A bit of background, I'm currently working in an office by myself, I have extra responsibilities to maintain the office when I could be home, but instead I'm required to show up to this empty office every day. I've been working alone for 2 months now. I'm a recruiter for a transportation company, and when I signed up for this job I was convinced this wasn't anything like sales, but day one they hand me a “pitch” for the program. It's implied that I knew this was the case, as recruiter means selling the company to drivers and whatever, which is fine, I'm socially awkward but it's paying me good so whatever.
Now my boss calls me up, saying he wanted to talk about something with me. Mind you I'm pretty good at beating myself up so I'm thinking I'm fired because I can't recruit drivers (and it's not for lack of trying, I'm just not good at it.) He tells me that they're working on a new incentive program and it's going to be really impressive. First off they're going to cut my pay by 5 dollars an hour, and then every truck I recruit I get 400 dollars.
Problem is, I barely make enough to support myself as is, and with the way things are going (gas prices going up, brokers not increasing pay to meet the hike in gas, etc.) I'm finding it really hard to recruit anyone. So I'm on the phone with this man, and I'm crying because this feels like a pay cut. This feels extremely shady from an already shady company.
I don't know what to do. I'm panicking. I told him how I felt and he said it was above his head. I have bills I need to pay, everything keeps getting more expensive. What should I do? If I quit I risk everything on a gamble I'll find something else before my money runs out. I'm already living paycheck to paycheck.