the.path.i.chose
by the.path.i.chose

How much am I getting paid?

10/18/2009

.shocker.

So, this last week has been sorta kinda nice...in a way. That's the only way I know how to put it. We're doing our "dumps" now which is taking half the birds out of one turkey house and putting them in one of the 5 houses not being used. Eventually all 5 houses will be done. We did one on Tuesday because it was nice and another was suppose to be done Friday but it was gonna be cold. Now we are suppose to be doing it Tuesday and possibly two houses in one day. Since we weren't moving any after we did that first house Jess decided to let Buck and Corey have off till Monday. That's 5 days we had to work that they didn't. She told us originally that she was going to make them take off without pay, not like it was an option. But she must have posed it as an option to him. He said yeah. He isn't getting paid either. I don't believe he should either. Up until now he's gotten the weekends off paid while we worked. But here's the kicker. If he wanted to take off he had to pay me instead of Mike paying me. Jess is making him pay me what he would get paid if he were being paid wages. She told me $10 an hour instead of my usual $8. Which is nice. But then she said something to Jeff off-hand about paying me what he would make a day. I'm sure it's all the same but how are they averaging it? We had a discussion a while back about this because he felt they needed raises or didn't get paid enough for the work that we do. At that time she said that she had figured out that if she based his pay on a 40 hour week (which we don't work) he was getting paid like $13 something an hour. So if he's working less hours the hourly wage should go up. If they go by "per day" what would that be? 10 days or 14? He hasn't worked a weekend since we got the birds except for one saturday. that was only 3 hours. So yeah I can't wait for this. Jeff wondered if this would raise the tension levels around the farm. Jess told me not to worry about getting the money she would take care of it and to just turn my hours into her. I was kinda worried about that because him and Jeff get paid by check so would I have to wait til Tuesday to get that money so that he would be able to get his check cash? I will actually getting paid really well because we didn't work full days but she's making him pay me a full day's wages because he isn't getting the rest of it either being as he didn't work. The only day we worked normally was Friday and it was only till about 2:45. Jeff ran into him Saturday at the gas station over near his mom's. It was before 3 but not much and Jess said so what he doesn't know that I wasn't still at home working. I'm kinda like err, yeah he does. He knows damn well that Jeff wouldn't leave me working by myself. But Jeff said he came up to him and asked how things on the farm were going. Jeff told him everything was fine and some of what we got done. Then he told Jeff to tell me to give him my hours so he could pay me. Jeff said that he just acted stupid to this fact and Buck was like yeah, I'm paying Amanda for working. They're just screwing me again and he turned to walk back to his truck. Jess wasn't happy in the slightest with that comment. What they're doing is deducting that money from his check and giving it straight to me. She was going off about him this morning and she said she's only paying him for a week. So, am I getting his other weeks pay? I mean we get paid bi-weekly. So I thought if I'm getting paid $10 an hour then I made $300 bucks. But if they're only paying him a week and I got the second week that would be $550 dollars. I'm so confused and I guess I won't know until tomorrow. I don't want to get my hopes up because she did say at first $10 an hour. What I don't get is why he's got to pay me and not Mike. Even if he had worked I still would be working and Mike would be paying me. So, yeah, in a way I guess he's getting screwed. But at the same time not really. Whether it goes to me or not he's still not getting it because he didn't work. He does part-time work for himself doing block work. He's working on some big job putting stone on somebody's house. He's been working on it for awhile and from what I understand this person is particular. Jeff asked him if he was able to make progress on it being as he was able to work on that full-time and he said that he was only a 1/4 of the way done. I was like wtf? As long as he's been working on this before he got this time off and that's all they've got done? Anyways. That's that. Can't wait to see how tomorrow goes. Jess said she's finally gonna let him go tomorrow...permanently. -groans- There was a heater in one of the houses that wasn't hanging right and was burning way to high and the dust on top had turned black. It could cause a fire and she wasn't happy with it and of course it's another one of those things that he worked on. She said there isn't anything on this farm that the three of us can't handle. I was kinda thinking I can't handle any of it. I can but I don't wanna lol. This was NOT what I had in mind when we moved here. I didn't mind helping out at first but now it's turned into a full time job and that was not what I was looking for. The past few weeks especially I haven't spent any time with my kids. I can barely even make sure they get their homework done. I haven't been able to keep up with school activities or anything. We haven't played games like we used to and that kinda stuff. I'm just too tired. It's gotten to where Jeff actually washes dishes and cooks supper on occasion. I think in the last two weeks I've cooked a whole whopping one time. Can you believe that? This up coming weekend I had scheduled my annual halloween party. I was dubious about that to start with because I usually have a pile of kids but not this year. I made invitations but I didn't send them out in time. But the kids really don't know anybody from their new schools well enough, nobody from the old neighborhood will come this far for it. So I figured it would just be my kids and the nephews and nieces and maybe the kids down the street. But with work and especially this week being super busy I just don't have the time to decorate. Nor will I really have the money. Being as I have a house now instead of a tiny apartment I just don't have enough decorations though I don't have to do the whole house. Then my sister said that it would probably be just her, her husband, and only her one daughter. There goes two kids. eh, just not worth it. I emailed her and told her I canceled but I still wanted to do something with the kids just because we do have the pumpkin patch. I suggested something about coming out to pick them and decorate them. Maybe make some snacks and watch a kid-friendly "scary" movie or halloween related. Honestly, one of my favorite things to watch around Halloween is Scooby Doo. I know that is so fucked up but I can't help it. so yeah that's all for now. this entry is super long due to my rambling. ciao!