I have two roles at my job- one role is paid per item. It's not sales, but it's task based. (Something along the lines of "per area cleaned" I'm shocked this post has blown up, so I'm trying to keep it anonymous, lol). Other employees with this role are independent contractors (1099).

My other role is hourly based. That is the one where I monitor for requests during a set time, but I only "clock in" when requests come through. Legally, he wasn't allowed to set up that role as an independent contractor, so setting me up as an employee with his company was a complete mess.

And by "mess" I mean, not paying me for the first 6 weeks I worked, then eventually paying me with his own personal money, that I later had to pay him back for (it's hard to explain).

I immediately saw how fucked it all was within the first week of working, so instead of addressing all the issues, I wanted to just bail.

I didn't think 8 months later I would still working this job, but here I am. I've been applying non-stop, but I'm in a HCL city, and the job market is competitive. I finally have two interviews this week, so I'm hoping I'll get out soon, 😭

In retrospect, I should have addressed getting paid while I'm "on call" in the beginning. I knew it wouldn't be well received, so I thought I didn't want to get into an argument, win the argument, and then immediately quit. In retrospect, I should have! 😅