| My course which I was really enjoying
teaching and my students liked doing came to an end on Wednesday.
(I had found that the company were
lying when they said they couldn't possibly pay me more than $5 an hour,
in fact they were probably earning more than $20, so I was a little bit
pissed off)
I had sent a fax 3 weeks previously
to my boss saying that the students wanted to do another course and I would
teach it if I got more money. I had hoped he would be busy organising it
, but he never contacted me to negotiate terms. So I thought that when
I went to the office on Thursday to pick up my wages he would negotiate
with me then. I presumed his technique was to play the strong man and save
the negotiation to the last minute to put pressure on me.
I hate doing business with people you
can't trust , it's too stressful. You have to be paranoid and think of
every possibility. I was wondering what technique he was going to come
up with in order to pay me less. I decided I needed to be very firm ..I
would get paid for this project , then I would negotiate. If they didn't
want to pay the money I wanted , I wouldn't let them bully me. I would
leave and go to Peru , as I had to leave the country and re-enter soon
to get a new visa anyway.
In the end we didn't even negotiate.
I had sent him a fax asking when I would get paid and I understood he said
on the telephone he would pay me on the day after the end of the project.
They kept me waiting 2 hours , then he gave the salary for last month I
looked at it and asked him when he would pay me the money for the rest
of the project. He went crazy shouting ...I had to trust him , he wasn't
a thief , he was a super-Christian etc he was raving for about ten minutes.
..BTW wasn't Adolf Hitler a Christian
too . I seen people all over the world who call themselves Christians because
they go to church on Sundays , but six days of the week they don't behave
in a very Christian way !
(Well if he's a Christian ..let God
judge him !)
I asked him to calm down and said I
only wanted to know when I would get paid.
He eventually came up with this
plan ..I would continue working as normal while he negotiated with the
students , then if there was no agreement he would pay me. I wasn´t
going to let him bully me into working for the same money . I could see
his negotiations going on for 1 week, 2 weeks etc . Why hadn't he negotiated
already ?
I thought I could just leave, it was
only $35, but then I thought NO I worked for this money I'm not going to
let him keep it . I told him no way the project had finished, I wanted
to be paid now and I wouldn't work until we negotiated new terms. He said
he didn´t have the money. I said "I won't leave this office until
you pay me". He disappeared upstairs and a minute later came with the money,
and whe was not in a good mood as he escorted me to the door.
I prefer to do business in a friendly
way , then you can get a win: win situation. By forcing me to show I could
be tough and Cabron like them .They lost, I lost and the students lost |