complicated

Hello Ladies!

I got a job. Unfortunately, I’m pretty sure that I cant take it. Here’s the story.

I saw an ad on Craigslist last Thursday advertising for a pc tech with starting pay between 20 and 30.00 an hour. I sent my resume off and hoped for the best. On Friday I got an email from them asking if I would be available for an interview either over the weekend or next week. Remember that accident my son got into? I had already made arrangements to drop my car off at the body shop first thing Monday morning. So since I knew that I wouldnt have a car all week, I told him that over the weekend was best. 4 days to replace a bumper?!? There should be a law! But anyway… back on track. He emailed me back on Saturday asking if I could meet with him on Sunday. As odd as a Sunday interview sounds, I accepted the meeting. He said that meeting with him on Sunday earned me bonus points.

The job is pretty straight forward. Fix whatever comes in. Go on job sites to install, train or support. Then he explained the pay schedule. There is no pay unless I go out on jobs. I get 35% of all jobs completed but there is no base pay. He told me 3 times during the hour and a half that I was there that business is slow right now (he blames the economy). Technically he is right about the 20-30 an hour but he neglected to mention in this ad that the 20-30 an hour is only for hours actually on a job site, not hours waiting for work to come in.

I just got an email from him. He wants me to start tomorrow. Fulltime from 8:30 to 5:30. So basically I’d be sitting there (without pay) until a job came in. If I take this job I will lose my unemployment. It could be days between jobs. He charges 75.00 per hour labor and I get 35% of that. What if there are no jobs coming in? Then I sit there for free and cant pay my bills at the end of the week. Since I’m sitting there across the desk from him I cant look for another job and like I said, I will lose my unemployment checks.

100% commission in this economy? We’ll be homeless by next