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Suing for Overtime?
An unidentified submitter asks: "There is a federal law that requires all non programmer-type jobs be compensated for overtime. Last year, over the course of a year, I have worked 500 hours of overtime without comp time, bonus, or paid overtime. I have since left the company, and currently I am attempting to sue the company for lost wages. Has anyone ever been in a similar situation, and do they have any advice/tips? Also is anyone aware of good computer/IT labor attorneys?"
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Just one more example of CmdrTaco and his crew reposting the same article. Happens all the time...
.. Say 'Listen, [insert expletive or name. I suggest 'Jackhole'], I've got 502.75 hours of unpaid overtime. Documented. You raked my ass over the coals with a [layoff/firing/downsizing], and the way State law figures, you owe me $5.71 million in cash and valuable prizes.
Do you want to continue being a [expletive/jackhole], and pay a bloodsucking shark so I can just wring it out of your dying corporate corpse with interest anyway, or do you want to simply pay me 4.67 million and toss in a used Maserati so I won't open a can off class action whoopass on you?
I know Bob in Networking had 747.14 hours of overtime last year, and I'm sure he could use a quality used Lotus instead of putting a new alternator in his Camry. Do you want me to call Bob? Or Gina, in Support?
Or Alfie, the whacko that peed in the punch bowl and groped the VP after four vodka tonics at the company party? He's just gotten out of the rubber room the layoff put him in, I'm sure he'll consult with his friend Old Kentucky Shark and drop by looking to have a good time in his old cubicle after I tell him you owe him three Porsche and a Mercedes, plus whatever is behind door number three in Today's Showcase.. I think he left a back door in the accounting system..
Oh, no.. You [expletives/jackholes, perhaps now is a time to throw in 'asshats'] shouldn't take this as a threat. I'm not threatening anything! How do I know if I'll push some of your psychotic disgruntled ex-employees over the edge? How am I an expert on what the courts will do when Lisa, who wrote your new property management system in her free time, and I'm sure would love to know she still owns it because you dumbasses never made her sign the IP agreement, sues you?
We're all reasonable people here.. Just give me what you owe me, before I beat it out of your cold, lifeless body with a pitchfork wielding lawyer, and then set the pack of dogs on you.
.sig: Now legally binding!