I’ve been seeing this theme for a while of threatening employers with IRS, Department of Labor, etc etc and I keep seeing people saying to just report them instead.
I understand why a person would threaten this; it’s very rewarding to feel we have the upper hand for once against the tyranny of bad employers. That, and, it’s hard to actually go through with the act of reporting or whatever. We tend to think through that empathy of “I want to give them a second chance…”
The time for second chances is over.
It’s time to start reporting these employers immediately when they steal your wages, discriminate against you, deny your earned time off, ask illegal questions/tasks of you, whatever it is- report them!
If money is the only thing these people and companies care about, then it will only be when their money is hit will they change.
We have a group of people all frustrated by what has happened to them by bad employers, so it is time to not threaten anymore.
It is time to report them.
Every. Single. Time.