Posted by Deneb on September 19, 2009, at 15:04:14
In reply to Re: I finally got paid by my uncle, posted by Angela2 on September 19, 2009, at 12:57:24
We called my aunt who also worked for him to figure out how much an hour he gave us. It turns out it was $8/hour. My Mom usually get minimum wage, $9.50/hour plus she worked a lot of hours overtime. Instead of overtime pay she gets paid even less.
My Mom has to work with my uncle so she is telling me not to make a deal out of this, since he is family.
If he would have come right out and said he would pay us less than minimum wage I would have maybe been OK with this. But the problem with this is that he has absolutely no money problems plus I am not that close to him. I think we deserve to be paid for our work. I'm not even asking for more than minimum wage for goodness sake! Plus I worked 10 days in a row without a break for him, as did my Mom, who worked even more. I was dead tired at the end of the night and so was my Mom.
Anyways, my Mom told me not to make a fuss out of this. I just hate that my Mom is letting my uncle take advantage of her like this.
He is family and yet he still cheats us.
Good thing I drank like $20 worth of pop and juice while I was working there. LOL Of course I didn't let him know that. LOL
I am not working for him again. I encourage my Mom to not work for him either next summer.
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