So the deposit came while I was on the phone asking about it -- while they had put me on hold to 'transfer me to a supervisor', mind you, so it seems WAY too dubious to just chalk it up to "circumstance"
Yes, there are penalties to withholding a paycheck (some states have waiting penalties if it takes too long) - but there's also routes to exploit folks that just lost their job, don't have the time to followup properly, and then aren't able to stop that check from becoming "abandoned property".
