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I mentioned I'd picked up a new delivery job that was meant to pay pretty well for pleb work. The guy said, basically, it would take me about 1 hour to stack and roll the material and then 2 hours to deliver it, for a weekly amount of $60-70. Add in driving to pick the stuff up and $2 for rubber bands and that's about $20 an hour which is a little above our minimum wage. Cool. (That sounds high to some people but our taxes and cost of living are different and it's basically equivalent to the rest of the world, for example our fuel is about $6 per gallon in US terms). Anyway our minimum legal wage is about $16.50 per hour so $20 give or take sounded great.
So I went and picked up the stuff this evening. That took 1/2 an hour. He gave me the contracts for this week and they were much, much lower than what he had quoted me. He seemed very nervous....he was only about 19 and I know that the area distributors for these companies are only paid a flat rate of about $100 a week to receive, allocate and find people to deliver the stuff and it's a monstrous and underpaying job considering if they don't get people to deliver it, they have to do it themselves. However he utterly lied to me. The contract stated I will be paid a grand total of $38 for the entire job. Minus fuel and rubber bands and lets say $30ish.
I thought OK, well, 3 hours work give or take, I'll earn less than $10 an hour or so and I'll not do this again because that's just sad. Mind you my other delivery jobs only pay that much but at least the stuff is delivered to my door and there's no rolling or stacking, i just go for a walk and deliver it and it's done.
So anyway it took us 15 minutes to load it all into the car and 15 minutes to load it out into the lounge when i got back. There is SO MUCH of it.
And I've been rolling and stacking for over 2 hours now and I'm not even 1/3 of the way through it. it is INSANITY. It will, logically, take 6 hours to roll and stack and then...then I have to drive to the delivery area and deliver it and I drove around it earlier and I would guess maybe 4 hours? Or more?
So all in all this job will take (at a conservative estimate) 11 hours, cost me about $8 in fuel and rubber bands and I will end up with $30....less than $3 per hour. I am angry and frustrated and tired. My entire lounge is piled up with this junk and I can't stand to stack any more of it.
I have a huge amount of uni work to do and I need to be studying, and the thought of another 4 hours of rolling and stacking and then 4 hours of delivering tomorrow for no conceivable reason makes me want to cry. I could do without the $30, for HP's sake that is one medium gluten free pizza; I could earn my $30 by skipping my much-loved pizza this fortnight.
What I want to do, honestly, is deliver all of this crap to the recycle bin right now (not that it would fit, it would take about 6 binloads to get rid of it all), block the guys email and never ever think of it again. 2 hours ago I happily told myself 'well, I agreed to do the job this week so lets just do it and decline to ever do it again" however I couldn't have imagined it would be this monstrous and I just don't have TIME to waste like this. It's like a bad dream.
I want to cry. I cleaned my stupid lounge this morning too and now it's just covered in piles and piles and piles of junk mail.
Super peeved that he lied to me.
Super peeved that everything is constantly so freaking difficult. Why is it THIS hard to just earn some damn money? It's not like I'm lazy or unwilling.
Not happy. Don't want to do any more work; I've done enough already considering I was lied to about the renumeration and size of the job. Just want to put it all on a bonfire and get back to my uni work.
GAH!!!!!
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If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see? (Lewis Caroll)
Did you sign a contract saying you would do the work? Me, if I had signed a contract and said I'd do the work, then I'd buckle down and get it done and chalk it up to lessons learned. If not contract maybe I'd be inclined to email him and state that the job was way more than I want to handle for such menial pay and to please come get it or you will send it to recycle bins. Sorry you are faced with this! I hate liars.
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I am strong in the broken places. ~ Unknown
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another! ~ Anatole France
I didn't sign anything LMH.
And I initially intended to just buckle down and do the work but now seeing the enormity of it,wow. I have SO MUCH other work to do, I cant devote an entire day to this!!! As far as I can tell i already have done more than enough work to earn the piddly $30 and now, if I put in a 9 hour day tomorrow I can finish the job? Horrors! I flat out do not have time!
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If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see? (Lewis Caroll)
Feeling the same as likemyheart. If you did sign a contract, then you are kind of obligated even if you have been taken advantage of. If not , then tell him to pick them up as you have already done more than you are being paid for. Sad that you were misled.
I too am sorry you have been misled MissM. I would finish the job and never
do business with this fellow again!! Live and learn, is all I can say to myself
when I find myself in situations like you are in. Maybe next time, eyeball
the work before you accept it, that would be the best course of action.
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does prevent bad behavior from destroying your heart". ~ unknown
I'm with the other ladies in this .. Let him know now This is not working out. You were misled in this situation big time. If I went with the belief that because I agreed with being misled I would Still Be married to my Xah .. I don't fly with that in the least. Hugs s ;)
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Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you've got all the answers, then don't call what you do "faith". - Brene Brown
"Whatever truth you own doesn't own you" - Gary John Bishop
Ugh! I feel for you - that sounds terrible for so little compensation! The devil on my left shoulder says "bonfire!" The angel on my right shoulder says "do what you said you would do" lol! Good luck - sounds like you have a lot going on!
So sorry that you feel misinformed/misled. I would be inclined to put into writing that he has until XX on yy day to pick up the materials or they will be placed in the trash/recycle. You get to decide if you want to tell him why. You get to decide if you tell him how you feel. You also can choose to say/do nothing, and just recycle.
While you had a verbal agreement, it's already void based on what you were told and what you're seeing. So - you own all the power and all the choices. For me, I would certainly not work for free or less than minimum wage. Never. Ever. I value me more today that that and agreement - pfttttttt - practicing integrity with less than honest persons is almost like trying to control an alcoholic's drinking - pointless!
You've got this. You will do what you need to do for you. Use your program, and trust HP. It's all good girl!
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Practice the PAUSE...Pause before judging. Pause before assuming. Pause before accusing. Pause whenever you are about to react harshly and you will avoid doing and saying things you will later regret. ~~~~ Lori Deschene
