meeped at work!

There are federal and state statues that give you SOME rights.

I suggest checking into them and/or contacting an attorney who specializes in employment law.

As far as the laptop, well, thats a personal choice....of eBay or craigslist.

I say keep the laptop. It's probably the only form of reimbursement you're going to get for the last month. Seriously, what are the odds they go "whoops, here are your last two paychecks, sorry for this little glitch in service"?

Incidentally, the time to clear off your personal data was about 5 minutes after you first heard "we can't make payroll".

And the time to use that laptop to find a new job is right now.

afaik, you are required to be compensated for time you worked even if you work for an 'at will' state.

hope you retained timesheets. at the very minimum, try to archive all domeepents/emails created/worked on during those weeks.

i would consider lawyering up and cutting off communication with them.

definitely do not return the laptop. what are they going to do, fire you? if they want to pursue it, you're too busy looking for a job to help them out right now.

Illinois is a "right to work" state, so you have more recourse than most.

DO NOT return the laptop or cell. Hold them hostage until you get your meep.

You'll be employed again in no time.

Echo the other wise comments that preceeded this dribble. Keep the laptop. Keep whatever info you have on the company. Have all your proof lined up.

Contact a lawyer, like five minutes ago. Let them guide you from here.

Do not forget to keep dumbskull_naked.jpg on your newly acquired laptop to email with your next resume.

Good luck with job hunting!

Bummer to hear it DS.

Keep the Laptop, Return the Cell but Post the number here before you return it :)

that sux, my wife has been looking for a job for 3 months now... Hope you find something soon.

agree with everyone else, keep the laptop but give the phone back after you write the number in every bar bathroom stall you can.

sounds like they heard you coming and thought they'd take another one for a ride.

keep both laptop and cell, but sell the cell (hrm) on ebay or craigslist or even the meeping small ads of the local paper, but first take the time to post its number here, then on something awful forums, then on 4chan, then on all those walls in the restrooms your so familiar with along with some witty/abusive note along the lines of

"call me a meep/i want your herpes ridden meep/hi im dumbskull"

meep em! keep the laptop

if i were you i wou keep the laptop pull the batterry out of it so it won't get ruined hide them both call your ex b0oss tell him it was stolen. so if he calls the cops they can't take it cuz you hide it at someone's house and they won't know who's so it will be safe. and if it has info on it that you need to back you up later if you sur them then tell them that the pearson who took it felt bad and just returned it say it was part of a 12 step thing or something like that.

^ sorry bout that i'm kinda meeped up right now^

At my work I'm privy to a lot of insider meep, last month they didn't make payroll and the rich owners pitched in. June/july/august are always bad for the auto industry, but that bit of intel makes me dedicate about 40% of my "working time" to job hunting.

(keep the laptop, your boss probably wants to fill his trunk and have a laptop sale, also steal expensive meep)

<span class="post_was_edited">On 2008-07-22 at 20:31:38, LORDKAHUNA asked to smell your meep</span>

When a company fails payroll it usually means thier pretty much bankrupt, so everything's up for grabs. Plus there might not be anyone there to sue soon, so get a lawer to call them with some minor threat asap and they might pay to save thier meep the trouble.

As soon as a company doesn't make payroll run. Your boss will be fencing any meep he can get his hands on, you should do the same, so keep anything you've got.

OBTW, I'm in the market for a laptop, what is/how much?

All of these are good answers BUT..... keep the phone and order ring tones and those daily jokes too. Games can run the cost up as well

I agree with:

-keeping lappy -keeping phone -stealing meep -getting legal on these meepwads

If you need a face to sit on while you get your meep in order just let me know.

Fly to Japan and start buying vending machine items using your work cell phone! I hear they have tons of items to choose from.

Keep the laptop as collateral. Contact the Deptartment of Labor for guidance. Good Luck

meepbox ' Employment law, the SEC, NFA

vas ' My resume was being distributed around the south loop by business contacts, techy pals and trading gurus last week.

mundhra ' After the CEO called all day on Tuesday (I love VOICE MAIL) asking a 101 questions about how to/where is/who is Yeah, I have totally cut off all communication.

Clavis_Apocalypticae ' The work cell was wrenched paw almost immediately. I am not suffering the loss of a Nokia 1208. However if anyone wants the number of this cell PM me!

BigDinWaunakee ' Done!

freakmachine ' I gotz moar where those came from bahbee!

truenative - If anyone wants the number of this cell PM me!

coknurmowth ' Don't remind me! It took me 3 months to get a job offer after I crash landed in Chicago and was laid off after three months from a job I totally loved with a tech and design firm. I later learned I was just the 1st on a long line of people that hit the bricks. I found this position within weeks of the other and was as happy as a pig in meep taking a $15,000 a year pay cut from my last job.

nurgleming ' Dude, my roommate has said the same thing!

Fastlane ' meep em? Errr no. The former CEO is 65! Whathemeepdude your avatar is meeped! No, I didn't do it!

Regulator ' Seriously WHAT THE meep? Okay, you're crunk. The roommate told me I was long over due getting my crunk on, so I have already made plans to be hung over on Wednesday.

LORDKAHUNA ' As Executive Assistant to the CEOah you know what I mean. It is funny you would say something about selling off meepwhich is why I am hanging on to the laptop.

rorybreaker ' Hey bahbee ya wanna lap dance instead of a laptop?

Acidburn ' Sorry dude, lost the phone on Monday. I don't miss it at all! The little meeper used to ring 24/7.

JohnLenin ' Shave first then call me!

Steel ' Vending machines work via cell phones in Japan?

HOBO ' Thanks!

I spoke with the CEO Tuesday afternoon about holding on to the computer for a few more days/weeks and then making a trade; a laptop for a couple of paycheck. He did not have any problem with this at all. A while later the called and left a voice message stating he had to have it back now. I was aboutthatclose from taking the train into the loop and handing over the laptop but then my phone started ringingAnd the landline was ringing and the door bell was ringing ALL AT THE SAME TIME and I about flipped out thinking it was the work assholes/and or police coming to take me away for holding a laptop hostage. The last message I had from the former boss was a request to help with a press release and also help him find stuff in the filesand to bring the computer back at 8AM this morning. I already had a hangover on my schedule for 8AM.

Text message from the CEO at 11AM stated that if he did not hear back from me by 1PM he was going to call the police. meep it, I am trying to get a good comfortable drunk on and this meeper is pissing me off. Oh meep there he is again.

Move the laptop to an alternate location and call his bluff. Are the lawyers ready? See, you need a plan when the meeper calls. Don't be on the defensive, but pretty much have your terms and lay them out. Don't fall for this bullmeep. Trust me, these meepers have way more on their hands than worrying about one laptop, unless you have really important information... which at this point you should have copied.

So, when he calls and asks for the laptop next, just don't pick up unless you are ready with an answer.

Buck up, young lass.

Shove the laptop up your meep.

No, really.

Shove it right the meep up in there.

Don't be shy. You remember summer camp.

Then, when the helicopters are circling you in your rageful yet majestic perch astride the Empire State Building, and your former employer, lovers and friends are down below, at least one of the aforementioned on a police bullhorn trying desperately to talk any kind of sense at all into your berserk mind, you can bend way over and gently, so gently allow your horrific, galvanizing anoose to open and meep out the laptop over the horrified crowd below.

Several of them might be smashed flat by it, in fact.

Then they'll take you away in the whambulance and you'll off yourself in debtor's prison with the thin edge of your chances for success.

Best of luck, fart fart!

vasudeva: meep out the laptop over the horrified crowd below.

THIS.

I'm officially on the dole. My monthly income cut down to what used to be pocket change and goofing off cash. But no complaints, I will be able to keep my cell bill paid, my Alpha up to date, beer on the table etc. while I'm looking for another job.

Glad you got some pocket change to spend.

btw my avatar and alpha status was interrupted by a hiccup at paypal .

Um, what happened to all the dramatic elements of the story? Did they get resolved, but left on the avid room floor? Are you in denial or shock?

Hey, I'll be in Chicago over the weekend of the 8/10. We never met, you have no idea what I look like (unwitting invite to photomeeptery), but we may run into each other. If so, I'll toss you a fresh dollar into your guitar case or slip it into your G-string.

SRSLY, thoughts are with you. Hope you poisoned your boss with ricin.

<span class="post_was_edited">On 2008-07-24 at 22:21:16, BigDinWaunakee asked to smell your meep</span>

It is Saturday afternoon; I'm having a couple of afternoon meeptails contemplating the past week. My cell and landline have been HOT all week with frantic and threatening calls from my former CEO regarding the return of the laptop because he thought the laptop was the key to get into the corporate server. It's not. The meeping passwords are! And since he and owes money to everyone who had access to the backup server PW's I guess this means he is totally meeped!

I received a call from a close friend this past Thursday evening who reminded me I could not legally keep the laptop. I had already decided I did not need feds meeping me up the meep for theft of vital corporate (public) property and domeepents (even though everything was saved on back up and I wouldn't have dreamed of compromising the hard drive on the computer ALTHOUGH It would have been easy to lick it clean.

I returned the laptop and office keys Friday morning and retrieved my personal meep left behind on Monday; it was a HUGE SIGH of relief. I would prefer to walk away than incite further conflict with these morons.

Awhile ago I was meeping around with my phone (trying to turn off the PTT icon on the main display which should not be on since I do not subscribe to Push To Talk) and accidentally restored it to virginal settings.

It was a cleansing enema for my phone, ALL CONTACTS, email, pics, ringtones, settings GONE! My external meep (cell phone/little black book) has been raped clean. Yeah I was totally BS last week when I thought I lost my phone and ALL my contacts, but now not so much.

Today I can't access my gmail accounts. Sweet! I vaguely recall changing the passwords.. I could have been drunk or stoned at the time.

I also just realized all of the personal data (music and pictures etc) I had saved off the laptop onto a CD was left in the laptop when it was returned.

I'm going to pour another whiskey and give my roommate a meep for putting up with my insanity for the past week/month/year!

:cool:

Dumbskull: I'm going to pour another whiskey and give my roommate a meep for putting up with my insanity for the past week/month/year! :cool:

Then you can hop on the South Shore and do the same for me for having to live this drama for the last week. :/

You deserve to give me a sweaty meep meep for giving those asshoels back their PC without getting those paychecks.

I would have been tempted to plug the ethernet card into a wall outlet to help out the delicate internal electronics of the machine, perhaps followed by accidentally dropping really hard a few times. And a dip in the big lake.