<human>: Back in 2007 I had a tiny piece of steel fly into my eyeball at work.  I tried to get it out with tweezers, and by putting a magnet on my eye, but neither worked.  The next day it was rusting in my eye, and it hurt A LOT, so I went to the E.R.

The hospital records say that I WAS wearing safety glasses at the time.  My boss said that workman's comp would pay for it.  I asked him about it later, and he said it was all taken care of.

All of a sudden, a collector started calling me recently saying that it was never paid for, my employer never made a claim with workman's comp, and I owe them almost $1500  (it cost $1500 even though I was in and out of the E.R. in about 20 minutes).

I HATE the employer (thief, liar, dickhead), plus I lost that job almost a year ago.

Can you condense the text into a few key points?
<bot>: Boss said workman's comp was taking care of my bill, but he lied.  Now I owe the money and don't have the job anymore.