By nothotforteacher - 07/01/2010 07:13 - United States

Today, my college professor/employer failed to send in a letter I had been counting on for a scholarship application. He has also decided not to pay me for the last two months. I'm not going to make rent. Apparently this is the punishment you get for politely declining a date with a married man. FML
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davek 36

Tell his wife, and his boss, and a lawyer.

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omgxwtfxheather 2

file a compliant! people can't do that shit now a days

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marc_with_a_c 3

Sue him for the two months of not being paid, and then sexual harassment over the asking you on a date, and.. whatever law that applies for the scholarship

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SeximusPrime 0

Find out how to contact his wife and tell her that her husband is a cheating asshole. Then sue his ass.

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ZachIsASaint 1

 42 comments before somebody questioned the part about working two months and not getting a regular paycheck? why are people so eager to believe obvious bullshit like this and side with OP? I'm thinking there never was a proposition from the professor. There was a lazy chick who thought she had a job for two months, but nobody ever saw her work. She has no money now to pay rent or next year's tuition. She dreamed up this story to solve her problems.

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Jewelofagal 2

Think about this just a little bit -- chances are, the pay wasn't the primary motivation for the OP to keep the job. It was the resume building experience he/she direly needs to round out his/her skill set. Many students take on unpaid internships for the exact same reason. It's completely believable that this student would continue on in this job, unpaid, in order to be able to say he/she completed the experience.

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wellness_fml 0

The explanation is that she was probably mislead about the pay. When I worked as an intern when I was in my early 20s I wasn't paid until after the internship was complete - about 3 months. Sorry, but your reply suggests that you're sexist and/or perhaps even insist that a lot of women who get raped asked for it. Think about what I've said before / if you respond

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wellness_fml 0

Just in case you didn't READ my post.... The explanation is that she was probably mislead about the pay. When I worked as an intern when I was in my early 20s I wasn't paid until after the internship was complete - about 3 months. Sorry, but your reply suggests that you're sexist and/or perhaps even insist that a lot of women who get raped asked for it. (For example, your rationale that her "story" solves her problems is absurd. Her posting of her problem does NOT solve her problem - just allowed her an opportunity to vent about a egocentric male pig. Think about what I've said before / if you respond

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quivx 7

You do realize you have to tell somebody about this, right?

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sissypants32 0

should of went on that date !!!

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letitbe56 0

Well, that definitely qualifies as sexual harassment. Since withholding pay and sabotaging your future is seriously not okay, it might be worth bringing it up with whatever office at your school deals with sexual harassment issues.

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0p3nl0v3 0

I love trustno1fox beacuase he sure knowns how to enrage women's right protecting no lifes on Fmylife.com with his trolling. I hate the fact that he's sexist but love It when "ladys" like Ap start talking. Why pay for cable when there are people like 'em?  By the way Ap, here's something for ya.  = .

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GCali4 0

just wondering why he pays you???.. but haha that sucks!

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boatkicker 4

Probably because its a work study job. He has to sign off on her time card and submit it to the people in charge of the college. If he didn't do that, she wouldn't get her money. This was in reply to #76

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idkweird 0

OK, now that I could understand. I was about to ask why the hell the teacher would be paying her. I would have assumed the University would do the paying. How often are these teachers supposed to "sign off" on the time cards, though? It would seem weird to me that she would be 2 months behind on time sheets...

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letitbe56 0

Also, departments or even a professor's individual lab sometimes pay RA's through grant money, rather than the university. It could have taken the OP a while to figure it out if the professor kept saying, "Oh, the grant hasn't come in yet," to cover up the fact that he just wasn't paying her.

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