amorphous face said:
I am sure you were probably paying him very little and paying him in black with no benefits.
I don't know what you mean "very little". I was paying, what i advertised and what was demanded of the person.
If you mean to say, that i was not gracious enough to pay heightened "gringo" rates. yes, you are correct. I don't like to pay "Gringo" rates.
And I did not put a gun on anyone's head to work for me for a "potentially low" salary or to work in black for me.
Its like " hey, this what i need to be done, this is what I pay, no paper work, just take payment every week and regard it as a part time work..are you interested?"
Lot of times, I have employed people in USA for part time work in the kitchen etc or help my old parents who lived there. Even despite it being a modern country, you don't draw a contract for such work! Their was no contracts and mostly those people who used to come for such work were illegals, who came on a 3 month tourist visa to USA and stayed on there for rest of thier lives with no papers . Thats the way to go sometimes. It benefits both parties.
amorphous face said:
You yelled back. You both abused each other.
This seems to be from the perspective of a employee. Though you are not completely right in the allegation, but "this was the last straw which broke the camel's back". The "camel" being me, here. This was not the first instance when I found the employee doing something morally wrong and had been given enough warnings. I do not employ people to get abused or allow my country to be abused because I catch the person stealing etc.
Though, I have no business to stop someone's salary. However their is a famous saying, " some people are best dealt with when flogged not with talks!"
I have done the same thing in USA as well. Once I left my old parent with a helper for a week in NY. And the helper did not give food to my parent for a week and was busy partying. I stopped her salary for 3 months about 1000 us$. She threatened that she would get me shot, she threatened to go to court, she threatened to go to police. i held my ground. I ultimately paid up but taught her a lesson. A lesson which she would not forget for a long time and take the job seriously.
My problem here in BA is that despite spending so much time, I am not very good in speaking Spanish and to communicate with the police or some government agency if it went that far. Thats the reason I decided to pay up. ( and also because I felt sorry for the poverty of the person despite being abused by the same person!) Else to be honest, I am very thick skinned and have load full of guts. I was ready to take the employee on and face the Afip or the police or a gang of criminals. I excel in such challenges and ready to face the consequences. Often I am told I am like a bull or a lion who strikes head on, on the face...and should learn to be cunning like a fox, behind the back, as thats always a more safer option. Go figure.
I'm a porteño but there's no porteño in Ceviche's current misfortune.
