38 episodes. How do you know me and help me?
In the hall, Lee Soo-young was arguing with someone.
A middle-aged man with a black handbag reminiscent of a daily bag, probably the owner of this place.
“Boss. Don’t you know that you haven’t been paid for two months? How do you report a business obstruction?”
She said, trembling her eyes.
He looked like he was about to cry at any moment.
“I’m the only one who knows how much damage you suffered from suddenly quitting?!
“That’s because you didn’t pay last month…”
“It’s because you act like that! Anyway, these days, kids are the problem! You have to do your job and claim your rights. Inflict damage to the store and what? No money!?”
The boss put his hand on his waist and raised his voice as if yelling.
The coercive attitude and the people around them looked at her, making her look somewhat withdrawn.
“You said that you stopped working until last month because the boss didn’t contact you. And you said that you suddenly quit, but I’m missing one day! From the next day on, I came out and started working!”
“Ha! I told you that I was going to quit and I didn’t give my permission, but I came out and started working again, so give me the money? Where is this scam!?”
“Well then, please pay me last month’s wages!”
“Noisy! Get out! I can’t pay a penny to kids like you, so don’t come back!”
The boss took her apron and pushed her roughly.
I got closer and dried him.
“Calm down over there. There are many eyes to see.”
I grabbed him and pretended to look around the inside of the hall and gestured towards Yoohyeon.
At the same time, the guy came closer because it was uncomfortable to see.
“What’s going on?”
“I think there is something going on between the boss and the staff here.
“It’s not a big deal, so the guests can even eat.”
“Hey, it’s nothing special, do you fight? Have you seen everyone here?”
“If you’ve seen all of that, you’d have heard a little bit, wouldn’t it? It’s nothing, so let’s put this down now.”
“It’s nothing, but why is that girl crying like that?”
“Look at this, customer. Why do you keep interfering when you say the person involved is nothing?”
At his question, I let go of the arm I was holding and asked.
“It’s a little uncomfortable to see. So I’m interfering, so why not?”
“Don’t worry about other people’s affairs.
“I don’t like it.”
“……”
For a moment, the president’s face turned red and he looked quite angry as he raised his eyes.
But I can’t scream like before.
I’m young, but first of all, I’m a man, and behind me, a man who is much bigger than me, like a bear, stands tall.
“Hey, lady. What’s going on?”
Even at my question, Lee Soo-young was sobbing and only tears were flowing.
It’s embarrassing and I can’t make sense of it….
I can’t help it.
“Oh, right? Last month, wages were not paid, but the boss kept avoiding contact, so I sent a text message saying that he would quit in a hurry to make a phone call. I was absent from work, but there was still no contact, and in the end, I went to the store all this month, but how did I find out that I couldn’t meet you because I picked up a time when Sooyoung wasn’t there? That is why I have been working without pay this month as well.”
Lee Soo-young, the president, and the man named the manager’s eyes widened at the sight of me speaking out like a rapid-fire gun without listening to the proper words.
“Da, who are you?”
“He said that he was a guest after seeing me. It’s a customer. There’s a table over there where we ate. Isn’t it, Yoohyeon-ah?”
“Huh? Uh-huh? It’s our guest.”
“Look. You’re right.”
I walked up to the manager and asked.
“You said you didn’t get it because you quit yet? If you said that you were the manager of this store, would you consider that you worked this month as well?”
“I don’t know what you mean. I don’t remember saying that.”
“Oh, you must have said that!!”
Sooyoung shouted as she shook her body, trembling from the tingling in the back of the head after being properly slapped.
“When did I? I asked for a little help. I never said that. You must have heard it wrong.”
“…hehehehehehehehehe!”
She eventually covered her face with both hands and cried.
I let out a sigh of relief at the shameless behavior of the two of them.
“A month is just a little bit? Knowing what Sooyoung is in, do you pamper yourself for a month? Are you a human?”
“What! Baby?!”
“To the end, it’s a baby. You’re not saying that the boss can avoid the time as a swimming time?
“Ha! What a crazy person…”
When the manager tried to run at me, Yoohyeon stopped me and broke my arm.
“Hold on. If you don’t want to break your arm.”
“Shut up, report it to the police! Now! Get ready, all these thugs!”
I said with a smirk.
“The police are good. But I think that’s what you should be prepared for?”
“Young people here don’t seem to know the law, but if you make a fuss at someone else’s business place like this, there’s no such thing as a ban like in Korea. That’s arrest, arrest! So let go of that hand now!”
The president could not forcibly take off Yoohyeon’s hand and put a threat with his tongue.
“You seem to know the law, but you don’t know what a concept is? I’ll let you know well this time. If you roll up a concept and eat it, your business will be ruined.”
“Do you think you’re helping him right now? If you don’t want to dodge him, get out right now! Because you won’t be paid for the meal.”
“Damage? What damage? Aha, student visa? Hey, they’re making a confession now. Yeah, it’s fun to bully kids with student visas who can’t spend more than 20 hours a week for free and threaten them with that? Is it okay!?”
The people around me murmured at my shouting.
With those words, they also roughly understood the situation.
Because this kind of arrears in wages was a common axis.
Not only in Korean jobs, but also in remote jobs, this is often the case.
A clearly visible weakness is a very appetizing law.
“Hey, is that true? You really didn’t pay that student for your student visa?”
A middle-aged woman put down her chopsticks and stood up and came over.
“Who did that on purpose? It’s all for a good reason.”
“What is the reason?”
A middle-aged woman asked firmly with her arms crossed.
“I had frequent complaints from customers because of my unfaithful working attitude. The damage our store suffered from that was much greater than the wages that were pending. You can tell by just looking at me, the boss, as soon as you see me, the boss, in the hall. Isn’t that right, G-Manager?”
“Yes, yes. That’s right.”
The manager, who was lying on the table with his arm suppressed, responded hastily.
At that, I poked my tongue inwardly.
‘Is your working attitude insincere? Shit shit.’
I couldn’t see it, so I stepped forward and asked the people.
“Everyone came as guests, so I know better. Does anyone think that the female employee’s attitude is insincere? If so, please raise your hand.”
Again there is no one
I shot the boss.
“How can I have a bad attitude?”
“My, it’s because I’m here. It’s different from usual. Isn’t it, G-Manager?”
“Didn’t you say you were arguing before? But now that the boss is out, it’s different than usual? What kind of contradiction is this?”
“……”
A typical kkondae who only knows how to swear.
He couldn’t help but be an asshole who acted as if he could win with a loud voice.
“Choi Ji-soo, Shin Ha-yul, Lim Ha-young, Kim Ye-rim. And even Lee Soo-young over there habitually ate the wages?”
“……!!”
“Of course, there were more than a dozen more victims before that. What would happen if we gathered all those people and reported them to the Ombudsman? Since there is no pay slip and no employment contract, will there be no investigation from there?”
“……”
Cold sweat dripped from the boss’s forehead.
He seemed to think I had contact with them.
I just looked at the details written in the ledger inside the safe. Huh.
“Why can’t you tell me? Oh, you don’t think they’re all going to be able to file a student visa?
“Hey there. Let’s talk about it…”
“We’re talking right now. Oh, and there.”
I turned to the manager.
Because it was also in the ledger about him.
“If your Inma work visa expires, you go back to Korea. Did you really want to stay here while avoiding others?”
“……!!”
“I’d rather get a student visa, you pathetic bastard.
How did you know that?
What the hell is the boss doing? looked at me with glaring eyes.
“I’ll give you a chance to solve this situation yourself without going to the ombudsman. Contact the people who lost your money right away, get an account number, and send them back. If it isn’t processed within an hour, I’ll take all the people I mentioned before and report it.”
People realized the truth on the president’s face, which was contemplated at my words, and they pressed him.
They all pointed at each other and said that they were going to spread rumors to the Korean community.
“Come on, everyone. Calm down. Anyway, even in such a dispute, we put the discussion between the parties first, so if the boss here doesn’t want to close the business, or if he doesn’t want to go bankrupt and go to jail, he’ll pay a lot of money to deal with it.”
“Ha, the settlement money. Look. Where is the money right now…”
“You have a lot of money in your account. It’s the day you send money for food today, so what are you talking about when you’re sick? It’s just that you left the remittance statement on your way out of the store today.”
“Well, how do you…”
How can I get a quote from the documents in the safe and in your daily bag?
“You know everything, so you deal with it? You must be busy trying to get in touch with the victims.”
“Hey… If we don’t pay the bill, we’ll be in trouble right away, can’t we just give it three days?”
shit shit
I’m just thinking about the end.
“That student has already given me enough time for two months. You’re the one who kicked it, so do it yourself. And I didn’t mean to say this.”
Now let’s decide
“If the investigation comes out, all your accounts will be searched, and then you will get a reverse remittance, so wouldn’t that make it even more difficult?”
reverse remittance.
In a word, it’s dazzling.
If you use the normal procedure through a bank, the remittance fee is so high that companies or individuals with accounts in both Korea and Australia are playing money in the middle.
For example, when a workaholic sends money earned in Australia to Korea, he gives dollars to a reverse remittance broker, and the broker transfers won from his or her account in Korea to the workaholic’s Korean account.
Of course, it is illegal, but the fee is cheap, so many workaholics and international students use it.
‘Look at his face, heh heh.’
You’d be confused as to how you knew that.
In the end, the president and manager started to contact the victims while holding the cell phone in both hands and sweating.
‘I’ve already reported the reverse remittance account, so hurry up, heh.’
Before coming out of the bathroom, he had sent an account number via text message to an attorney in Inham’s legal team.
Soon, both Australian and Korean accounts will be blocked and arrested for violating the Foreign Exchange Transactions Act.
Before being investigated, it was a postponement to the victims of unpaid wages to send money quickly.
After waiting until the investigation is over, to receive compensation for damage, it will be years, months, months.
Then, Sooyoung Lee approached me.
She had stopped crying and her eyes were turning red.
“Hey… How do you know me and help me?”