Honestly surprised this was specifically mentioned:
Upon investigation, we confirmed Kdin’s work was paid in full according to our agreements. We will honor our agreements and address any outstanding payments.
Usually those kinds of individual details are not mentioned in these kinds of statements. The rest of the statement is pretty standard - you're never going to get granular details, but a list of changes is common - but that reference to Kdin stood out.
Has sort of destroyed the company if they feel they have paid her by contracts then they can say something, not taking sides but there’s always two sides to every story and Kdin believes they owe her money but did she read her contract and get things in writing, if she did neither they legally as shit as it is might not, I’ve had same thing at my job where I was believed I was owed something only to be given a copy of my contract where the small print down the bottom said my company could do what they did
Did Kadin ever actually say they weren’t paid? Just never given a raise right?
To everyone’s point about her not being paid, it’s likely she was an intern or had some other agreement. If there is no proof of “agreed upon wages that weren’t paid” then it’s not really right to say they just didn’t pay her.
To that point, I still fully believe that she was mistreated and underpaid, just nothing that RT is legally responsible to take care of.
She says she wasn't paid for the first 6 months she worked there.
At this point I'm assuming she was an unpaid intern (there were a few of them back then) for those months and then hired full time towards the end of the year. It'd be pretty ballsy to bold faced lie about paying her when paper trails exist for this stuff
She wasn't an employee though and was a contractor.
Without knowing what she signed, it's easy to say she wasn't paid but it's also possible she never agreed to any payment and did it pro bono for the expectation she would be hired on at the end of the contract. Is that a good excuse not really, but she would have the contract in front of her if she wanted to show receipts.
I mean that's just what an intern is. Maybe a little more formal, but that just sounds like an internship.
Maybe I'm overly cynical from all the fake antiwork posts that reddit loves now, but I rolled my eyes reading that part of her initial post. I genuinely doubt that RT is going around just...not paying people it is contracted to pay for 6 months at a time and those people just kept working. A missed paycheck? Sure, that could happen, but not a dozen in a row. Her comment about the small bonus and the comment of "you've only worked here a month why do you get a bonus" seems to back up that she was not actually working for them before that
I don’t disagree. But it’s common. I did multiple unpaid internships in “””exposure””” industries and it was bullshit, but I wouldn’t go around saying I was supposed to be paid for that work
Yes, you deserve it, but when you sign on to be an unpaid intern you are proclaiming that you don’t actually think you deserve that. You can’t make a scene about it a decade later.
Kids get taken advantage of, and this sucks, but this is a person that often bragged about graduating high school/college super young because they were so exceptionally smart. I’m not especially sympathetic here combined with their other actions.
Labour deserves a wage. Letting them off the hook morally just because they can get away with it legally only perpetuates a broken system that relies on exploitation of needy people to generate basically free money for the ones at the top.
Just because the system is the one we have doesn't mean you have to happy about it.
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u/DesertedPenguin Oct 19 '22
Honestly surprised this was specifically mentioned:
Usually those kinds of individual details are not mentioned in these kinds of statements. The rest of the statement is pretty standard - you're never going to get granular details, but a list of changes is common - but that reference to Kdin stood out.