I currently get paid a salary, plus a percentage of the final discounted job ticket. It's a fucking dumb way of getting paid and I don't know how long I'm going to put up with it. We had a job a while ago and the field ticket came out to $16,000. Nice enough for a day's work. The trouble is that the ticket got discounted in town to $6000, so now instead of making a dollar, I make 37 cents.
The even sweeter part of the deal is that no one tells us what the final ticket is, and jobs done this month are paid at the end of next month. So I can do that $16,000 job on July 1, have it discounted in town to $6000, no one will tell me they've done it, and I won't know it until I see my paycheck on August 31. I don't know how anyone can live like that. The advice I get from the people I work with is "just don't think about it."
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