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18. companies usually do this to get 2 weeks of free work out of a worker.

what happens is the company tells a new worker that their work is contingent on a background check; they don't tell you that it's a credit check. The worker works for two weeks, then the company says sorry, you are fired because you failed a credit-to-debt ratio. they then tell you that your check will be available two weeks from now, for the two weeks you worked. A lot of people won't go back and pick up their check two weeks later, and the ones that do are not allowed onto the work site (because they don't work there). So the company gets two weeks of free work out of the worker.

It seems to be pretty common; I've had this happen to me twice; once when I worked at Wal-Mart for two weeks, and once when I worked for Avis Rent-a-Car for two weeks.