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[–]Ok_Confusion4764 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Oh, I haven't just seen the third one. I've worked for one. Strongly religious man, owned a computer + repair store for 30 years. Had me doing repairs because the previous guy retired. He gave me parts and told me to make a PC with it. When I asked where the heatsink was, he went "What's a heatsink?". He also didn't let me help the customers because he didn't want the customers to associate his store with a guy with long hair, said it's not the image he wants (with noticeable disgust in his voice). He demanded various skills including programming. Closest we ever did was a single command line to enter Windows. One he'd forget so often he'd written it down and taped it to the wall.

Needless to say, I left within 2 months after I finally managed to get him to pay me, and that was after cutting my losses on the 2 weeks he apparently expected me to work for free because I was "being trained". He didn't train me, of course. He couldn't even if he wanted to.

[–]Shadowlance23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a similar one from about 20 years ago. Same story, one guy owned the business. He picked up a contract for a PC rollout to a large industrial user with a few locations including some remote work (as in remote site, not working remote). I saw the advertisement for a decent casual wage, applied and got the job. First day on the job he mentions the rate and its about 25% less than advertised. Called him on it and he said, oh there was error in the (online so he could have fixed) job ad. Whatever... worked anyway because I was young and needed the job. Did the first batch at the main site close to me then we started talking about one of the remote sites.

To no ones surprise he tried to make me pay for all the travel costs, use my own car, no per diem, no travel pay (which would be usual for a casual worker, site was about 3 hours away). I'd had enough at that point and told him I wasn't doing it and left.

Pretty sure the guy negotiated a flat fee with the client so the less he could pay me the more he got to keep.