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Any advice about ex-employers not sending final checks/W2s?
14 years ago
Because yeah.
I left my work in November of last year because I had moved. All seemed good, right? Well, around January, I called to make sure they had my new address, so they could send my W2s and my final check.
They claimed they no longer had my W2 from 2009-2010.. which I find suspicious, since they are legally required to keep records of those for, I think, three to five years. They claimed that they don't keep them past the tax season they're for...
So, whatever, I only worked like two months that year anyway.
So, I eventually get my W2 from last year, so no problem, right? Until the roommate in the apartment moves away, and we clean up what's left, and my W2 is gone.
No problem, no problem. I call my employer up, because I still hadn't gotten my check, and request the replacement W2 and find out about the check.
They claim they mailed the check and it had been cashed. I told them that I hadn't gotten it, so it wasn't me.
So, they threaten to take off fees for cancelling that check, fees for printing a new one, fees for mailing, etc.
So I think, whatever. I explain that I need my replacement W2, and they start going on about how busy they are and how they "don't know when they can get it to me". What-evs, I'll wait. This is all in February.
March flies through, I'm calling every couple weeks to check up. I request they mail this check registered mail, and they -agree- to do so, at my expense. I'm like, sure. You're already taking money out for this other ridiculous shit anyway.
April comes, and around April 1st, I realize it probably won't be there by the time taxes come around, so I file for an extension. Fucking lucky choice, that was. It never came.
Now here I am, mid-MAY, after calling every other week to check, and I finally got off the phone with the owner of the place I worked.
He claims to have mailed my check and W2, again.
I haven't seen hide nor hair of it.
I ask if he mailed it Registered mail, like I'd requested....
No. No, he hadn't. Because it was "too expensive" and he "wasn't going to pay it."
FUCK. FUCK FUCK FUCKITTY FUCKFUCKFUCK.
I'm not even sure he sent anything in the first place now. >:/
What do I do from here? I just tried calling the Department of Labor, but they're not answering.
I left my work in November of last year because I had moved. All seemed good, right? Well, around January, I called to make sure they had my new address, so they could send my W2s and my final check.
They claimed they no longer had my W2 from 2009-2010.. which I find suspicious, since they are legally required to keep records of those for, I think, three to five years. They claimed that they don't keep them past the tax season they're for...
So, whatever, I only worked like two months that year anyway.
So, I eventually get my W2 from last year, so no problem, right? Until the roommate in the apartment moves away, and we clean up what's left, and my W2 is gone.
No problem, no problem. I call my employer up, because I still hadn't gotten my check, and request the replacement W2 and find out about the check.
They claim they mailed the check and it had been cashed. I told them that I hadn't gotten it, so it wasn't me.
So, they threaten to take off fees for cancelling that check, fees for printing a new one, fees for mailing, etc.
So I think, whatever. I explain that I need my replacement W2, and they start going on about how busy they are and how they "don't know when they can get it to me". What-evs, I'll wait. This is all in February.
March flies through, I'm calling every couple weeks to check up. I request they mail this check registered mail, and they -agree- to do so, at my expense. I'm like, sure. You're already taking money out for this other ridiculous shit anyway.
April comes, and around April 1st, I realize it probably won't be there by the time taxes come around, so I file for an extension. Fucking lucky choice, that was. It never came.
Now here I am, mid-MAY, after calling every other week to check, and I finally got off the phone with the owner of the place I worked.
He claims to have mailed my check and W2, again.
I haven't seen hide nor hair of it.
I ask if he mailed it Registered mail, like I'd requested....
No. No, he hadn't. Because it was "too expensive" and he "wasn't going to pay it."
FUCK. FUCK FUCK FUCKITTY FUCKFUCKFUCK.
I'm not even sure he sent anything in the first place now. >:/
What do I do from here? I just tried calling the Department of Labor, but they're not answering.
nayoko_Ventila
~nayokoventila
Look up on google to the Better Business Bureau , call them up and they will fight for you or punish the company for being incompetent, they are a group completely built around law functionality and getting businesses to follow said laws. I believe they are your best bet, and i usually tell my customers about them before they go into sprint stores, because i hate sprint stores. >.> (i work in a sprint call center)
Roc_Wulf
~rocwulf
OP
All I can really get out of their website is that I must have been a consumer, or leave them a message on their site and they might get back to me if it's relevant. :/
nayoko_Ventila
~nayokoventila
trying to find the number, what city do you live in?
Roc_Wulf
~rocwulf
OP
I live in an entirely different city, on the other side of the US from where the place I was employed is.
nayoko_Ventila
~nayokoventila
yes but i need to know your city, so i can look up the number for the bbb you worked at.
nayoko_Ventila
~nayokoventila
not worked at, to see which one you need to call~
Roc_Wulf
~rocwulf
OP
I worked in Huntsville, AL
nayoko_Ventila
~nayokoventila
Here, sorry i got really busy, this should help http://www.wikihow.com/Contact-Bett.....usiness-Bureau
Roc_Wulf
~rocwulf
OP
Problem - No email was available, and there are no phone numbers for me to contact on their site.
nayoko_Ventila
~nayokoventila
when you look up the city? it's a possibility that they arent available in your area. try looking in the city where you used to work.
Roc_Wulf
~rocwulf
OP
I did. Since it was in Alabama, I have to file the complaints within the Alabama's DoL or BBB. BBB of North Alabama doesn't have a phone number, and the DoL wouldn't take my calls.
Flash_Adalwolf
~flashadalwolf
sue?
Roc_Wulf
~rocwulf
OP
I don't have the money to do that. I don't even have the money to drive down there to go to small claims court, which is where it would be handled, to fight this kind of battle.
