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I accepted a job offer with a specific wage/commission, but now corporate is changing the commission? Help!?

• I went into an interview around 3 weeks ago, and during the interview, my interviewer said that the position I was interviewing for paid on a draw commission basis - I would either be paid my hourly wage of $11/hr OR I would be paid based on the 10% commission that I receive from sales, whichever turned out to be higher at the end of the pay period. About a week later after doing a few more interviews, I receive a call from the Assistant Manager and she tells me they are offering $9.80 base rate plus 10% commission on top (to which I accepted). I confirmed this offer with my HR representative through an email conversation, specifically outlining in the email the difference between the offer my original department manager had given me (draw commission) versus the new offer that I received from the assistant manager (base + commission). The HR representative confirmed that the new offer was the correct one. This is the only EVIDENCE that I have, is my HR rep's confirmation of my rate/commission through our emails. After working a few days, I am told that I am getting paid $9.80/hr OR 10% commission of my sales, which obviously is not the same as the offer that was confirmed by HR. I asked HR about this and they said it was "too late" and that paperwork had already been filed with my rate/commission plan on it. I asked to see the paperwork because I didn't sign anything, and they tell me that I cannot see my papers and there is no employment contract. I could either take or leave the job. What should I do??

• Answer:

  if they treat you like this now , just wait till you work for them , it ain't going tooooooo get better . sounds like typical employer treatment of no respect for employee . and switch and bait we go to work to make money , and not to have money taken away from us with slick double talk . i suggest to walk away from these rascals and show them who's the real boss . make your own future and find a decent place to work , at least honest ones , and i know how hard that is to find but at least you have a reason to walk away from this type of b.s. there are times when employers have a hard time to find employees ( good ones ) . you can negotiate this , or at least try again, stand firm and be ready to walk away . be nice to them as they don't deserve to see you in a state where they control you . you can get what they promised, and if they don't, i'm positive you can get better even if you have to live in a better place . you might even have legal recourse , but you need proof . if they fail to deliver you might be entitled to damages of some kind , just speculating but try and inquire about those rights . ok now , i read lucy's answer below mine , she states her answer in a cold way , and that's how some people approached life and some problems , but the real fact is that we have power we don't even know, or someone tries to intimidate us to stop us ( really mean people if you know how things really work ) . your interviewer stated you a wage and that's what they have to keep , period . non negotiable because that's what they said . here's a point of interest , i wonder how much there offering new employees and how much are others there already getting paid ? if you can ask them that you may have one more leg for your defence . and if they don't want to tell you than guess what , yap your still dealing with rascals. how will you feel working with others that make more than you , it's better to negotiate this now because lucy is correct that after the fact can work in there favour , but it does not make them right , at least morally right . another point to consider is this company's finance's , they have to be competitive and be cost effective but if they are profitable and are stingy with some employees than i would be care full cause i've seen companies favour some employees and give them more pay when they don't deserve it . i just had one more thought for work situations , in some cases , not many , very rare , but if you get a job with low pay or just work for no pay in exchange for training and you see a good opportunity and pay out at the end than that is something to consider , but this situation does not appear to be so . here's another approache you can take with them , accept the pay offer whatever it is if they accept your terms , and those would be to increase your pay to $11.00 after 60 days , as the interviewer first stated , and get this in writing singned . this would also give you a chance to see how they are going to treat you, and at the end of 60 days you will decide on your own if you want to still work for them. if you don't want this $9.80 an hour do you think someone else will ? i don't think so . unless there sure they can get a lot of commission work. you have to make a living and $9.80 an hour does not buy much .