Last month, I hastily accepted a job offer under what turned out to be false pretenses. Job ad listed salary as $55-60k. Verbal offer of $23/hour, work hours 7:30am-5pm with 1 hour lunch plus two 15-min breaks.
Once on-site, I was told 30 minute lunch break was automatically deducted from pay and implied that taking the break was “optional”.
It was also implied that the working hours, after training, would be 6am-6pm.
Then I came across a section of the employee handbook that stated any employee caught discussing wages/salary would be terminated. Which is very illegal in IL, where I’m at.
I quit after a week. In addition to all of the red flags mentioned above, my supervisor was planning to send me out of state for training (which I was also told was “optional” during the interview). My team leader took it upon himself to choose another name to call me, since there was another “thebat” on the team, and ignored my requests and suggestions on what I would prefer to be called.
I put all of that plus PDF files of the handbook, job ad, and my offer letter to the IL Department of Labor. I anxiously await a reply. Thanks to all here and on the various job subs for encouraging me to take action!!