I am highly, so very highly disappointed in Fred Meyers and their parent company, Kroger.
Here’s why.
Two weeks ago was my last day working for Fred Meyers. Up till then I had put up with backhanded discrimination from a former manager, horrible hours and pretty poor pay. I smiled, came into work and did my job, and did it well, I like to think. No one really ever told me different, or well…anything really. But that’s something else entirely.
No, what has me upset, and angry? The fact that a company that I trusted to handle payroll both fairly and timely did not. It’s been 4 weeks since I handed in my 2 week notice - I haven’t worked for Fred Meyer or it’s parent company, Kroger in 2 weeks.
I still have not gotten my last paycheck.
Let me bold this: In two weeks that I have not worked for Fred Meyers, I have not received my final paycheck.
By Alaska state law, I should have. I gave them extra time, telling myself, that it’s been a hectic couple of weeks at store 018. I’ll give some time, make sure everything got filled and whatnot.
Today I finally called to ask what was going on. In three conversations with three different people - Store Manager, HR Dept, and Home Dept Manager, I got three stories. It wasn’t until I made the decision to call the Dept of Labor to file paperwork that I was told my check would be sent - on Tuesday. From Oregon.
Now I’m really upset. From the conversation I had with the HR, I firmly beleive that had I not called to ask, I would never have recieved my final paycheck.
Consider this a warning for all who want to work for Fred Meyers OR Kroger: They will attempt to not pay your final paycheck, and give you story after story why it’s not in your hands.
And why should they if they think they can get away with it? Well not from me. If that paycheck isn’t in my mailbox on Tuesday morning like 018’s HR dept has promised me? I have filled out my Dept of Labor complaint and am mailing it today.
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This Is All Kinds Of Wrong of the Day: Dharun Ravi, the former Rutgers roommate of Tyler Clementi, was sentenced to just 30 days in jail today after being found guilty of invasion of privacy, bias intimidation, evidence tampering, and other counts for using a webcam to tape Clementi having sex with another man. Clementi jumped to his death from the George Washington Bridge in September 2010, just days after he learned of the video and an accompanying Twitter feed.
Judge Glenn Berman’s lectured Ravi before announcing the relatively light sentence: “You lied to your roommate who placed his trust in you without any conditions, and you violated it. I haven’t heard you apologize once.” Ravi had faced up to 10 years.
In addition to his jail term, Ravi was ordered to complete 300 hours of community service; attend a counseling program for cyberbullying and alternative lifestyles; pay $10,000 to a group that helps victims of bias crimes; and serve a three-year probation sentence. Prosecutors plan to appeal.
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Speaking as someone who was bullied into leaving the public school system not once, but twice during Middle and High School, he deserved more then this pathetic sentence. He could have stopped what he was doing at any given time.
He could have stopped.
He didn’t.
He chose to keep going, and in the end, his actions led to a death. I have no sympathy for him, having been in his victim, yes victim, because that is exactly who Tyler Clementi was to him, shoes once.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4dwtwgfSI1qzpwi0o1_500.jpg)
