Boss withholds $700 check after employee quits with short notice, purposefully dodges his calls: 'My boss was clearly salty about me leaving'

It's always a little bit awkward to leave a job. You try your best to tie everything in a nice bow, but it's ultimately like a breakup. You're telling someone who you usually see all the time that you don't want to see them anymore. And it's awkward. You have to navigate it delicately or else things might backfire. The key thing to remember, though, is that when you're the employee, you're in the right. You have the right to leave your job whenever you want for whatever reason, and there's not much stink your employer can make about it.

That doesn't stop certain employers from trying to punish you for leaving, though. They might get petty and try to make you feel bad for something you should have never felt bad about. It's just in some people's nature to do that. That's what happened in this situation, to an extreme degree.

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Besides just getting at them emotionally, they got at them financially, which is even worse. What their employer did was almost certainly against the law, but the employee was unsure what kind of recourse they were going to be able to have. Read on for the story and see what you think.
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Boss Withheld My $700 Final Paycheck for 4 Months - Why Isn't This Considered Theft?

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