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I wasn't very sure I'd tweet about this bc honestly there isn't much that can be done about it and it's very frustrating to think of it, but it just won't stop rolling around my mind and I have to let it out in some way.
So, if you noticed I became a lot more active artistically mid last month is bc I've been unemployed for a while. Won't come into details on the story since there isn't much to tell and I honestly hold no grudges despite everything.
Thing is I started working as a graphic designer for a small business by the end of January of this year, everything ran smoothly until March 20, when quarantine started in my country. At first things were more or less alright, boss kept getting requests and I had work to do.
The issues didn't take long to come, and after a couple weeks (I was promised a weekly salary) nothing happened. I just let it slide as I know the economy in the country went to shit, and I have no big expenses anyway.
I just kept working while expecting the boss to maybe save up until she gets the chance to pay me, we even agreed on a 60% deal since there were some days there was nothing to do.
Time went by, work kept flowing semi-regularly and I didn't see a penny. When confronted about it, the boss only promised she'd pay everything at once by the end of the week... nothing.
The story kept repeating itself every week for almost 3 months, until the last confrontation where she was told that unpaid work cannot keep taking priority. That was the last time she communicated.
Last month was complete radio silence from her end, and to this day I haven't heard from her. Last thing I knew was she caught the virus and she had to go to the hospital, but she recovered.
And look, like I said in the beginning of this thread, I don't hold it against her or anything, but I can't muster much sympathy for someone who's taken advantage of my work and even after there was an agreement to lower my salary she still couldn't pay me.
Legally there's nothing I can do about it, since there wasn't a formal contract, but honestly I don't think I care about that or the money anymore. If anything I'm just frustrated that all that time I spent working, all that stress, all those panic attacks...
I could've focused on giving priority to the pending commissions I had, had I known she wasn't going to pay me. I took her time and her business seriously enough to leave my own projects aside.
I wasn't the only one affected by this, my sis was on the same spot as me until the very end and she was the one who tried to reach out to be ghosted.
I dunno, man. I just needed to get this out of my system...
I'm not in a super bad position yet, so I wouldn't want to use this thread to garner sympathy to sell commissions or anything. I just recently delivered one that I had to delay for so long...
I'm not in a super bad position yet, so I wouldn't want to use this thread to garner sympathy to sell commissions or anything. I just recently delivered one that I had to delay for so long...
Anyway. School started again and I need to get my shit together.
