monday—
I called him while I was on break at my hospital job. He pretended not to know what was going on, and tried to convince me that I was “reading the paystub and w-2 wrong.” I told him I knew for a fact I was reading it right, and he said he would look into it. I told him I would stop by after I got off work that evening and talk to him.
When I got there, he made me wait about 30 minutes before he would come and talk to me—and when he did, he had the gall to lie to my face, and tell me I owed HIM $800, and that he would be taking it out of my paycheck! At that point, I told him that I QUIT, and that he could keep his little chicken crap job. I also told him I would be there to pick up my last paycheck next Friday.
I then turned and walked out of the building. He sent me a text message almost as soon as I left telling me that he would be holding ALL of my final paycheck to pay my “debt” to him, and that I was not allowed back on the property. By the way, I was not rude, or yelling at the guy when I told him I quit—I was just firm and professionally assertive. Thankfully, there were cameras there, so if he were to try to claim I was behaving in an inappropriate way, it would be quickly shown to be a lie. He was the one doing all the yelling!
I went home, and making use of the good advice I got from several commenters in my last diary—the next day, I filed a complaint with the Kentucky Division of Wages and Hours. I also earned that he has until the end of February to issue me a corrected w-2—if he does not, I can then file a complaint with the IRS. We will see if the state of Kentucky actually does anything about it. I have yet to hear anything back from them, but it has only been since Tuesday. In any case, I won’t be able to get my last paycheck from him next Friday, since he told me I could not be on the property.
I am not the only employee he has been cheating—but the other worker I spoke with was afraid to say anything. Maybe, if I am lucky and the state, and the IRS actually investigate this, any other workers he has tried to cheat will get their money too.
I know one thing—I am going to go to sites like Glassdoor, Google reviews, etc, and tell people what he did, and how shady he is about the way he runs his business. I also bet a lot of people would be interested in knowing how he has a policy of putting an additional $100 hold on people’s credit cards if the are from Kentucky, and then looking for any reason he can to keep their money when they check out. He will also switch people who reserved a room with two beds to a room with only one bed if it is a busy night (such as when there id a University of Kentucky game or a major concert), and then rent the room out to somebody else. He does this to people who booked their rooms through services like Expedia so they have to go through them if they want a refund. And he leaves the front desk employees to deal with the understandably angry hotel guests—he won’t talk to them himself, and gets on our cases if we call him about it.
On a side note—we were supposed to have gotten paid at the restaurant job yesterday, but apparently there was some screw-up with UPS, so we will not get our `money until Monday. Sigh. This is how workers get treated here in Kentucky.
Anyway, I am now looking for a job to replace the hotel job. I was on the midnight shift before, and that was miserable. My Friday shift at the healthcare job ends at 12 pm, so something on an afternoon shift Friday, Saturday, and Sunday would work out, and I would be able to go home and sleep a little before going to the next job.
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