I never thought I’d post another blog entry under the “Adventures in Customer Service” category, but I recently received a check from Office Depot, my employer from March to August, 2004, thanks to a $16 million settlement in the class action lawsuit Birch et al. v. Office Depot, Inc.:

On July 21, 2006, Plaintiff Eric Birch filed a complaint in San Diego County Superior Court against Office Depot on behalf of a class of current and former non-exempt employees who worked in California retail stores. Plaintiffs Fabian Alcala and Laura Muller later joined the Lawsuit as additional plaintiffs and the case was transferred to the U.S. District Court in San Diego.

Plaintiffs contend that Office Depot owes the Class Members wages and penalties under California labor law. Specifically, Plaintiffs contend that Office Depot failed to provide meal periods and rest breaks in compliance with California law, failed to pay wages for missed meal periods and rest breaks, failed to pay wages for all time worked, failed to provide itemized wage statements, failed to pay final wages within the time periods prescribed by law, failed to pay “waiting time” penalties for the late payment of final wages, and engaged in unfair business practices based on those alleged violations.

Finally, legal proof that all my bitching about Office Depot was not unwarranted. The only good thing about Office Depot was that it provided me with hilarious incidents to blog about. Looking back, I’m surprised my managers never found this blog and promptly fired me on the spot, but I don’t think they really knew how to use a computer, much less the internets.

Whatever, dude

Thank you, Eric Birch. If I ever run into you one of these days, beers are on me.

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