The Growery
Active Member
I've been working at an upholsterer shop on and off for the last 15 years. recently i started working there again. in past years I was paid $15/hour. This time I started at 13/hr. I've been working there for about 4 months now and am faster and better than I was before when I was working for him in years past. I asked the boss for a raise back to 15/hr and he said okay. This was on last wednesday. As a way to show my appreciation I offered free labor on Saturday if he was willing to buy some pegboard and tool clips so that I could organize all the work benches, about 5 hours of work. Yesterday, as I'm at home depot getting the peg board and supplies, the boss writes out this week's check.
He waits until the very possible last second before he leaves for the day and hands me my check and says the raise will start next week, while I'm working for him off the clock for free unloading pegboard and taking down all the tools hanging on the walls (about 1000+, it's a a big shop). Isn't that kind of shitty of him to do that knowing that I was about to give him 5-6 hours of free labor and a much needed revamping of the tool organization systems? or should I just be grateful that I even got the raise? well in any case lesson learned, I will never offer him free labor again and when he wants me to drop off a small item at a customer's home on my way home from work, instead of not charging him for the time, I'm going to charge him for every minute now.
He waits until the very possible last second before he leaves for the day and hands me my check and says the raise will start next week, while I'm working for him off the clock for free unloading pegboard and taking down all the tools hanging on the walls (about 1000+, it's a a big shop). Isn't that kind of shitty of him to do that knowing that I was about to give him 5-6 hours of free labor and a much needed revamping of the tool organization systems? or should I just be grateful that I even got the raise? well in any case lesson learned, I will never offer him free labor again and when he wants me to drop off a small item at a customer's home on my way home from work, instead of not charging him for the time, I'm going to charge him for every minute now.
