Started work at a job that required me to buy a laptop from them. Up front they gave me two options to pay for it. Option one: give them $500 down and then two payments of $250 off my paychecks. Option two is skip my first two paychecks to pay for it. Coming from a paycheck to paycheck job I told them that no option was really viable for me as I couldn't afford to do either. They said they would talk to HR to figure out a new plan and run it by me. Cut to two weeks later, I pay my bills and check my bank account to find $8 for a week. My boss claims HR was supposed to run it by me and forgot. With a 9 month old and wife to care for $8 puts me in a spot where if anything were to happen I would be completely incapable of caring for them. Their best compensation was to pay for the gas to get me to work since I can't afford to fill my gas tank. I don't even know how to handle this or approach it without risking losing my family's only source of income.