Anonymous
09/09/2013 12:37
Subject: Nanny needs help
Didn't you realize the check was much larger when you seen it?
Anonymous
09/09/2013 12:11
Subject: Nanny needs help
HELP? My MB had told me three things the week prior, all in the same breath:
#1: they accidentally overpaid me by almost two whole weeks' of full-time salary.
#2: they are enrolling Tot in full-time daycare immediately
#3: they are cutting me down to minimal hours (approximately 12-19 weekly) until they find someone full-full-time for Wee Babe.
Keeping in mind they "never got around" to hashing my contract out completely (after months and months), and while they *had* taken my advice to use Breedlove & Associates for payroll/taxes, they also reported that I was being paid scads more per hour, and working less hours bi-weekly than I was. "It evens out," is what they said. They had avoided taxing payroll (even estimating it), and just written me personal payday checks and then another check weekly for expenses (mileage and food/supplies). After enlisting B&A, they realized, "WOW, we owe back taxes!" and started just applying my mileage and supply cost to the back taxes, so I wouldn't have to turn around and write them a personal check after my payroll was deposited.
Okay...? Well, I'm not in trouble legally, B&A assures me, but I'm also, apparently, not going to get paid for a while, because they overpaid me so much in the check that was deposited right after they told me Those Three Things. My schedule is whatever they want it to be (example: I texted MB last weekend to say, "When would you like me this week?" It is now halfway through what used to be my first day with Tot, and no word from MB. Oookay?), so I have no guarantee of hours.
I would like to just write them a check for taxes still owed, plus the payroll amount which would bring me back to zero. That way, going forward, I'm *earning*, not working away a debt I did not wish to incur.
I'm also on state insurance, and had JUST had my six-month evaluation the day before I was told Those Three Things. Now how do I explain to my social worker that I am not, in fact, earning what I was earning the week of my interview, especially since my most recent check is way bigger than any payout I've received from them, and have nothing new to show?
TL;dr? I don't want to owe my NF money, and have my personal resources in trouble because of it. I want to leave this family feeling good about my contribution, not like they were being deceptive.
#1: they accidentally overpaid me by almost two whole weeks' of full-time salary.
#2: they are enrolling Tot in full-time daycare immediately
#3: they are cutting me down to minimal hours (approximately 12-19 weekly) until they find someone full-full-time for Wee Babe.
Keeping in mind they "never got around" to hashing my contract out completely (after months and months), and while they *had* taken my advice to use Breedlove & Associates for payroll/taxes, they also reported that I was being paid scads more per hour, and working less hours bi-weekly than I was. "It evens out," is what they said. They had avoided taxing payroll (even estimating it), and just written me personal payday checks and then another check weekly for expenses (mileage and food/supplies). After enlisting B&A, they realized, "WOW, we owe back taxes!" and started just applying my mileage and supply cost to the back taxes, so I wouldn't have to turn around and write them a personal check after my payroll was deposited.
Okay...? Well, I'm not in trouble legally, B&A assures me, but I'm also, apparently, not going to get paid for a while, because they overpaid me so much in the check that was deposited right after they told me Those Three Things. My schedule is whatever they want it to be (example: I texted MB last weekend to say, "When would you like me this week?" It is now halfway through what used to be my first day with Tot, and no word from MB. Oookay?), so I have no guarantee of hours.
I would like to just write them a check for taxes still owed, plus the payroll amount which would bring me back to zero. That way, going forward, I'm *earning*, not working away a debt I did not wish to incur.
I'm also on state insurance, and had JUST had my six-month evaluation the day before I was told Those Three Things. Now how do I explain to my social worker that I am not, in fact, earning what I was earning the week of my interview, especially since my most recent check is way bigger than any payout I've received from them, and have nothing new to show?
TL;dr? I don't want to owe my NF money, and have my personal resources in trouble because of it. I want to leave this family feeling good about my contribution, not like they were being deceptive.