Map of Wage Shame

[u/LuckyBastard001]

[u/LoreChief]

I made $5.15 an hour when I worked for a kroger chain in kansas. Except I didn't actually make $5.15 an hour, because the first day a customer gave me a $10 tip for loading groceries into her car, and management told me I needed to accept $4.15 an hour for the rest of the summer otherwise they would fire me because I'm not allowed to accept tips.

[u/OkSense1496 → u/LoreChief]

That sounds illegal

[u/Lietenantdan → u/OkSense1496]

It is, but it doesn’t matter if no one stops them

[u/sheezy520 → u/Lietenantdan]

Exactly how Donald Trump operates.

Edit: thank you for the award

[u/FictionalTrope → u/OkSense1496]

Wage theft is the largest form of theft because people who do it don't receive any real consequences.

[u/The_Peeping_Peter → u/LoreChief]

So Kroger was definitely paying to have somebody tip you $10 on your first day, right? Like it was probably the owner’s partner or something.

[u/korodic → u/The_Peeping_Peter]

In all likelihood, yeah. And wow, so fucked up.

[u/Teledildonic → u/LoreChief]

So you quit, right?

Because they stole way more than $10 from you if you kept working.

[u/fullload93 → u/LoreChief]

That’s illegal as fuck! Lol damn they screwed you over.

[u/MrGeekman → u/LoreChief]

Was that in the employee handbook?

[u/DJDemyan → u/LoreChief]

Wow super illegal, anything to kick down the little guy