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Originally Posted by tattookitty
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Originally Posted by Cluggy619
It amazes me that you are even considering calling your husband a "weenie" for keeping a job that is paying $16 an hour to start.
Your answer is NO. He should keep that job until he builds some time up in a rig. After getting a year or two driving experience under his belt, doors will open up for him.
And he is RIGHT when he tells you that no company will pay that amount to someone with no experience in a rig. He is also RIGHT when he tells you that working with what he gots now will help him in the future.
Now if you want to talk about the "really real world", why don't you try cutting back on your spending, or even get yourself a job. Most families need two incomes.
Just a thought.
I'm sorry if I rubbed you the wrong way. It's hard to convey entire situations in one post, and I suppose I shouldn't have called him a "weenie" without a 45 page explanation why I felt that necessary. Suffice to say, my dissatisfaction is with the pay he's getting from his mother when she pays another guy who does the EXACT same job (HVAC) as my husband $28/hr - and hubby worked for his parents company since he was about 16 (except while he was deployed, obviously) She "forgets" to pay our insurance premiums, which is less than she pays for her employees because we take it through the Army. She "forgets" to add his overtime in. She "forgets" to reimburse him for his fuel when he drives his own car to work (because she won't give him a work van of his own) He's doing oil deliveries 1 day a week - to me, that doesn't seem to be "big experience" in a "rig"
I wouldn't take this sort of behavior from a regular employer, and it downright infuriates me to take it from a member of the family. I hate mixing money and family - it never works out.
As for my own employment, I'm a full-time student, a part-time seamstress and a full-time mother. I'm doing the best *I* can do right now, to be home with my children where my husband wants me.
Like I said, I tend to babble.. my intentions are good, and I apologize again if I came off the wrong way. Sometimes my tone can be taken wrong by people who don't know me very well.
Have a good one.
-Nicole
First, this responce was changed because it was too harsh for this situation. So you must have received it quickly. The new information was not in the last post, so now my thinking has to be re-adjusted. So let me take this one at a time.
Pay. Even though $16 perhour is good pay for a local driver, his pay should be the same as the other who works if they are truely getting $28 /hr.
1 day a week. Are you Kidding me? He only works one day a week? I find this hard to believe that he would only work so little. However, if that is the case, then you have a perfect right to call him a "weenie", plus a few other names that most other people would.
Glad to see that at least you are working and trying to go to school. Keep up the good work.
Over all, most of what is here was NOT on your first post. With a clearer understanding of what is going on, I'm changing my views on this subject. Along with my opionion.
If what you say is true, and he is NOT doing his best to support he's family, tell him to get off his lazy but, and get some work.