Have you been burned by non-payment for your work -- STOP unethical bosses in their tracks! Speak up and share your story of non-payment by fraudulent employers. Together we can be heard!

1. WE all deserve to be PAID for our work
Posted by: Aimee Beck on: March 17, 2012
A freelancer, a salaried employee and an ego-maniacal business owner walk into a bar …
No joke.
Freelancing can be the most rewarding and the most frustrating work scenario you encounter.
Working from home, setting your own schedule, and choosing the assignments you want to tackle are
all great, but what happens when you do the work and don’t get paid? All hell breaks loose. I’ve been
there … more than once. Any freelancer who’s worked more than a handful of gigs probably has a
similar story. Sadly, it goes with the territory. It shouldn’t but it does.
Now here’s a different scenario — what happens when you’re a salaried employee and your boss
refuses to pay because you resigned? All hell breaks loose again. Assume you have a contract, but the
gig is simply not working out. Hypothetically speaking, maybe you just don’t gel with your new
coworkers, maybe the 4.5 hour daily commute is kicking your ass. Maybe your hypothetical new boss
is a severely insecure micro-managing control freak. Maybe he or she refused to give you a phone at
your desk so you couldn’t even speak to your clients. Maybe you got a better offer, or you suffered a
severe injury or family emergency. Maybe you simply decided to give it all up to fulfill your long lost
dream of becoming America’s next Idol.
The point I am trying to make is that whatever your reasons for quitting, they are yours and yours
alone. It is nobody’s business but yours. And (assuming you have fulfilled your part of the contract,
and have not broken any laws) there is no reason in the world that gives an employer the right to
withhold payment.
Rather than go on a rampage here (oh wait, it might be too late for that), I would like to open up this
discussion to anyone and everyone who has experienced a similar lack of respect for hard-working
freelancers and employees alike. We must band together if we are to expel these toxic, overbearing
ego-maniacs.
Please, share your story with us here. If not for ourselves, then for our successors, we must not
let this type of injustice prevail. Individually we are strong, but together we are unstoppable — a force
to be reckoned with!
Aimee