How the fuck is that legal?

What Aimee said. And ita. That's just...I just...I have no words.

Or an employment lawyer? I wish I was one, because that's outrageous.

Katie Bee! The Hell! I can't even find words. Huh? But I bet your house smells good.

Odd small world thing. The accident in Miami yesterday continues to bother me, but today I found out that a guy I work with knew one of the passengers. Just casual a acquantance. He had dinner with the guy and his wife over the summer. She was a couple months pregnant and they had a 3 year old. The husband took off on the Chalks flight yesterday with his father and FIL for a quick fishing trip to the Bahamas. This poor woman, now 8 months pregnant has lost her husband, her father, and her father-in law. Damn.

Oh you bet I do want some help from the Bitches. I plan to have great fun writing the best scathing letter ever before I get around to thinking about editing and sending.

I have no idea if it's legal, but they subtracted the $ from my final paycheck, which is dated the day after I left, so they didn't wait around too much on that one.

I feel kinda guilty complaining about it, though, especially with all the awful stuff that's happened to other people lately. Maybe I should blame this on someone.

I can't imagine how they can just take it back! I'd take them to small claims court. It's not like it was an advance on pay they deducted.

So, wait. They asked for the $ back, you wrote them a check, and they STILL took $ out of your final paycheck?

Also, how is what they did even appropriate? As it is, I think it's dicey to give your employee a bonus and tell them what they're required to spend it on. But then to tell you *after* you'd shopped that you went to the "wrong" stores?

*Maybe* if you were a nurse, and needed a uniform, and they gave you a uniform allowance, and told you to shop at Uniform World, and you spent it at Pasties R Us -- that might be grounds for them to bitch. (You aren't, right? And you didn't....right?)

Katie Bee, I would also think that some local news stations might be interested in some examples of outrageous behavior around holiday time.

The funds were for Professional Clothes for the office, since I look like I "don't have the money for nice clothes." Ouch. I am a disreputable tatterdemalion. Even when I wear my new black and white skirt suit and elegant black wool coat to the office, it seems. I only WISH I'd spent the money on Ramones jeans and a leather jacket. And had my hair dyed pink, too.

The funds were for Professional Clothes for the office, since I look like I "don't have the money for nice clothes."

So, was it presented as a bonus, or were you explicitly told that you had to take the money and buy work clothes with it? It sounds like the latter, but I wanted to be sure. If it is, that's no kind of "bonus," in my opinion.

Even if they didn't accept your decision on "Professional Clothes" it doesn't justify taking the money back! That is just all kinds of wrong.

(Thinks about what I wore to work today. Orange shorts, tropical shirt, sneakers. Professional enough for me. I wore a bra.)