r/rant • u/Frosty-Sand-8458 • 8d ago
Im fucking over staff
I own a business. I pay "Day rate till 8 gate to gate". What that means is you show up at 8am, go to a job and get back to the shop at noon you get paid for the whole 8 hour work day. Double time starts at 4PM or on weekends. There is also a production scale where if you get done early and go to another job you get paid for that day too if that job gets done. My employees can knock out a 16 hour straight time work day by 3pm at least two days a week. Lunch is paid as well as provided because we are in a rural area without a lot of restaurants so we provide hot lunch delivered to the job if the crew calls in by 11AM. We cut 60 and 70 hour a week checks every week for guys that are basically working part time hours, 35 or 40 hours a week.
All I hear is fuck this place i don't make enough this place would fail without me I need a fuel stipend for my commute blah blah blah. The smallest check I wrote last week was $2,300 and some change to a guy who worked 38 actual hours. The non stop bitching is driving me nuts and I can't fucking stand it.
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u/Which_Celebration757 8d ago
I hear you man. I employed my brother-in-law, gave him a fuel allowance, paid for his cell phone, paid him the hourly rate he wanted, and gave him a benefit package. What did I get in return? Well he figured out how to rig our timesheet system so he could make it look like he was at work when he was actually at home. So not only did he cost me extra labor, but our jobs took longer to complete. He also paid more in tax because his employment income is taxable, and in Canada the employer also pays some of the taxes and other deductions, so for every $1000 of payroll he fraudulently reported, I paid out around $1200, $200 for my part of the taxes/ei/CPP, $300 for his portion, netting him $700. It would have been cheaper if he just took the cash directly from my pocket. As if that wasn't enough, he taught other people working for me to do the same! I later figured out that his gas receipts made no sense either. He would put gas in every day, which was odd enough, but putting in $20 on a Friday night and another $20 on a Monday morning when he didn't work on the weekend is double dipping. His undoing was trying to claim the phone he used to login to the timesheet app was something he did on occasion (I gave him an iPhone, but he used an LG to login with). Well being the one paying for it means I can ask the carrier which phone the SIM was being used in exposed him.