Patience is Lame

The world would be a miserably boring place if everyone were patient; it would be all nice and polite and gross. Nobody would ever have the guts to do anything for themselves. I’m gonna tell you a story of my stupidity in being too patient with the wrong people. I’ve been working at this one place that will remain nameless but its a small family owned business and ive been working there almost a year now around the start of April I worked a good amount one week about half an hour short of the max I can work since I was still in school I was super excited for a huge paycheck since I was buying my car that week and was maybe a little short because im really bad at saving money listen I had to finish my commander deck it was of utmost importance I might be addicted to magic cards but thats unimportant what is important was that when i recieved my paycheck it was short and im not talking like half an hour it was 6 full hours short they said I only worked 17 hours flat when I know I worked alot more but you know what i thought maybe i had made a mistake ill go in and check my time card next time I work and ill make sure I had a previous paycheck from last week laying around that I was gonna check as well because it was weirdly 16 hours on the dot both were exact hours like it was rounded or something when I went in I took a picture of my time card and did the math when i got home and low and behold I was right on the week they only payed me for 17 hours i had worked 23 hours and 27 minutes same with the previous week I worked 16 hours 57 minutes and they only payed me for 16 they completly rounded down while doing the math i figured out they decided to only pay me for the full hours I worked instead of the actual time I worked stupidly i hadn’t kept my old paystubs so I don’t know how long this has been going on for and how many free hours ive worked for them So I texted my boss about it and she kind of brushed it off saying that it must have been an accounting error from the company they go through but thats complete bs every friday morning ive seen her do the accounting for the paychecks there legitamtly business checks they come directly from her! I was so devastated in this moment that it felt as if an anchor fell into my stomach. I felt like I couldn’t think straight.

I mean why dude like its a family business and your screwing over at the time a 17 year old like whats wrong with you they pay me minimum wage its not like there paying me 18 an hour its awful they understaff the shifts and then complain when we can’t handle how busy we get, but even with how mad I was guess the stupid decsion i made instead of quiting and reporting them to the better busniness bureo I waited patiently for a reply so long in fact that I got my next paycheck which guess what was short another 2 hours then finally they got back to me and said the accounting firm made a mistake and they only paid me 75% of the hours i was fully owed and didn’t even pay me for the hours I was missing on the newest paycheck. What is also weird is that if you go through an accounting firm, you have to send them the hours the employee worked. Unless it’s a really crappy accountant, I feel like they should be able to do simple payroll for like 8 employees of a small business without messing up.

I’ll never really know for sure what happened. Still, honestly with how they treat the employees there I can make an assumpition and when I thought about how I don’t know how long theyve been screwing me over how many hours of my life wasted there working for free It just makes me feel hopless because like I know these people it’s not like target is screwing me over its someone like real and tangabile that would screw over a 17 year olf for what like maybe a grand. You know what’s crazy is I’m still working there, I haven’t quit yet, because I feel bad I’m leaving my coworkers behind, and maybe if I’m patient enough, they’ll change to be better people. I know it’s not true, but it never hurts to hope, I guess. Well, the moral of the story is don’t be as dumb as I am and don’t do Crack or something.

“Wonder Woman Loses Her Patience” by Han Shot First is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0.