Woman Wonders Whether To Spend Money Meant For Contractor Who Completed Work Then Disappeared

When working for an employer, there are significant laws that they must go by as well as best practices that they should follow. This is to make sure they are adhering to the terms of the employment contract.

In order to prevent unpaid payments, this is especially crucial when it comes to employee wages. If your employer does not pay you for completed work, it is considered an unauthorized deduction from earnings.

You have the right to file a claim through an employment tribunal if you and your employer are unable to work things out. This is what we see in today's story but it came with a twist - an employer who's willing to pay and an employee who doesn't seem to want payment.

The OP is a 70 year old and she has backyard chickens. She planned to have a new, bigger coop built for them but her regular contractor ghosted her a couple times for an estimate.

OP was whining to her lawn guy about that and he said he knew a guy that would probably be willing to do it. The guy came along, did the work and ghosted the OP without collecting pay.

They didn't even discuss a fee and now the OP doesn't know how to get him to collect payment. Keep scrolling down to read the whole story in the OP's own words.

The OP writes...

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He would need to figure the price out since he’d picked up a few things at Home Depot

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The OP's not legally obligated to pay him if he shows up a year from now looking for the money

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The OP has tried a couple of ways to reach him

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OP has offered the following explanation for why they think they might be the AH:

I want to spend money that was intended to pay someone for work they did for me, but never came for.

Let's head into the comments section and find out what other Redditors have to say about the story

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This Redditor is getting kind of suspicious

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OP's yard guy wanted to do something nice for her

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Doing it for free depending on the scope

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The OP got a solution

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The OP left an update...

I found him, thanks to a suggestion I search his phone number on PayPal or Venmo. I found him on PayPal, sent him $550 and a note thanking him for his excellent work and his kindness. Thanks for ALL of the kind words here, and for some of you, thanks for the laughs and giggles.To put some minds at ease, I'm 1,000% positive he didn't bury anything under the chicken coop, as it is built on asphalt. LOL

The OP has been ghosted

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Reddit makes the OP laugh

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How much do I owe you?

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An employment contract is broken by employers who don't pay you on time or for any work you do. It's important to realize that not every clause in a contract is recorded, and if your employer violates any of the conditions, there has been a breach.

In this case, there wasn't any contract, but you can tell that the OP really wants to pay this Jason. Thankfully, she did as her update says so, and this is where we draw the curtains.