Ask Me Help Desk - Threats by a boss

My name is clay Im 19 years old, and I have been designing a website for a company by a rap studio. I was in the work place for a month; all they do there is sell drugs, smoke weed, and different other things. The studio played me dirty, and only gave me 200 dollars for the site; plus they want me to work more hours for a low pay. They abused of me also by having me work 16 hours a day, with no sleep, and lack of time to study. I decided to put the old website back on how it was, and now I have him on the phone telling me that he is going to send some one to the school and force me to work for him. The bad thing is that the job was off the books, and I cannot explain to the cops that I worked there because I have no proof, I was working there. Now he also wants the 200 dollars that he gave me back, or else I am dead. Now this is very URGENT. This is not a Joke. I am very depressed that I donot know what to do. I am trying my best to transfer at another school in another city, but there isn't any money, and now I am dead. Please help.

If I were you, I would be getting the police involved as soon as I could and let them sort things out for now.

Yes, first working "off" the books is perfectly legal, you are considered self employed. All that matters is you report the income latter as self employment.

Now let me see you had no issue working for them when they were selling drugs and other things, but the real issue came when they did not want to pay you , right?

So the police don't believe you, then you file your report and you are no worst off are you. First you have all the info from the web site work, you have access to their web site codes and passwords?

But if you changed it back to the original web page, you do owe them their moneyback, ( as a contractor)

A lesson learned, always get all working agreements in writing if you are contracting out your labor.

Places that do illegal things, will do other illegal things.

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Originally Posted by claydogg

My name is clay Im 19 years old, and I have been designing a website for a company by a rap studio. I was in the work place for a month; all they do there is sell drugs, smoke weed, and different other things. The studio played me dirty, and only gave me 200 dollars for the site; plus they want me to work more hours for a low pay. They abused of me also by having me work 16 hours a day, with no sleep, and lack of time to study. I decided to put the old website back on how it was, and now I have him on the phone telling me that he is going to send some one to the school and force me to work for him. the bad thing is that the job was off the books, and I cannot explain to the cops that I worked there because I have no proof, I was working there. Now he also wants the 200 dollars that he gave me back, or else I am dead. Now this is very URGENT. this is not a Joke. I am very depressed that I donot know what to do. I am trying my best to transfer at another school in another city, but there isnt any money, and now I am dead. please help.

Sounds to me that they can see you are not aggressive and yes shy, and they feel they can do what they want to cause you are ill aquiped at dealing with jerks like that. First and foremost never work for them again. I did not catch your age but depending on your grades and whatnot you could hit the local college. If that is not a possibility then speak to your school couselor about summer school to beef up your credits, and graduate sooner.

Threats are serious and if you feel that scare going to the cops is not bad, but on the flipside cause mor trouble. Cops also know when people are lying so if you do chose this route your story sounds believable and cops won't arrested you for it. Also returing the money they gave you is not a bad idea but people on the wrong side of the law can't be trusted and they might do bodily harm, but I would suggest to go to the cops to at lesast file a complaint so it can be documented about the threat you made and I hope you never work for shady people again and be glad it only $200 and not more because I bet they oromised you more money.

The police are concerned with the threats, not whether you worked their off the books or not. But since you rolled back the work you did I would return the money.