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Well last Friday on the 18th I got my first paycheck. I punched out of work, got my paycheck, and waited outside. My ride took a while to come so I decided to open my first paycheck and see all the money I've earned in this week. Now I had worked over 30 hours from Friday the 11th til the 18th.
I wasn't even supposed to work the 18th but they called and asked if I could go, so I figured sure why not. At first I almost said no but then remembered that the day they called was Thursday and not Friday meaning I would've been working on Friday not Saturday. The issue with this is, considering Sam has school, I try to get Friday or Saturday night to talk to her, so if I can get Saturday or Sunday off, I can talk to her all night, the night before. So once I realized the day they called me was Thursday, not Friday, I told them sure. More hours so of course. Plus if I wanted my check, I'd have to go by JoAnns and pick it up, so I killed two birds with one stone doing this.
So back to Friday. I open my paycheck expecting 30+ hours worth of money in there. At $8.00 an hour there should be plenty in there. I open it up and see only $90.58 in it! I'm thinking "Not for nothing but ********!". Part of me is telling me to be grateful for the money I get considering if i didn't have this job I wouldn't be making ANY money, but I worked hard this week! Woke up at 5am to work from 6am to 2! Even went in that day that was suppose to be my day off! I deserve more than 90 dollars. It's not about being greedy, it's about not being screwed over.
So that made me freak out a bit but I figured there's gotta be some explanation for this. If there isn't, and I'm going to be making only $90 a week, I'm going to have to quit this job. The time and effort I put in this job for the payment is not enough. On top of that, my ride was late. I mean REAL late. First two days, I noticed I lose track of time. I'd get out a half hour after I said I'd be out so my ride would have to wait a long time and that wasn't fair. I brought a watch so I'm on top of things, and even told my ride to pick me up a half hour after I get out so I have time to finish things before leaving. I waited and waited. An hour was about to pass and I'm still waiting, already annoyed about the paycheck. On top of that, customers that walk by, I'm supposed to smile. Normally I don't have any problem with off the clock smiling but I really didn't have it in me. I smiled but.. they weren't real smiles. Kind of like " biggrin ******** off... you're shopping at a back stabbing store." I of course didn't say that but you get the idea.
An hour passed and I figured ******** it, and went inside to use the phone. I try not to make social calls out of respect for the store but.. jesus christ. Lucys like "Jamil? You've been waiting out there for an hour? o.o" "Yea. My patience is at it's limit... mind letting me use the phone?" So I called and because of "miss communication" no one knew to pick me up. I could tolerate them being late to pick me up, especially with new money in my pocket, but the whole $90.58 for 30+ hours didn't exactly help.
That's the flat out bad day movie I had for that hour. Behind the scenes is the funny part. Evick and Luz picked me up and explained certain stores tend to withhold half of your paycheck and give it back to you if for what ever reason they need to lay off some people. I was still unsure about it seeing as it was $90.58 for 12 hours. Multiply both by 2 and it'd be 181.16 for 24 hours. I worked more than 24 hours I knew for a fact. At LEAST 30 (and that's being modest cause it was over). So the numbers didn't add up exactly but I excused it. Decided to wait for my next paycheck and see how it balances out. I hung out with my dad the other day, which I'll talk about in another entry, and he confirmed about some companies withholding money on your first week.
I was a bit unsure, but it made the day fine cause I knew I was making $8 an hour and will be making plenty in 2 weeks. So my bad day turned out to be good. It was a good day in general, only the paycheck part that hurled the good day to the ground making it a bad one.
To add to this, I believe yesterday, Lucy and I were on our breaks and we were talking and she explained that the $90 wasn't half withheld or anything. It's a little complicated but they were paying me for the first and second day I worked which was just Friday and Saturday which ends that week. The week I had worked, wasn't included in the paycheck, it'll be included in the next paycheck along with this week. Next week is payday, but that week wont be counted until the following paycheck. So that made perfect sense, and $90.58 for two days? I can't complain. So yea. Pretty funny first paycheck experience.
 Reyu` · Tue Sep 22, 2009 @ 09:50pm · 1 Comments |
