This is where we are... Van is dead and buried. We've been using a farm truck for a dollar an hour pay cut. (with the understanding that the "rental and maintenance fee", as they called it would be advanced for the winter lay off. (We are currently paying off an advance from when we first got here).
The weather got bad and the ground was too wet so the winter lay off came 10 days early (that is like a months rent in lost pay). Now we can't have the truck for the winter, when Dave goes in for his last cheque they are going to drive him home and then pick him up again when they call him back Feb 1st.
He has a mere 24 hours pay coming and there is supposedly a "thank you card" there waiting too. The boss is Australia with his wife and kids for a month and his dad is supposed to write the last cheque call when it is ready and drive Dave home. Dad does not like Dave so much, and constantly berates how his son is running the business (Apparently this son will never measure up to the son that died)
Unless there is 2 grand in the thank you card we are totally screwed. None of those extra hours spent harvesting those trees resulted in overtime as farm workers are exempt from time and a half. The final tree count was 99,484 trees these will sell for $8-$12 (plus there were all the apples, pears, peaches, cherries and plums and the juice apples) 2 grand would he a HUGE bonus for 5 months work.
On the upside, we don't need a truck for the winter we won't be able to afford to go anywhere anyway (including the grocery store, which I can walk to should the opportunity arise)... and this way we won't be paying $50 a week for a truck we are not driving "on account".
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