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At what point do you quit? At what point do you tell your employer that they can eat a bag of dicks and that you're tired of getting fucked over by them? At what point do you decide that the income they occasionally provide is not worth the hoops you have to fucking jump through?

Background: I've got a casual, on-call gig doing IT installs that I've been working for since April. When I started with them, my recruiter told me it would eventually turn into a full-time gig for a few months. That has never happened. That will never happen. In the seven months I've been working for them, I've had maybe 4 weeks in total that have been full-time.

In the first couple months of working for them, I went on gigs across the island for them and racked up over $1000 in expenses that were supposed to be repaid on the next paycheque. They fucked it up. The next pay, they still fucked it up. Honestly, they still might not have paid me everything they owed me, but by the end they got it close enough and I was too fed the fuck up to keep auditing everything.

Aside from that and being misled as to the hours (which, in turn, caused me to not vie as fiercely for new opportunities bc I thought this was going to be my bread & butter - stupid, in retrospect), when I started I was being paid an ok hourly rate. But then, in October, I was talking money with my coworkers on an install where I was team-lead and found out I was making between $2 - $7/hr LESS than they were and this was their first install. So, I renegotiated my contract the next day and got a raise of $4/hr.

Yeah, a raise doesn't really count unless you actually start getting paid the new rate, right? I've gotten paid twice since my raise, and my paystubs aren't reflecting my new rate.

What. The. Fuck?

So, after all that, would you stay? Most people probably would have quit after the expenses getting fucked up. I'm just at the end of my rope. I don't even know. Is it worth it? Would you stay?

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