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If a company has provided you with equipment, when you quit, sm - Nervous MT

Posted: Oct 27, 2014

do they hold your final check until they receive the equipment? My payday is supposed to be Friday and they were supposed to send me the tags to send back the equipment, but I have not received them yet, and I am thinking I will maybe not be paid on Friday if they have not received the equipment. TIA

Sending equipment back - Anon

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No, they won't hold your last paycheck, surprisingly. I thought they might too, but I'm still waiting for a box to send my PCU back, got the tags about a week or so after I left, still waiting for the box 3 weeks later...

I worked for a company that did hold final pay - until they received their equipment back.

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Depends on the company - SM

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Different companies have different policies. Sorry, but if you don't name the company, there is no way anyone can answer your question.

It is Synernet. I could just call HR but I honestly hope to have nothing nm - more to do with them ever

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DC is an absolute witch when it comes to returning equipment - sm

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She will claim they did not get it and then (I got an attorney and that scared her) she admitted they had it. I was told by her my pay would be withheld or they would take further action. That is when I got an attorney. She is a real chicken BLEEP!

She told me they would send Fed Ex tags -- I would think that sm - Nervous MT

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would prove tracking information that proved they had it. You're scaring me now. My pay is pitiful but I would like to have it. Thanks for sharing.

DC is not a witch. She has always been very helpful - MT

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and polite to me when I've had a question or problem. You should call her again to see what the problem is and ask her about your paycheck. I think whoever had trouble with her says more about them than her. Just my experience.

I never called anyone a witch. I have no issues with DC. I am just - Nervous MT

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glad to be gone. I merely asked if anyone had any experience with this. Obviously, the other poster had a bad experience and I certainly hope mine is not a bad one as well. I'm still waiting to receive the paperwork she promised so I could ship the equipment back, although I'd be happy to send it back on my own. I just do not want my check held up. As small and pitiful as it is, I need it.

You will see - nm

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Fed Ex Tags - sm

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They will send a Fed Ex label. If you return the equipment another way, it can't be tracked. Tags arrive about a week after your last day. They won't attach your pay as it's illegal.

That is a relief -- thank you. I figured since you had something of their property, sm - Nervous MT

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they were within their rights to hold your pay as collateral (or whatever the word is that I want) until they got their equipment back. With rent due soon and a few unexpected expenses, it would cause a hardship if I had to wait until they received it.

Maine state law says they must pay you on the next pay date sm - HTH

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after your termination. There is no exclusion that I could see that they could make you wait until they receive their equipment. That being said, I think I would just send it back to them with a tracking number and be done with it. Why they think anyone could want to keep that clunky old Thin Client is beyond me. I am thinking of leaving too, so I have done a little research into the laws. Good luck.

Did you get paid? - Happy MT

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How long did you work for them?

Yes, thank goodness -- worried for nothing. :-) sm - Not so nervous MT

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I was there a little over 2 years.

2 years!? - Happy MT

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Wow....why did you leave?

Short answer is I found a better job. And I had not been sm - Also a happy MT now

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happy for quite awhile. I try not to badmouth my former employers, so I probably should just leave it at that. Things changed, and not for the better, at least not for me, and I got tired of being miserable every day, dreading the time I had to punch in and start my shift. We spend too much time at our jobs to stay at something that makes us feel rotten, at least that's my opinion.

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