I'm a recruiter and I work remotely full time. I'm with a very small staffing firm where it's just me and my “boss” in the staffing department (I use quotation marks because she doesn't see herself as my boss, more like a friend/equal). She reports directly to the CEO. As a recruiter, my pay is a base salary plus commission. My boss and I both took pay cuts to work here because of the flexibility it offers, so our base salary makes things tight to rely on. We've been incredibly slow with the economy how it is lately so there hasn't been any commission for either of us in a few months. My last commission was earned in January and was nearly $1800 for a single placement I made in December.
Previously, if we had a placement quit before 90 days of employment, we would issue a refund and be responsible for paying back the commission. I e always thought that was ridiculous. In all the commission jobs I've worked that has never been a thing. Well with my December placement, she quit, but it was after 90 days. We didn't have to refund anything based on our contract, but the CEO still opted to refund $6k to save face. Since it wasn't a normal refund, I had no idea I'd be responsible for paying back my commission (that I spent on bills several months ago). That is, until I got my paycheck Monday and it was only $400 total. I called my boss asap and she called the CEO to find out what happened. They took it up on themselves to take $900 from my paycheck for the refunded commission! Now my account is negative because they took such a large amount of my check the day before my mortgage payment came out of my account without telling me!
I'm so freaking mad…