This happened a lot of years ago, but, I saw a recent post that reminded me of this story. It's not relevant enough to post for me to make a comment there, but I kind of want to b**** about it, so here we are.
I was a truck driver, and my first company sent me mostly up and down the Eastern seaboard. I have pretty bad adhd, and paperwork is definitely not my thing but my company came to me several times with notifications that I had forgotten to submit a trip. How they figured this out, I don't know, it might be due to the mileage on my odometer, it might be due to them having access to my dispatchers, but whatever method they used seemed pretty fool proof.
Every time they told me that it looked like I missed a trip, I found the trip.
I was then paid out for it, and everything was good. Until one day comes down I was no stranger to taking a detour of a couple to a few miles in order to visit a place that I needed to visit. One of those visits is a Walmart that is very truck for me, and also had Rain-X windshield washer fluid for ridiculously cheap.
Detouring off the highway to get there, and then getting back to the highway is maybe, maybe a 10 mile detour.
I also don't drive past there very often, so any chance I got, I would make the trip, and buy pretty much all of their Rain-X, toss it in my jockey box, and move on.
Anyways, operations came to me one day to ask me about my mileage discrepancies, showing me a mileage discrepancy of several hundred miles. When he asked me what I thought that looked like, I admitted to him that I make side trips sometimes, but those don't account for several hundred miles worth of travel.
I told him that it looked like he owed me for another trip. He said that he didn't think that's the way it should work. I agreed, but operations is pretty good at catching trips that I've missed, and asking for that one in particular.
Anyways, I'm pretty sure that's the reason we parted ways with each other, but about 8 months later, I found the missing trip paperwork in a pile of paperwork that had gotten away and lost. I found this paperwork, scanned it in, delivered it to payroll and operations and was told that it has been too long, and that they would not pay me for the work that I've done.
I realize now that I should have gone to the labor board, or at least come here at the time, but it has been well more than 7 years, statute of limitations, since this happened, and I don't think I have any recourse.
Anyways, I'm glad I had to wake up my payroll guy several times in the middle of the night in order to get a release code for these special checks that we had in order to pay lumpers / swampers / laborers to unload my truck in the middle of the night.
Note about these checks, they were secured, I can't remember what they're called, but in order to use one, I had to wake up somebody from payroll, he had to get up and log in and do all kinds of stuff in order to approve it, and the laborers who unloaded my truck at like 3:00 a.m. all got paid, actually pretty well, and I'm honestly just glad that I got to call him many times and wake him up in the middle of the night. I hope he still can't sleep at night.
Anyways, not really looking for advice on the topic, since it was about 12 years ago, and I mostly just wanted to b**** and vent.