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I’ve been working for my fathers cable contracting business for the past 9 years. I worked during breaks from high school and college from the age of 17 and full-time after college, and have always taken on a lot of responsibility, certainly at times a lot more than I’d ever handled before. For example I fell into a supervisory positions to help start projects with teams of guys by the time I was 18 years old. Responsibilities would include interviewing hiring / training / running a route, and also making sure that the routes get done. Recently we’ve taken on a different type of work where we re-wire apartment complexes in another part of the state. I moved over from routes, and took on the responsibility of doing these jobs, since they had to be done to very good detail. My younger brother who has worked for the company on and off for probably a cumulative time period of 3 months actually ran one of the first smaller projects with my father before he left for another job and graduate school. I jumped in for him when he left, even though I’ve been doing this type of work for a long time. After doing work that the cable company has really liked, we recieved more work, and when I went to go survey the complexes, my father said, Hey, these jobs will be great, why don’t we pay you 10-15% off the invoice.
I started the jobs under the impression I was going to be paid this amount of money, which was very exciting for me. So months in, after another project, I asked him the details again of the incentive, and he said he meant 10% of the gross profit.
So months later after finishing a few projects I created spreadsheets outlining total business expenses for the projects versus total invoice so the profit was very clear. So I mentioned to him again that I’d done that and he said that he’d have to review it in detail because there were other expenses that he had to include such as his insurance and other things that I wasn’t taking into account, but that he would get back to me on it.
So months later again I mentioned it and same thing pretty much, he’ll get back to me.
So now, so deathly afraid to ask, because I was nervous he was trying to side step me and that it really upsets me because it’s my own father and not only am i disappointed that he would have business ethics like that but that he would try to rip his own son off, I casually just mentioned while on the topic of invoices that I was nervous to bring it up but I was just wondering what he wanted to do with that.
Basically he said the same thing that he’s gonna have to look at it but that because I’ve been paid salary, and there were weeks that I didn’t work the full 40 hours and I since I went on a vacation, and since I’m also taking a class online for graduate school and some work days I haven’t been at the jobsite, that the money has been taken from any "bonus" or anything that he had promised me. So it’s not looking good but he’ll have to look into it.
So then my mom got on the phone and basically just said that money is tight right now and that if I was told and promised that I would get paid that money than I should get paid, but that now is not a good time to be talking about money because things are tight right now. That makes me feel a lot better I think my mom is a much better business person.
I explained to them that I really don’t want any money from them, and that I’d rather just drop the issue if it was going to come between us. And that I was simply asking. Having them as parents and having a good relationship to me is not worth ruining over 5000 or 10000 dollars.
After my mom said this, he then was like, yeah sure, we’ll work it out, well figure it out, you’ll get paid, we’ll sit down and figure it out.
I am devastated by this. How do I handle it? How can my dad be so crooked. He says he is an upfront business man but I can’t believe he would try to do this? I’ve heard in the past that people have tried to go against my dad in court for not being a fair boss, but all I’ve ever heard from him and my mom is that these people were messed up and out to get him because they wanted something for nothing. I believe that’s true but I am starting to wonder now for the first time if my dad is kind of a shiesty business person.
Am I in the wrong? Help!
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