Hey guys,
I didn’t want to post this in Random or anything because I don’t really want what I do public knowledge and also run the risk of my boss seing this.
I’m a contractor for a Web Design company where I am grossly underpaid for the work that I do, in my opinion. I deal with one guy at the company, he tells me what to do and what not over instant messenger. We have a pretty relaxed relationship, he tends to pry into my personal life and insult my intelligence and stuff on occasion, which is all fine and dandy as long as I get paid, I can put up with jerks. So I started officially working for this company some time in January I guess and payments were going somewhat smoothly. Recently, however, cash flow has been a big problem. I hadn’t gotten paid for about two months now and the company owed me in the vacinity of 1000 dollars. I’m behind on all my bills and I’m completely broke and it sucks. He explains that it’s because clients haven’t been paying and so forth, and I’m like whatever, not my problem, but I understand and I’ll let it slide. Well a couple weeks ago he tells me that clients began paying and I’ll be compensated for my work the following week. Which would be last week. Here we are monday and I have nothing. So I sent him an email. I told him I was upset and did not understand why I had not been paid for so long and why I was promised payment and yet did not recieve it. I asked for details about when my check would be sent etc. I feel I did nothing wrong, I’m allowed to want to be paid. So responds and thanks me for throwing a hissy fit and says he’ll send the money in the most condescending way possible, and sarcastically thanks me for my patience. What a prick right? So I just don’t know what to do basically. I’d be surprised if he even sent the check. I’d love to just be like screw you ******* I’ll get a new job but that’s far easier said than done, finding a job in web design at my age is rather difficult.
So basically, if anyone bothered to read that ridiculous run on sentence, what do you think I should do? Did I do the wrong thing? Argh. I’m just steamed about all this. I always do work for people and get screwed out of money and I’m sick of it and I figured a legitimate business would be better. That’s what I get for thinking though.
Thanks for reading and sorry for the long post!
