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Subcontractor's Experience and Unfair Termination

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I got FIRED asking for a $2 dollar raise.

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The creator shares a personal and emotive story about his five-year tenure as a snow plowing subcontractor for a company he considered "extremely reliable." He explains how he consistently gave his own employees raises but never received one himself. Upon asking the head office for a $2/hour raise to pass onto his team, he was abruptly fired without negotiation. He also recounts an instance where the same company's area manager orchestrated a "power trip" by forcing his crew to wait on site until 12:15 AM on New Year's Eve on bare pavement, purely for a show of authority, despite no ongoing snowfall.

Goal: Understand challenges and unfair practices in snow plowing subcontracting.

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i'm going to jump in here because some stories i just can't make up and this one is a hundred percent true but i got fired over two dollars an hour uh i was a subcontractor and i'd been snowplowing for this company that considered themselves to be extremely reliable when it comes to snow plowing so as a subcontractor i wanted to live every bit up to that i possibly could so when it came to snow plowing at the end of my shift every single time i would call into my area manager and go hey how's all of your other crews doing not just how we did but how was the guys that i have absolutely nothing connected with doing understanding that my area manager is still has responsible for all of those properties and if there's something that i can do to help make his job easier well i think teamwork goes a long way i did that for five years and after five years this i'd never gotten a single race and i decided i'd been giving my guys raises every single year like clockwork because i figured good teammates they're worth the extra money but after five years of me absorbing all the costs i figured well let's go into the head office and meet with the guy that sees over the entire company oh and hey while i'm here just by sheer coincidence i happen to have a new neighbor and he works for a company that seems to be very reliable now i'm not going to say that that's the exact same company just an interesting coincidence could it be that that's the company i'm talking about i'm not saying that at all that could be a different company that's very reliable so i walk into the main office with the head guy and i've actu i was actually told hey be a little bit careful and i'm gonna now i'm i don't want to piss you guys off but i'm gonna tell you straight up what i was told he's a shorter guy and he's got an attitude i'm like well i've done good work for five years what do i care now i've been doing giving out all the raises and never had gotten a single race from this company in five years so this was my very first time asking and the guy looked at me without missing a beat and he says well stan just doesn't look like it's gonna work out anymore and i stopped and i'm like wait a minute what do you mean by that and he's like well we're just not gonna need your services anymore and he fired me right then and there it was it was no it was we we didn't negotiate back and forth i just said hey i just want to get a two dollar an hour race so i can give it directly to all of the guys that…

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