This is vintage Thailand. Pocky quit her job three days ago. The circumstances were less than great. I already wrote a bit about the crap working conditions. Well, if any more proof was needed that the employer was completely unscrupulous, she got a call today from her ex-boss who claims that she broke the such and such and will have to pay 2,500baht (50$) to fix it. Her outstanding salary is about half of that. This must be some typically Thai ploy to further f… the employee. I suggested that we probably won’t see her money back, but there was no way in god’s creation that the lady is going to get one extra satung (cent) out of us. The best part of this whole thing is the elapsed time between leaving the job and the assertion that the such and such was broken by Pocky. Three days before anyone realized the such and such was broken because, get this, she evidently forgot to oil it. Three days before anyone noticed means non-usage. What breaks because due to a lack of oil when it goes unused? Obviously this story has no conclusion as of yet, but after the lady got nasty and threatened to go to the police (Pocky never even signed a working contract) I suggested we break off communication with her. This is an interesting digression, we actually ventured to the police station one day to make a complaint about a store that we bought curtains from. The details are boring, but the upshot is that like police anywhere the Thai police have no desire to enter into civil disputes. I think this claim by the dentist is all an ill-conceived bluff on her part to BS her way into some money from the girl with the “rich” foreign boyfriend. I don’t believe she has a legal leg to stand on and if my guess is right, she is far too lazy to pursue this once we stop communicating.