This is an update on my previous post from last week:
Hey all! I just wanted to thank all of you for your wonderful support last week.
I listened to the advice on here. I got a lawyer. I submitted a complaint with the labor board. I resigned. I told them to just contact my lawyer.
They sent me emails from lawyers in Texas (not my state). They sent me pages from the handbook that said I owed them. They lost a good employee.
My lawyer was right, they didn’t pay me right, and when confronted about their reasoning they said they wouldn’t sue. He had a few pages of math written out in his office, and it showed that their math was flawed to my fault of 20k. It has been a relief and now I can move on to the next job, hopefully with some decent folks like the ones helping on here.
One thing I learned right after speaking to my lawyer is that an employee handbook usually says that it is not a contract in the first paragraph, so keep that in mind whenever a manager tries to enforce a policy on you. It usually says that in the first darn sentence.
Keep the faith. Things are changing. With our attitude we might all end up somewhere nice and pleasant, if the world don’t blow up before then.
Thank you all