I once worked for this guy who told me he couldn’t afford to pay me that week, then literally 5 minutes later was on the phone with his buddy talking about the new Harley he was going to buy

So when your boss says he can't afford to pay you, 9 times out of 10 it's a load of shit I work as a contractor, and alot of the homes I work on are on the nicer side and belong to alot of business owners They need to pay for that new mercedes and their wifes fake rack somehow. And guess how they do it? they underpay the shit out of their employees