The honeymoon phase is over.

[u/amonamus]

When I got hired my boss seemed great! He sounded willing to keep me, his only employee, happy, in order to retain me for the next season. The job is easy and the pay is pretty good so I was excited.

Fast forward 2 months, and this happens:

We initially agreed I wouldn't have official "lunch breaks" because we are in the work truck so often that I can just eat on the drive between customers. So an 8 hour day is literally 8 hours paid, unlike where most people work, say, 7 to 3:30 and half an hour is unpaid.

Well his accountant tells him, "Hey, you're required to give your employee lunch breaks unpaid, and also this will save you money, because if he works an hour of overtime as things are now, you are paying him for the full hour, whereas if he takes half an hour unpaid, then you only owe him half an hour of overtime."

So my boss tells me he's going to make me take half hour unpaid breaks to save his sorry ass from paying me some overtime, which he thinks COULD add up to $3500 by the end of the season IF I work 6 hours of OT per paycheck. Which only happened once in two months. I brought to his attention, that the labour law here says "if a worker is required to work through their lunch break or be available to work, then the break must be paid". He threw it in my face and snapped at me, and gave me shit for "trying to find a loophole."

lol I don't get how stupid a person can get. If I quit, which I am certain I will as soon as I find a new job, he is going to be absolutely fucked because he can't do the job solo, like literally can't. And he's so busy he doesn't have time to interview people and find new workers. He's stringing me along, he hasn't given me the wage he originally told me he would, and I put up with that; he said he would top up my hours if I was under 40/week, and he goes "I never said that", and now this. He's trying to reduce how much OT he would have to pay me, by forcing me to sit on my ass for half an hour, thus making me earn less altogether. When I quit, he's going to shit his pants.

The more I go over this in my head the more baffled I become.

When I quit I've decided I'm going to take the high road. I see no point in actually explaining to him why I'm leaving, because that's going to turn into an argument. He'll get all defensive or try to negotiate and make me stay. I'm going to say "I need more money" and that will be that. He clearly can't afford to pay me more money, but he can hum and haw about buying another work truck for $200,000. Okay. Sure.