Is AUTHOR wrong in the post ? POST : Okay, so let me start by saying I love my job. It pays pretty well, I work on my own, very good benefits, I work four 12-hour shifts every week with the option for more overtime essentially every week.

My direct boss is the operations manager (OM) for the entire department. He is the only person I have to answer to. Eight months ago he decided to give me a raise that would be “on my next check”. Every two weeks (pay period) he would continually tell me it’s supposed to be on my next check and it never was. For awhile there I thought maybe he was screwing me around about it being “stuck somewhere in corporate”... until...

Last week when my pay stub was posted my raise still wasn’t there, and I got pretty upset about it. I calculated that over the last eight months the company owes me about $1800 from when I was told my raise would be there until now. I told my boss that if he really can’t get this through (with backpay), I’m going to start writing down extra hours on my time sheet until they are back to even with me. He told me to go ahead and do it (commit fraud) and he would still sign off on my time sheets like nothing happened. He just told me to keep a documented running tally so that he knows when I can stop doing this. 

I have all of our texts/emails saved, which is basically us conspiring to defraud a company... but I can’t help but feel like this money is owed to me, because they have been lying to me for 8 months... so what’s the difference if I lie to them? If I get caught, I’ll still get fired, but at least I have documentation showing that I was TOLD by the OM to do it.

AITA?