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Applied for a 1099 job assembling grills and stuff at Home Depot

I got a call for the interview and was told it's full time and that I'd have to drive up to a few hours a day. I would only be getting 40% per item for the first 20 items and then 50% for the next 20 and upwards of 60% for anything over 60. The per item rate was between $10-20 and takes anywhere from 15-30 minutes to assemble and that doesn't include the time it takes me to get the items pulled. So I figure I would realistically be getting at most $20 an hour. Now this isn't terrible until you consider that I might be driving 4 hours round trip and arrive to discover they only had 10 items to assemble and get half of $75 for 2 hours of work and 4 hours on the road which would cost me roughly $15 in gas. So for 6…


I got a call for the interview and was told it's full time and that I'd have to drive up to a few hours a day. I would only be getting 40% per item for the first 20 items and then 50% for the next 20 and upwards of 60% for anything over 60. The per item rate was between $10-20 and takes anywhere from 15-30 minutes to assemble and that doesn't include the time it takes me to get the items pulled. So I figure I would realistically be getting at most $20 an hour. Now this isn't terrible until you consider that I might be driving 4 hours round trip and arrive to discover they only had 10 items to assemble and get half of $75 for 2 hours of work and 4 hours on the road which would cost me roughly $15 in gas. So for 6 hours I'd net around $22 and that's before I pay income tax and 100% of my SS and medicaid. Now this is obviously a worst case scenario, but I'm sure not uncommon. The biggest issue is that the company I'm working for would be making $37.50 for just telling me to go to the store. I asked the person who was interviewing me how it makes sense to only pay 50% of the money that they're getting and I'm doing all the work? She tried to tell me it was Home Depot who set the rate, which makes zero sense.

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