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Also it seems it may be (although not clear from the information given) that originally she was simply fired for cause and not made to pay anything back. Then

Also it seems it may be (although not clear from the information given) that originally she was simply fired for cause and not made to pay anything back. Then she sued for wrongful termination and got that result. Because the first thing I thought was: What kind of petty employer sues for $2000 instead of just letting them go.

jonas21 4y ago
Yes, that's correct [1]. It's also worth noting that it was handled in small claims court where both parties represented themselves. [1] https://decisions.civilresolutionbc.ca/crt/crtd/en/item/523029/index.do https://decisions.civilresolutionbc.ca/crt/crtd/en/item/5230...
- msrenee 4y ago
  Reading the details of the civil suit completely changes the tone of this story. So she also owed ~$3k on the unforgiven portion of an advance from the company for her CPA course, which would have been fully forgiven after 24 months. They withheld her final ~$1800 paycheck due to that. So she was actually ~$1100 ahead and then decided to sue. It also looks like the 50 hours she billed that couldn't be accounted for occurred over 6 weeks or so. I really wanted to be upset with the company here, but it sounds like she shot herself in the foot.
  - tsuujin 4y ago
    > I really wanted to be upset with the company here, but it sounds like she shot herself in the foot. Both of these things can be valid at the same time. She was certainly technically in the wrong and made some questionable choices (with the huge caveat that it’s possible context we don’t have may change the story entirely), but I still think the company is overbearing to the point of absurdity. If she slacked off for 50 hours over 6 weeks, that’s like an hour and a half a day (which may not have been contiguous). I can’t think of a job I’ve ever had where I didn’t have an hour of down time a day on average. Even working crappy manual labor jobs I’m sure I dicked around with my coworkers for like an hour a day. She may be a bit on the high end there, but not so much that I wouldn’t have worked with her to correct it before firing her.
    - msrenee 4y ago
      Slacking off, as you call it, is part of working. What she did was claim to have worked on clients' files without having opened them. She didn't claim that a job had taken her six hours when it took her 5.5 plus some downtime. She claimed to have worked on accounts that she had barely perused the data for.

jonas21 4y ago

Yes, that's correct [1]. It's also worth noting that it was handled in small claims court where both parties represented themselves. [1] https://decisions.civilresolutionbc.ca/crt/crtd/en/item/523029/index.do https://decisions.civilresolutionbc.ca/crt/crtd/en/item/5230...

msrenee 4y ago
Reading the details of the civil suit completely changes the tone of this story. So she also owed ~$3k on the unforgiven portion of an advance from the company for her CPA course, which would have been fully forgiven after 24 months. They withheld her final ~$1800 paycheck due to that. So she was actually ~$1100 ahead and then decided to sue. It also looks like the 50 hours she billed that couldn't be accounted for occurred over 6 weeks or so. I really wanted to be upset with the company here, but it sounds like she shot herself in the foot.
- tsuujin 4y ago
  > I really wanted to be upset with the company here, but it sounds like she shot herself in the foot. Both of these things can be valid at the same time. She was certainly technically in the wrong and made some questionable choices (with the huge caveat that it’s possible context we don’t have may change the story entirely), but I still think the company is overbearing to the point of absurdity. If she slacked off for 50 hours over 6 weeks, that’s like an hour and a half a day (which may not have been contiguous). I can’t think of a job I’ve ever had where I didn’t have an hour of down time a day on average. Even working crappy manual labor jobs I’m sure I dicked around with my coworkers for like an hour a day. She may be a bit on the high end there, but not so much that I wouldn’t have worked with her to correct it before firing her.
  - msrenee 4y ago
    Slacking off, as you call it, is part of working. What she did was claim to have worked on clients' files without having opened them. She didn't claim that a job had taken her six hours when it took her 5.5 plus some downtime. She claimed to have worked on accounts that she had barely perused the data for.