Samoas are the best

Boss wants to switch me back to a contractor, meaning I'd lose the vacation time she finally just gave me after 2.5 years of being there, and my incentive bonus I started getting about 6 months ago. Also means I'd get roughly a 20% paycut unless she raises my base rate (which she won't). Told her I'm not doing it unless I'm being adequately compensated and I have guarantee that my hours would stay around the same. We'll see what happens, I honestly wouldn't be surprised if she fires me at this point. People never understand how much you do for them until you're gone. Her net income has almost doubled since I've started working their lol, funny how rich people don't see the correlation with shit like that.

She told me all this on Thursday and then I had to work the rest of the day knowing she wanted to cut my rate to a point where I could no longer support my wife, child, and mother-in-law. She also then refused to pay me on Friday as it's "too much of a hassle" to pay me on payday and that we'd figure it out "sometime next week". My birthday was on Sunday, so she refused to pay me two days before my birthday when she knows how strapped for cash I am. I've been in the office for 3 Christmas/thanksgiving holidays and for the first time last year she paid me for those days, and only because we hired another nurse who said she needed to get paid on those days. I've never once gotten any other paid holiday off, no sick days, no benefits and now this. I've never once demanded that I get paid for any of these, healthcare and some other things have been brought up but she's immediately dismissed them and that was the end of the conversation. I've never complained to her about any of it. On top of all of that, I was the first to her house after she had a breakin, got all her locks changes on her house car, called and cancel all her CCs that were stolen and got them replaced, picked up extra work in the office and at her house including working weekends when her daughter had a mental breakdown and then took her and her other daughter out for dinner and drinks to cheer her up, and most recently, I drove her to the office and got her spare ID, drover her to the impound to get her car, and set her up with an attorney I know after she got a DUI. I've literally done everything I possibly can for this woman inside and outside of work and she just wants to assfuck me and be happy about it lol.

I will admit that I've had a drop in my productivity over the past two weeks due to some very serious family concerns. All of which I've explained to her and kept her in the loop about letting her know when I'd need to be on conference calls, court meetings etc... and she conveyed sympathy at the time. It wasn't like I was never in the office or anything, I was still working 30-35 hours a week (which is what I normally work) and answering calls on weekends/nights or working while I needed to be home at dealing with shit. Just definitely wasn't working as well as I normally do, no doubt about that. Just crazy to me that a few bad weeks justifies taking away everything from me that I've worked to achieve over my nearly 3 years in her office.

Anyways, end rant. Just needed to get all of that off my chest. It's been a truly horrible two weeks and just typing all this out has made me feel a bit better. Thanks for reading and wish me luck tomorrow guys. Really not sure what the next step for me is going to be if she decides to just fire me right then and there.

This post was edited by jadeoshbogosh on Feb 15 2016 03:23am

It sounds like she is taking you for granted. Threatening to quit could be a good thing if, like you say, it makes her appreciate the work you do.

I told her that she would either need to keep me on as an employee or pay me what she pays her other contractors (which is significantly more than what I make) and have a contract with me ensuring I'd receive x amount of hours per week. We'll see what she says. When I first started working for her she wanted me as a contractor, which I did agree to initially not understanding the implications. After speaking with an accountant and releasing how fucked I was getting so she could save a minuscule amount of money, I said she needed to make me an employee, which she did. This was within the first 3 months I worked for her. It's just crazy that 2+ years later, this is coming up again.

The last thing I want to do is be a sponge and collect unemployment, but I'm not going to have another choice if she refuses to be reasonable with me. Besides the work I do (that I was hired to do), I also do all of her billing, payroll, monthly tax filings, and IT (which is constant when you work with 2 60+ computer illiterate female nurses). Things which I get paid less to do as my incentive doesn't apply for items that I'm not directly billing to one of our customers. Once again, something I've never complained about and that I happily do.


I hope you're right. I enjoy my job, I enjoy being mentally challenged with certain projects and I really enjoy interacting with our clients and customers. I would be fairly devastated if I lost the job, I know I'd never find another job in this particular field again. It is what it is though, just trying to prepare for the worst and I've got a couple things I've already planned out in the event she decides to be completely unreasonable.

This post was edited by jadeoshbogosh on Feb 15 2016 03:33am

Dayum Josh. gl man

Dat feel of going to work on Monday after having 4 days off

Fuck

@Josh Damn thats shitty bro, hope everything works out for you in the end. Didnt know it was your birthday, happy late birthday even though it sounds like it was far from happy.

This post was edited by CenturyLink on Feb 15 2016 08:51am

It maybe best for you to find a new job anyways. Every time you talk about your job you make it seem like it sucks, I feel like you'd be happier somewhere else that actually appreciates you. Even if she gives you what you want I'd start monitoring job postings and email subscriptions.

The other option I've been considering is going back to school. Go xx,xxx in debt and get a career in Network Security and hopefully find a job starting at 50-60 out the door. Might be better in the long run.

Josh you should explain to her your concerns and what you bring to the table and maybe touch on 'why there was a dip' in you productivity.

Or go get that RN

I did. We're suppose to discuss all of the above at work this morning. Playing a few games of cod before I go in, kinda dreading it lol.

Heading out now though, wish me luck boys.