So things have been a little turbulent for me lately. For the last year or so, the company I work for enacted cost-cutting measures. These include:
- A permanent cut to my pay of $5000/year. There was also an additional 20% reduction in 2009 under a work-share program. I lived under the poverty line before they eliminated that 20% cut a few months ago.
- They artificially fluffed up my pay by under-taxing me for all of 2009. I didn’t find out until Revenue Canada required that I pay them $1400 this April. I was also under-taxed for the first half 2010, so I have to dock an additional 15% from my pay to make up for this year’s mismanagement.
- The company also recalled all of the employee’s advances without prior warning. I have to pay back $1650 to be split over the next 4 paycheques. They refuse to extend the payout over a greater period of time. So that’s $825 less a month that I’ll be making for the next two months. This shoots me back beneath the poverty line.
Despite these shitty measures, I’m actually doing quite well. One reason is that for the last month and a half, I’ve been spending my evenings/weekends at a second, seasonal job.
I also now have a boyfriend that lives with me, and that’s been really cutting down on costs – not to mention making me happier in all sorts of other ways. So in the end, I have a nice apartment, a wonderful boyfriend, and enough left over to make this movie.
I’m in good shape guys. All that’s left now is to make a kick ass movie!
