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I currently work for a pool company that is questionable in it’s business practices. We get paid a percentage of the route we run (i clean 86 pools a week, several of them are commercial pools that i visit several times a week). Our pay stub comes in the form of a spreadsheet that is so confusing that the office manager cannot even clearly explain to me what I make. The dollar amount of the chemicals we use is not to exceed 13% of the route gross, and if it does we have that amount deducted from our pay at the end of twelve months. We have $8.00 per week deducted from our checks for ‘uniform cleaning charge’. We do not carry company cell phones, but the store and customers call us on our personal phones. If a customer calls and a manager goes to check the problem, they take money from our checks. It does go to the extreme, ie a route tech left a hose on and the company charged him $600. One tech was charged $3000 for a heater that corroded which the company owner attributed to a chlorine tab being left in a skimmer basket.

The company owner is about to give us GPS enabled phones so he can track our movements. If we spend less time at a pool than they estimate it should take, our pay is docked. If we spend more time at a pool, we do not get any extra pay, however.

I took this job because I was laid off from my last job (in bookkeeping) and had no other choice, and this job is superior than not eating and not being able to feed my family.

I have been offered a job at a pool building company, doing fixes and turning the pools over from a say of construction to the customer. I will have to learn some new things, but have no doubts about my capability to learn.

I want to take the new job because I think I will like it more, but am hesitant to make a move because I know when I leave the current company it will burn a bridge. On top of this I am completing my bachelor’s degree in bookkeeping (this will take at least another year and a half) and do not plan on doing this forever. The new company stated that class should not be a problem as far as scheduling is concerned.

I do not want to be selfish (I have a wife and kid) and take another job just so I can feel better, and I do not like job hopping, which I am prone to do, because I am always looking for something better. I am depressed doing what I have to do, and I constantly feel paranoid that I will get some large bill from my own company! I even go so far as to take photos of each pool when I leave, which is just crazy. I just feel hesitant to leave a job that does pay the bills; I am scared to take a leap.