Hi everyone, 7 months ago I made a post on this subreddit sharing that my Wife's former company's finance team reached out and requested her to pay 50k+ USD to the company upon her departure. Here is the post for your reference and read:
I read all the responses from the post and decided this was a bs bluff and decided to just ignore them with no action taken on our behalf as the company is asking for all the gross wages she has earned in her 7 months with the company. Note that this is gross income they are asking for and not net... and all of her wages earned.
We responded in the email thread that this is some sort of mistake. Their finance team is so dysfunctional that it took 15+ emails between their own team members to get things sorted and they said the amount that my wife owed is 30k rather than 50k+, which is still absurd and this is a full base salary position. I read every word of the employment agreement and there are no writing which states my wife has to pay out her salary or earnings incase of voluntary departure.
Fast forward 7 months, we just got mail from a debt collection agency stating that she owes them over 50k and that we need to respond by mid August. What do you recommend we do here? This is complete bull and I know if we take it into court that we will obviously not have to pay the fee, but I would rather it not get to that point to save us time and money. What should we do here? Should I reach out to the debt collector and inform them that this debt is a mistake? Rather than us having to prove our innocence to predatory debt collection companies I would rather them try to prove us guilty of owing this debt rather than just taking my wife's former company's word for it.
I am afraid that the debt collection agency will continue to hound us for the absurd debt and eventually put a hit on my wife's credit or worse try to siege wages from her. We live in texas. Any advice here is greatly appreciated. Thank you!
Edit: At the tail end of my wife’s employment, she had gotten sick with Covid and her manager emailed her letting her know she can take time off to rest and she did exactly that. After 2 weeks of hard recovery she came back to work and decided to resign as the stress and toxic work culture was not worth her health. I believe the company is butt hurt over this and are trying to get back her entire 7 months of paycheck as some sort of revenge. Note that the OTE commission on her salary is less than 15k and less than 15% of the total salary (85% base, 15% ote).
Submitted July 11, 2022 at 12:57AM by JayceThompson101 https://ift.tt/CiaLDup
