Payroll Knows Nothing? How My Request Was Deflected Yet Again

After sending a clear, formal request for my payroll records, I received an interesting reply from someone in the payroll department. The payroll representative responded not with records I requested, nor with an offer to help gather them, but by pointing me elsewhere. She claimed she doesn't work in HR or Compliance and said I should contact her supervisor or reach out to HR instead.

Let's pause here.

I didn't ask for HR records. I didn't ask about Compliance policies. I asked for my payroll documentation - pay stubs, PTO breakdowns, year-to-date wage info, and clarification on how my resignation (which I never submitted) was marked. All of this squarely falls under payroll.

So why did the payroll specialist who confirmed her role respond by deflecting everything else in my request?

It's a familiar tactic by now: divide the concerns, reroute the communication, pretend each part is someone else's responsibility. But here's the truth: when you're employed by a company, and especially when you're constructively discharged, your access to your wage and payroll history doesn't just disappear. The company is legally required to provide it, and those in charge of payroll know that.

And if there was any genuine confusion, the appropriate response would have been to forward the request to the right person - not simply say, "That's not me."

The irony?

She still confirmed the very action I was trying to document: that a resignation was entered into the system - something I never submitted and was never notified of. That alone raises serious red flags.

I can't even finish telling my story without new examples of obstruction surfacing.

Stay tuned. I'm not chasing them anymore. I'm documenting everything, and I'll let the facts speak louder than their repeated denials and deflections.

-- K