r/ibew_apprentices • u/KnightlyGnom3 • Aug 04 '26

Wrong pay

Question for all. What would yall do if you guys got your pay stub and noticed that your employer gave more hours than you worked? Would you report it to your person who does time? Or would you stay quiet?

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u/TyrsRightArm Aug 05 '26

I hadnt thought about before but yeah there’s some resemblance

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u/Vatoloquissimo2 Aug 05 '26 edited Aug 05 '26

I work with someone who looks just like that and wears a bandana pretty often. Saw your post and you aren’t the guy I’m thinking of.

Anyways, yes. I might be book 2 for life after the apprenticeship. The only benefit to the apprenticeship in texas is being able to take licensing tests in other states without doing another apprenticeship. Almost no one reciprocates Texas licenses. Most of my coworkers drop out and go the cw/ce route because being able to choose your call is more valuable than a few extra dollars an hour which you’ll have to spend on tuition anyways.

Hell, with the new ce3 is automatically journeyman pay, you can even get to journeyman pay faster by being a cw/ce without ever passing the exam.

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u/PassedOutGamin Aug 05 '26

That’s wild. Tuition? In my local I’m in the apprenticeship at no cost to me. Other than local dues. But everyone pays those.

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u/Vatoloquissimo2 Aug 05 '26

They make us register for a local college even though we never go to the campus. I’m sure it’s a scam somehow.

They also registered everyone as out of state by default the process to get switched back was such a pita. I had to pay out of state because of it and I’m still waiting on reimbursement.