I quit yesterday morning at 10am because I was promised 40 hours and week by week I was getting told to come in late or my schedule was being cut by several hours with barely a days notice.
I only took this job because I they said I’d get the full time hours I needed to pay for my own bills and a caregiver for my grandma. Them cutting hours started to affect mine and her livelihood so I had to quit immediately to make up for the time the caregiving hours the state gives her didn’t cover.
It hasn’t even been 48 hours and I receive this email.
“I’ve made two requests via text message for you to return your key and fob and you have yet to respond or bring them back. If we do not receive them by tomorrow morning we will have to change our locks and I will have to bill you for the full cost of that service plus my time for coordinating it.”
Is this legal? I never signed anything that I would get charged for not returning the key upon quitting within a certain amount of time. The last girl to leave took over 2 weeks to return hers and never even was messaged about it, but of course I get special treatment.
I was going to mail it tomorrow because that’s when my grandma has other caregiver coverage and I have time to do so, and I really don’t feel comfortable returning the key in person after his response to my initial text that I was quitting.
I also can’t afford to have some giant bill or have anything taken out of my final paycheck? Any advice? Will I be okay just mailing the key tomorrow and letting him know I did? I really don’t want to have to fight a charge to change the locks against a millionaire who has the free time to do so.
I am in Washington State if any laws around that exist. Thanks friends.