It is almost a given that the employer/employee relationship will be too toxic to continue working for somebody that you had to file charges against to get paid. Not that I see the employees having any other reasonable choice but to collect money owed. I would have collected my wages person to person in my younger years regardless of consequences!
The bravest and dumbest man I can think of off hand was putting up a metal building. A dozen or so employees, after working their asses off two weeks in the broiling hot South Louisiana sun he cut them all a hot check for their wages! Needless to say they were some unhappy campers.
He persuaded them all it was just a big mistake on the bank's part and got them to keep working promising them that all wages would be paid when the next paycheck was due and he would add a nice bonus. Another hot check! It took about three months for everyone to get paid with some hunting him down and collecting their wages or part of them earlier.
I worked a similar job that paid weekly. They paid on Fridays, late every Friday when it was too late to get to the bank with a check! That was a hot job too, working in a petro-chem plant hanging insulation and sheet metal in a pipe rack. Aside from the hot sun on steel and concrete, the plant itself generated a lot of heat. I got a chance to jump ship for much better pay and with union representation a few months into the project and did, taking my brother and a friend with me.
Funny thing, about ten years later I took over pushing a job. A couple of familiar faces in the crew, my foreman and superintendent from that job I started with that had the flaky pay practices! The foreman was a friend and I got along fine with the superintendent so no problems for anybody. Just the way things worked in construction. I met a man at the gate first day on the job, he was superintendent for another company and wanted me to come to work for him. I had started him out as a green hand not too many years before!
Hu
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