Decisions.
Oct. 1st, 2004 10:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shirenomadI should have seen this coming. This is the same disorganized boss who doesn't seem to know the meaning of the phrase "has to be done by" and who has never, ever been able to keep his priorities the same for more than 24 hours. I'd spent a good chunk of the past month getting instructions that changed by the day, and a lot of it regarding things that he could have handled himself or were largely irrelevant to the smooth operation of the company come my departure.
End result: At 5:30pm (my "official" checkout time), we hadn't finished with everything he wanted finished, and more to the point, we weren't going to for at least another eight hours. I gave him until 6:45 (no, I don't get overtime) to be nice and to accomplish a particular project, but by the end, he was asking me about sticking around for three more days. At the same wages. I said I already had plans for Friday (and I do: I promised my parents I'd clean the house today), but I'd think about Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday. And warned him that it would NOT at the same wages.
He seemed to think that was unwarranted. And granted, he did give me a 50% raise to keep me a month instead of two weeks, but that's just my point: we agreed yesterday was the LAST DAY. When we were talking back at the start of the month, I even offered to give him October 1st for free, but he wanted to keep it simple. So that's his problem. Plus, given his track record, I wouldn't be surprised if he came up with enough random stuff to do that we STILL weren't done at the end of next Wednesday.
At the same time, I'm now without income and he knows it. So it's very hard just to tell him that "I'm not interested" when I don't know where my next paycheck is coming from. I told him I'd have an answer by Saturday.
After discussing things with a few other sources, I think I'm going to tell him right out: he wants me there Monday, he's paying me at contract wages. $200 a day. (I might go down to $175.) He also, if he wants to bring me in at future dates, has to inform me by no later than noon the previous day, and I have the right to refuse. He doesn't have to give me benefits (not that he ever did) and he doesn't have to worry about my taxes.
But before I tell him that, I just wanted everyone's opinions, especially those who also do tech work: does anyone here have a better idea for how to make the offer, or for what might be an offer I'm more likely to succeed with, period?
End result: At 5:30pm (my "official" checkout time), we hadn't finished with everything he wanted finished, and more to the point, we weren't going to for at least another eight hours. I gave him until 6:45 (no, I don't get overtime) to be nice and to accomplish a particular project, but by the end, he was asking me about sticking around for three more days. At the same wages. I said I already had plans for Friday (and I do: I promised my parents I'd clean the house today), but I'd think about Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday. And warned him that it would NOT at the same wages.
He seemed to think that was unwarranted. And granted, he did give me a 50% raise to keep me a month instead of two weeks, but that's just my point: we agreed yesterday was the LAST DAY. When we were talking back at the start of the month, I even offered to give him October 1st for free, but he wanted to keep it simple. So that's his problem. Plus, given his track record, I wouldn't be surprised if he came up with enough random stuff to do that we STILL weren't done at the end of next Wednesday.
At the same time, I'm now without income and he knows it. So it's very hard just to tell him that "I'm not interested" when I don't know where my next paycheck is coming from. I told him I'd have an answer by Saturday.
After discussing things with a few other sources, I think I'm going to tell him right out: he wants me there Monday, he's paying me at contract wages. $200 a day. (I might go down to $175.) He also, if he wants to bring me in at future dates, has to inform me by no later than noon the previous day, and I have the right to refuse. He doesn't have to give me benefits (not that he ever did) and he doesn't have to worry about my taxes.
But before I tell him that, I just wanted everyone's opinions, especially those who also do tech work: does anyone here have a better idea for how to make the offer, or for what might be an offer I'm more likely to succeed with, period?
