Maybe he just needs to lose his business to learn a lesson. Do you have any idea how long it will be before you can just jump ship? This isn't a good environment for you to be working in and some people just can't admit being wrong or making mistakes. It's a reflection on HIM, not on you. Even if you are the one who would ultimately be doing the work, HE is the one responsible for making sure you have what you need to do that work. The contract is that he pay you for doing work.... He doesn't pay you, you aren't contractually obligated to do the work. At least that is how it SHOULD work. You said he was holding your pay hostage... Can you hold the work hostage? Do it, but don't agree to give it to the client until your boss pays you? Or can you arrange something with the client that they pay your part directly to you instead of the company? I don't know how it's set up, but I know my husband works for specific clients and his boss schedules in how many hours he is to work in a week on each project. His salary basically covers so much per hour a week, so he can calculate how much of his salary comes from each project. I would think that if your boss is threatening not to pay you, you could just go to the client and explain the situation and see if they would be willing to go around your boss?or can you maybe quit and work on a freelance basis for clients? Like... Start your own business? This is all so unfair to you... It would be great if you had a way to turn the tables on your boss.
Thanks for the suggestions
@Songbird76 !
And I honestly would need 2 months of pay before I can jump ship.
I'm moving to Canada to study and visit.
If I can get a job earlier (wish me luck, I have one interview at 5:00 pm today) I will move earlier as well.
And yes, it seems that the boss explicitly wanted to just get out of this company.
Ironically I found suspicious one line where he proudly said about his "entrepreneur spirit" and how many of "his business failed and how many he created to move forward in his success."
So I guess he just leapfrogs to new companies while he lets the ones he knows are failing( or not worth his effort) to become dumpsters fires that end crash and burning.
Ironically, my job is salaried. He shouldn't be able to pull this stunt. I do not get paid by hour. I get paid flat per month for doing whatever he wants for a X/Y time frames (as long its in my scope. I can't do surgeon jobs for example).
But he consistently (on convenience, this is the 4th time) where he wants me to obtain my money by billing my work time to someone else not of the company. Which makes no sense as most of my work used to be managerial stuff, account and system IT management, support/help, first contact, leads..etc.. which are internal project tasks.
As for going around the clients. I would, but these are multi people projects. I'm the QA guy while there is a developer.
Now they want me to be first contact, project manager, dealer and QA at same time with the posibility of not getting paid of anything, since this needs to be billed to the client and needs to be on a budget. And by experience in this company... they somehow have missed/passed the budget many times.
I could try freelancing I guess, but its not as easy as it seems. Almost every company I know in the tech industry... wants someone they can see, attest and be available at will.
Something that I have gotten annoyed from some of the work offers I have tried in the past (Example: They wanted me to be all day available, not work for someone regardless if its a ghosttown, and that they could only pay me the active work hours).
Well see what life has to give me.
though Matt Damon looks terrible in the trailer.