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One job that told me I'd get a beginning hourly wage, and then a raise after passing a training and evaluation at the end of my second week. Didn't get that raise after working there for 4 months.
Another job that hired me part-time as an educational assistant, and then fired the educator I was assisting and the website/server maintainer, then told me I'd fill both of their roles while also designing new courses and building demo robots. They strung me along for months, offering me a full-time position, all the while having me log my 60-hour timesheets internally, but signing off on falsified 20-hour timesheets. Finally, I was told to write the job description for a new full-time position that was tailored for me, so they could "quickly" fit me into that position. Then, they immediately hired someone else without even interviewing me. Through a number of monumental fuck-ups on their end, I was able to make a strong case to the Texas Workforce Commission stating that I was wrongfully terminated and in a hostile work environment, for which the employer had to pay me every single unpaid hour.
Can you name and shame the company/school? I'm not surprised this happened in Texas. I was unfortunate enough to live there for 3 years.
The University of Texas has a very impressive and rightfully renowned education system. If you were to talk to any administrative employee who interacts with other UT campuses and tell them that story, they'd say "that sounds like something that would happen at UTSA," and they'd be correct. The specific school, department, or lab does not make a difference; those two campuses are fucking HR nightmares.
I actually tried taking my complaints up the chain of command, and eventually to HR. My HR rep told me that everything I was saying sounded normal, but stressed that I shouldn't talk to anyone outside of UTSA because other entities would accuse me of fraud. TWC was my absolute last option.
Oh no, they would accuse UTSA of fraud.
I was initially advised of fraud. Then I got the reviewer to look at all the emails and recordings. Iirc, their exact words were, "oh shit... Uhh... Give me a couple of days to go through all of this..."
The resolution packet I received with all the back and forth between TWC and UTSA was far closer to TWC telling a state university to shut the fuck up than I ever expected to read.
I worked at UTSW in Dallas. That tracks.