In Momma's World

The last month and a half has been out.of.control!!!

Beyond!

There has been yelling, crying, cusing, hang up's on the phone, more yelling, calm discussions, calls on my personal cell phone from boss man on my days off, lawyers, accountants, BOLI, Fed's, IRS, evvvvvverybody. Almost on a daily basis.

At the beginning of August 2010 I got a call at work from the Oregon Bureau of Wage and Hour Labor Board.

Oh shit!

They asked allllll sorts of questions about my work hours/days/years/pay etc...

I TOLD THE TRUTH.

Next day the Federal Bureau of Labor called.

Uhhh Ohhhhh..........

Long story short, my boss got busted. BADLY!

It seems the pay he has payed not only to me, but all of his employees in all his buisnesses, has been wrong.

WAY wrong!

The Fed's are going back 6 years. Aug 2004. They want anwsers and they also want their money. They want their money now.

So all of this time I have been MAJOR STRESSED. I have 4 employees under me to worry about. Are we going to lose our jobs now? What is my boss going to do? He has to come up with ALOT of back pay owed to all the employees. Plus, pay all of us the correct pay from now on in which he said he just can't afford to do.

None of us knew the pay we were getting was wrong. I never knew there was no such thing as "shift pay".

My boss said he was going to: Quote: "suicide himself".

I talked him down from that and called his wife to tell her what he just said to two of his employees and my Hubby.

He seems to be better now and I think he has come to terms with this "error" on his part and is willing to make it right.

The past few weeks i've had to dig through paperwork for all my employees going back 6 years. Every timecard, schedual, W-2, everything to help the accountant determine what we should of been paid.

STRESSFULL is an understatement! Seriously!

So last week the State determined that it is going to be almost impossible to determine the exact amount due to all the employees. Exact numbers would take yeaaaaars to determine. Impossible really.

Now were at the point of a settlement. I hired a math wiz/accountant to help me determine what we are due.

Thank God i'm a pack rat and have every time card and schedual for everyone for the past 7 years that i've been here. Makes it a tad bit easier for me to get some estimates.

This is just a big mess!! A stressful big mess!

It's hard to sleep. Hard to eat right. Hard to be a fun fun Momma to the girls. Hard to just function.

As of today, no calls from the boss man or anyone else. Thank God for Saturday's LOL. I had to miss the Buddy Walk b/c of this crap. Piss me off!!

I Pray we all get our settlement swiftly. I Pray we all keep our jobs. I Pray we all get to keep the scheduals we've had for the past 4 years. I Pray for my boss's sanity through this time. I Pray for his kids and wife too. I also Pray for my sanity. I Pray this is OVER soon!!

God does not shut a door without opening a window.