Worker gets written up for "unprofessional attitude" after asking why their paycheck was 2 weeks late: 'You don't need to come at me with that kind of tone'

We work to get paid; it's a pretty simple arrangement. No number of pizza parties or cheap token gifts is ever going to change that. Sure, pizza might make for a nice distraction on a Thursday afternoon, but it's never going to be a replacement for actual benefits and fair wages, no matter how many management books your boss reads that say otherwise. Pizza is nice, but it doesn't pay the rent.

The reality is that no one comes to work out of sheer loyalty, and if the necessary means for survival didn't depend on holding down a full-time job, or if the pay doesn't show up as arranged in return for your time, what's the point of spending your time there at all?

It is, of course, pretty fair to question just what the heck is going on when your pay is even a day late. At two weeks late, you have to find yourself wondering whether or not the business is having serious cash flow issues. Companies can and do go under all the time, with unpaid wages owed to their workers. But when this employee enquired with their boss about where their two-week late paycheck was, they were met with resistance, with their boss immediately calling into question their "tone" before being handed a formal warning a few hours later. The employee was left feeling dejected, with still no paycheck, wondering just what in the heck they were doing there.