>>508738124 (OP)I worked for a white guy doing contracting work.
I was hired to do one trade, I had a partial education in, and maybe only 1/10 of the time I worked for the guy, was I being given work to do that involved that trade.
Any day I showed up, I had no clue what type of work would be assigned, or where.
He barely provided safety gear.
He was supposed to be supplying tools, especially since I usually wasn’t working a trade I had been educated in.
I was paid $15 an hour, which I initially agreed to on the basis I would work for him for a week, so he could judge whether I was worth hiring, and then he would transfer me to an official worker with tax forms and higher pay.
He never paid me more, or went legal with me as an employee.
He complained about “time theft”, about me answering my cell phone, and saying “at work, can’t” before hanging up. This might have happened twice a day at most, and usually not at all.
Meanwhile, I was supposed to show up and get driven to the work location, but he would routinely be late leaving, and then start my billing time an hour late because he didn’t bother organizing his work.
As for the cell phone, this was before smart phones were in common use, and he needed me to check the weather for him, because he was too lazy or careless to look up the forecast himself in the morning or day before.
I wasn’t perfect, and was trying to dig myself out of a hole, hence mostly no tools and putting up with the crap for some money, and also some of the places he did work were places I would otherwise not have been able to get into.
The guy had a degree and had been an engineering student at a university, and routinely wasn’t able to look up basic stuff, including how to do certain types of work.
