# Austin company looking to dock paychecks by amount of stimulus checks.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/austin-company-looking-to-dock-paychecks-by-amount-of-stimulus-checks/850516>\
**Category:** The Quarantine Zone\
**Tags:** covid-quarantine\
**Created:** [March 28, 2020, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/austin-company-looking-to-dock-paychecks-by-amount-of-stimulus-checks/850516 "2020-03-28T16:10:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2020, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/austin-company-looking-to-dock-paychecks-by-amount-of-stimulus-checks/850516/19 "2020-03-29T04:04:04Z")

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It sounds to me like this company is seeing the economy tank and is taking steps to save these employees’ jobs instead of laying them off. But for some reason people want their heads on pikes for doing it.

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