05-27-2013, 01:22 PM | #1 |
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Being taking advantage of by work. Opinions needed
My wife started her "dream job" teaching ballet last year but things are not all that dream, for me. Her good friend started the studio and things took off. They expected about 80 students and ended up with about 250 the first year which is great.
The pay scale is easily overlooked because of the amount of hours she is required to work that she is not compensated for. She is an employee not a contractor and is only paid for class time teaching not; competitor tream, registration, set up and tear down, meetings, and tons of other time invested equalling over 15-20 hours unpaid time a week. If there not bad enough she has to drive her own car/gas, pay her own hotel, food, and convention fees to the many conventions and comps they do each year. She teaches more classes/students then anyone else and pretty much is the only reason the place is still open. She see(now a little more than at first) nothing wrong with the picture and none of the either teachers do either. I believe she is being taken advantage of and this has caused many issues with us, not the money but the time she volunteers for someone else's success. Am I out of line? Cliffs: wife works 20 hours a week for free for her dream job and is already underpaid. |
05-27-2013, 01:33 PM | #2 | |
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Does your wife have the students herself, or are they members of the school, which she teaches?
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Her do this. It's students of the school but she is the only ballet and pointe teacher and brings in the most money for the business. I believe the owner is just ignorant and is failing to see she is taking advantage of people she calls her friends. She says certain program aren't profitable so employees aren't paid. I don't believe that is a good excuse or legal. |
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scams like this don't last long. the last studio i was at (situation seems very similar), most of the instructors are gone... i'm guessing the studio owner is underwater or close to shutting down. she was paying instructors like $30/class, and now she's teaching almost all the classes. don't think anyone would work like that unless they're really hurtin'. lol Last edited by amanda hor$t; 05-27-2013 at 02:16 PM.. |
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05-27-2013, 02:30 PM | #6 |
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Funny thing of it all is the owner left her old studio for these same reasons.
Umfortantly the wife doesn't want to the rock the boat so it's really just my problem. My solution is to just for her todo the minimum. But that's my solution not hers |
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Does the agreement state she is exempt from FLSA (Fair Labor Standards Act)? Did the original offer/agreement state a certain hourly amount, or a set amount (either weekly, monthly, annually, etc)? |
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Both teachers and parents volunteer to do all the extra work for competitions, shows, exhibition dances, etc. All costumes and extra needed for the show needs to be bought by the parents for the students.
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Another funning thing is I get FLSA true up on my pays tubs from work to the tune of 2-3k a year and no one can explain it. Maybe it's a Balance because the wife is getting screwed. Jk |
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my last w-2 was in 2003. and then i went from a 150k salary consultant to an online swap meet entrepreneur (ebay). everyone loved to criticize... now, they don't write back anymore Last edited by amanda hor$t; 05-27-2013 at 10:04 PM.. |
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That's bizarre you have FLSA-related pay showing up and no one have an idea as to why. Do you work OT and your payroll department simply classifies it as FLSA? When I was hourly, my employer denoted OT pay as "Overtime 1.5/FLSA Non-Exempt" on paychecks. Quote:
So I gave her that option. For a day, I let her try to do my job. She never said shit again after that. |
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Yeah dude...it's that sallary fucking pay thing.
On one hand you havea secure stable source of income but on the other you can be ridden hard. Have her look at her contract to see if she qualifies for overtime...if not then well she is screwed and may have to quit and come back as a contractor. Sorry wish i could give you + advice. |
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05-28-2013, 11:48 AM | #18 |
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all, if her employer required her to travel and do things for the dance studio and she is not paid for it, she maybe able to write it all off on taxes as part of job related expenses not paid by the employer.
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Know more than everyone else about your area and there is no hard riding. I put my 35 Hours in per week and go home. Anything I don't want to do I hand off to my Engineers, and I basically work on big picture Capital allocation projects.
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If she is happy and sees nothing wrong, and her coworkers see nothing wrong then mind your own business.
If I had a job I loved doing I would do extra/outside work for free as well. Maybe there just isn't money to compensate her for the extra effort? You can deduct the gas and car useage, etc as a business expense on your taxes I believe.
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