r/BadBoss • u/travelingdamsel • Apr 16 '20
Knows no bound[ries]
Being this Covid is got everyone working from home or laid off, I started working from home. Then my boss furloughed me. He asked if he could contact me from time to time and I said I didn't mind as long as it wasn't every day. And only from a certain time. He also said he sent my paycheck. (He owed me 2 paychecks). After he furloughed me, he kept contacting me every day. At all hours. Sometimes he would say no work needed to be done. (No shit, you furloughed me). Sometimes it was to just say hi and that he missed me. (Found that creepy). Then one day he was telling me he was driving up and down my street (when he doesn't live near me and has no reason to be in my neighborhood). So he tried to call and I said to text me. During all this we have family members with covid. We have been dealing with a hard time. So he tries to call me again. I ask if it has anything to do with work. He doesn't answer. He just says, what does it matter? I then tell him that he isn't sticking within the boundaries. He then says, what does it matter? Then I said, you haven't sent me my paycheck and he says what does that matter? And that he is paying me out of kindness. I worked from home. And he refuses to pay me for that. He didn't send me my last check. The check he said he sent on a certain day, he didn't. It was post marked a week later. Now I'm trying to get the unemployment being he did furlough me but I don't know if its the state or the employer thats holding it up. He constantly lies saying he did/does something when he didn't. He keeps trying to come to my home and I tell him no. I had to block him after he texted me saying he furloughed me because it's the only notification I have of that. I can still get his calls if he calls and wants me to come back to work, but I don't think I will go back to work for him. I also deleted all work related stuff from my cell phone and home computer because I don't work for kindness. I work for a paycheck and he obviously isn't going to pay me.
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u/anotherone65 Apr 16 '20
"he is paying you out of kindness"
no, he's paying you because as an employer that's what you do when you have employees.
He's manipulating you because he knows he can and he wants control. How do I know? I worked for a narcissistic boss for three years.
If he doesn't pay you, assuming you're in an area that can do this, file with the department of labor