'They Owe Me': Bartender Complains About Wage Theft By Boss, Chats Go Viral

Imagine a boss taking away an employee’s hard-earned money. It sounds outrageous, but unfortunately, one Redditor found themselves in this exact situation. Yes, you read that right! Taking to the ‘Anti Work’ subreddit, a user known as @Lemonloid shared their shocking experience of catching their boss in the act of wage theft. They didn’t just tell their story; they backed it up with screenshots of their conversation with the boss.

“I work for a very well-known corporation as a server/bartender. My shift usually starts at 4:00 pm,” they began. But here’s the catch: they don’t get paid for the first 15 minutes of their shift. “The time clock rounds my hours to 15-minute intervals. If I clock in at 4:01, I don’t start getting paid until 4:15. If I clock in at 3:50 and start working immediately as expected, I don’t get paid for those first 10 minutes.”

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But that’s not all. They discovered that their pay was being cut even further when they clocked out. “I know if I clock out at 10:40 it doesn’t round to 10:45. It gets rounded down to 10:30. My general manager confirmed that over text. This means I lose up to 28 minutes in my wages every shift.” Frustrated, the OP remarked, “I know this is wage theft. They did not notify me that they changed the time clocks. When I was first employed, I was paid from when I clocked in to when I clocked out.” They realised they had been unaware of this rounding down for months and estimated they were owed hundreds of dollars in unpaid wages.

The screenshots they shared confirmed that their boss was aware of and admitted to the rounding practice.

“I’m planning to send these screen shots to the labour board but I’m not very hopeful anything will happen,” they concluded.

Since sharing, the post has gone viral, sparking reactions from the public. “In the modern era I’ll never understand how rounding is even still a thing with time clocks. At some point in history it might have been a logistics thing, but today it serves no other purpose except to scam workers,” commented one user.

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“You’re probably not the only one they’re shorting. Let your coworkers know, at the very least,” suggested another.