Hey y’all, so some time in 2022 I got hired at a small business as a seamstress. A couple months in I talked to a coworker about pay and they reported it to my boss who gave me a verbal warning about discussing pay because we have a policy about not discussing them. Well I know that’s hella illegal but never reported it because this job treated me really well.
Except now im dealing with the owner who doubles as HR just being petty with the time clock and PTO. It’s really ridiculous and I’ve had some abusive jobs. Basically now if I’m 5 minutes late or leave two minutes early because I’m don’t with my work, they take that from my PTO. So that adds to 30 min this week, 25 the next ect. I can’t just run the clock for two minutes because they consider any inactivity time theft. Even if you just clock in and set your lunch box in the fridge while on the clock. It takes literally 1 minute in the small space.
Everything else is great. I had a lot of flexibility early on which I needed due to chronic illnesses and now with the restrictions it feels like I’m set up to fail and it’s frustrating. Honestly want to get back at them and was considering reporting their very illegal policy several times out of spite but also because I know this policy is wrong. Does anyone know the kind of trouble they would get into? I don’t want to put them out of business or anything, just taken off their boomer high horses a bit like bruh you are over there doing illegal shit. We are having the best financial year ever and y’all decided to start micromanaging.
Also they have government agency contracts so that’s a huge no thoughts?