Employer fair play or foul?

Re: Employer fair play or foul?

Technically contractor/client arrangement. The framework of the job was very loosely defined for a long time though, it's only recently the client has been imposing more structure, control.

All moot, moving on time is nigh.
 
Re: Employer fair play or foul?

"Run to the hills, run for your life"

We have all had customer relationships going bad at some point. Find a polite way of ending this, thank them for the business or whatever it takes to make them feel okay, then exit stage left and never look back.

You might run into them at some point later, so try to end it in a nice way.
 
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May I ask why is your rate so low? Without getting into a rant, giving it away is the problem with this industry. I'm assuming that is for 1 hour of work and you have several of these sets lined up per day? 6 years is a LONG time. Longer than many marriages. Longer than most prison sentences too. One of the best ways to raise your rates is to change clients every so often. When you reach the pay limit of one, go on to the next. What is also amazing is how much respect you get as your fee goes up. Not the other way around. I tried it your way for years as well. I spent 8 years with the same band and charged little.
 
Re: Employer fair play or foul?

The laws in Australia determining contractor vs employee are similar to the US:

Contractor or employee? - Independent contractors - Employment - Fair Work Ombudsman

An interesting piece of law in Australia is that you can't pay a contractor less than you would pay an employee to do the job.

Independent Contractors Act - Independent contracts - Employment - Fair Work Ombudsman

Now, for 2 hours of work, $40 to a contractor equals about $20/hr. Not bad pay, although the 2 hour shift sucks.
 
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Yeah but this is like what Harry wrote - and the legend of the old mechanic called in fix a machine, chalks an X and says fix this and sends them a bill for $10K - $1 for the chalk, $9,999 to know where to put it.

Also committing yourself to be there for a few hour may also prevent you from working somewhere else - even for the same hourly rate, but lots more hours.

Andrew
 
Re: Employer fair play or foul?

May I ask why is your rate so low?
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Took that job when I was a no skills nobody with nothing but enthusiasm going for me. Stayed there when I got better because I really liked what they were doing for local music and I saw the music happening at a loss. Now that my good will has dissipated, I'm ready to call bullshit on that (but you know, very politely and with due notice). I wouldn't be surprised if they find someone else to do it for $40, a lot of people claiming to be techs, not much work. You're right about the respect going up with the rate though (only figured that out a few months ago). I want me some of that!! :-)

On the specifics of the job, it was all very vague really, set up and sound check, up until recently they didn't specify When precisely and it was never attached to a time frame - hence my surprise at the boss laying down the law like that ( I thought we were all friends here). I used to handball that gig to other starving techs when better work came up.
 
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